Sina Madani, MD, PhD, FAMIA

Sina Madani, MD, PhD, is a clinical informatician and principal knowledge engineer with HealthIT, specializing in clinical terminologies, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. His current work focuses on prompt engineering and LLM-based applications, for clinical data abstraction. He received his MD from Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics in Houston. He is an inaugural Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and a Diplomate of the inaugural class of AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professionals (ACHIP). His research interests include AI-driven clinical data extraction, prompt engineering and LLM application development, AI-enabled clinical content management, and knowledge engineering. He is particularly interested in clinical ontology development and patient graph construction to enhance clinical context representation, semantic integration, and context-aware retrieval and reasoning in LLM-based applications using longitudinal electronic health record data.