Azra Bihorac MD, MS, FCCM, FASN

Dr. Azra Bihorac, MD, MS, FASN, FCCM, is the Senior Associate Dean for Research Affairs at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She is also the R. Glenn Davis Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Physiology & Functional Genomics, and Director of the Intelligent Critical Care Center (IC3 ) at UF; a multi-disciplinary center focused on developing and providing sustainable support and leadership for transformative medical AI research, education, and clinical applications to advance patients’ health in critical and acute care medicine. The center addresses an unprecedented opportunity for world-leading ambient, immersive, and artificial intelligence (AI2) research and innovation to transform the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment for critically and acutely ill patients using the multimodal clinical and research data and resources stemming from UF Health (UFH), one of Florida’s largest health care systems.

Her vision is to develop tools for intelligent human-centered health care that deliver optimized care tailored to a patient’s “personal clinical profile” using digital data. Through her work in national and international professional organizations in nephrology and critical care medicine, she has advocated for women physicians and scientists, promoting their equality and recognition in health care leadership, research, and education. She completed her MD at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, internal medicine residency at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, and University of Florida, fellowships in critical care medicine and nephrology, and her Master's in clinical science atthe  University of Florida.