About

SensAI is a Lahore-based team of physicians, computer scientists, and entrepreneurs united by one belief: no one should die of a treatable illness simply because expert advice is out of reach. In Pakistan, half of the population will never meet a doctor, and for those who do, care is largely fragmented, event-triggered, and often delivered by under-trained providers– contributing to half a million medication-related deaths each year and a 15 % drag on national GDP.

To close this gap, we are building a Synthetic Medical Intelligence (SMI) named SensAI. Trained on locally sourced, physician-augmented encounters– beginning with Urdu and Punjabi consultations in a busy Lahore clinic– SensAI already records, transcribes, and drafts GP-quality notes with more than 95 % accuracy. Our roadmap links these notes to problem lists, evidence-based care plans, labs, pharmacies, imaging centers, and patients' smartphones, creating a fully closed loop of primary care.

Our vision is bold yet practical: a platform that lets anyone with a high-school education deliver primary-care advice on par with a seasoned GP after just three days of training. By scaling to 150 000 curated encounters in six months, SensAI will evolve into a self-improving assistant capable of triaging common conditions in real time and escalating complex cases to physicians–an approach that could reclaim one-third of the economic loss caused by inadequate primary care in Pakistan and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Backed by deep ties to Lahore's medical-school network, LUMS, and collaborators in the US and China, we have already deployed SensAI in live clinical settings and demonstrated its impact. With an additional US $2.5 million in growth capital, we will expand our team, process the remaining dataset, and bring SensAI's next-generation capabilities to millions–transforming community health in Pakistan and, ultimately, across the globe.

The Team

Basmaa Ali

Basmaa Ali

MD MBA

Primary Care Physician • Serial Entrepreneur • Hiker

  • Resident Scientist at LUMS
  • Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
  • Works in Big Data in Medicine
  • MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Founder: Zanjabee Integrative Primary Care in Boston
Nasir Awan

Nasir Awan

MBBS FCPS

Neurosurgeon & Scientist • Serial Entrepreneur • Dreamer

  • Professor of Neurosurgery
  • Resident Scientist at School of Science and Engineering
  • US-trained in Functional Neurosurgery and brain implants
  • Founder of Spinacure, an integrated-spine startup
Usman Bhatty

Usman Bhatty

MBBS MBA

Marketing Guru • Operations Exec • Motorcyclist

  • COO at Nutrico Morinaga
  • Adjunct Faculty in Marketing at LUMS
  • MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management
  • MBA from LUMS, MBBS from King Edward Medical College
Zafar Khan

Zafar Khan

BS

Serial Entrepreneur • Tech Whiz • Equestrian

  • CEO, Sofizar
  • CEO, Daria Technologies
  • CEO, Engro Digital
  • BS, Caltech
Suleman Shahid

Suleman Shahid

PhD

UX/UI Expert • Traveler & Dreamer

  • Assoc. Professor of CS at LUMS
  • Design-driven innovation & change management
  • PhD in HCI from University of Tilburg
Adrian Koren

Adrian Koren

MS

Software Dev Magician • Traveler

  • Former Sr Principal Engineer at Autodesk
  • 20+ years building apps & platforms (Vela, Iron Mountain)
  • MS in CS from University of Massachusetts
Katie Shields

Katie Shields

MBA

Security & Compliance Lead • Engineer at Heart • Hiker

  • Former Product Manager at Autodesk
  • Expertise in Security & Compliance
  • MBA from MIT Sloan • BS Engineering from MIT
Wenhsiu Hassan

Wenhsiu Hassan

MS

Business Dev • Techie • Photographer

  • Sr VP Tech Delivery at Bank of America
  • Space shuttle materials engineer at Boeing
  • Retinoblastoma researcher at Children’s Hospital LA
  • MS Bioengineering from Caltech • BS Physiology from Peking University

The Advisory Board

Thomas Heldt

Thomas Heldt

PhD

Advisor

  • W.M. Keck Career Dev Prof, MIT
  • Head, Integrative Neuromonitoring & Critical Care Informatics
  • PhD in Med Eng & Med Physics, MIT (2004)
  • MPhil Physics, Yale (1997)
Kirsten Meisinger

Kirsten Meisinger

MD

Advisor

  • Faculty, Dept. of Family Medicine, Harvard Med School
  • Director of Provider Engagement, Cambridge Health Alliance
  • MD, Case Western Reserve • BA, Brown University
Tania Aidruss

Tania Aidruss

MBA

Advisor

  • CEO, DGlobal
  • Chairperson, Digital Pakistan Authority
  • Senior Executive at Google
  • MBA, MIT Sloan • BS, Brandeis University
William Slaughter

William Slaughter

MD

Advisor

  • Faculty, Dept of Psychiatry, Harvard Med School
  • Psychiatry Residency, Cambridge Health Alliance
  • MD & BA, University of Washington
Agha Ali Raza

Agha Ali Raza

PhD

Advisor

  • Asst. Professor of CS at LUMS
  • Founding Director, Center for Speech & Language Technologies
  • PhD in Machine Learning from CMU