Mujeeb Basit, M.D.

Biography

Mujeeb Basit, M.D., M.M.Sc., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in cardiology with a focus on risk optimization. 

Dr. Basit earned his medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine at The George Washington University. He received advanced training in cardiology through a fellowship at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and in clinical informatics through a fellowship at Harvard University. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2016. 

Dr. Basit is the Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer for UT Southwestern Health System. He serves on several UT Southwestern committees, including the Hospital EMR Workgroup, the Hospital Police Committee, and the Enterprise Data Warehouse Committee. He’s a member of the American Medical Informatics Association and the American Computing Machinery. 

Dr. Basit’s research focuses on machine learning for advanced clinical decision support, automated anomaly detection of clinical decision support failures, and double-blind clinical trials of digital health systems. He has delivered numerous presentations, contributed to the book Global Health Informatics: Principles of EHealth and MHealth to Improve Quality of Care, and published multiple academic articles. 

Personal Note

Dr. Basit’s interests outside of medicine include his family, cooking, travel, and photography.