Dr Siddiq Anwar

Dr. Anwar is a consultant nephrologist with over two decades of clinical experience in kidney disease, renal transplantation, and complex kidney care. He trained through the South Thames Renal Rotation in the UK and completed advanced nephrology and transplant fellowships at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), the International Society of Nephrology, and the American Society of Nephrology.

His research at ADIA Lab sits at the boundary between clinical medicine and data science. Working with colleagues at Khalifa University and MBZUAI through RenAIssance, a healthcare-focused AI research platform, he focuses on developing decision-support tools that can detect disease earlier, improve outcomes, and function reliably across populations with limited access to specialist care. A central focus is building AI tools that are designed from the outset for the Global South health systems where disease burden is high, but data infrastructure, specialist capacity, and resources are constrained.

A particular interest is why models that perform well in one setting so often fail in another and how clinical AI can be built to be more robust from the start. This work is grounded in the UAE's unique position as a convergence point for clinical data, AI research capacity, and partnerships across the Global South. His goal is to close the gap between what clinical AI can do in controlled research setting and what it delivers for patients who need it most.