Hutan Ashrafian

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Hutan Ashrafian
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Alma mater
Occupation(s)Academic
surgeon
Employer(s) British American Tobacco (2020-2021)
Flagship Pioneering
Known forAshrafian thoracotomy, surgical procedure, and the Ashrafian sign aortic regurgitation

Hutan Ashrafian is an academic, cardiothoracic surgeon, robotic surgeon, bariatric surgeon, computational biologist, immunologist, entrepreneur, historian, writer, martial artist and philosopher. [1] [2] [3] He is the current chief scientific officer of Preemptive Health and Medicine at Flagship Pioneering. [4]

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Ashrafian thoracotomy, surgical procedure, and the Ashrafian sign aortic regurgitation are named after him. [5] He introduced the AIonAI law for artificial intelligence. [6]

Early life and education

Ashrafian attended the Westminster School and then University College London, where he completed Bachelor of Science in immunology and cell pathology and subsequently a medical degree (MD) in 2000. [4] Following London-based surgical training in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, robotic surgery , general surgery with specialist training in bariatric surgery, in 2015, he finished his Wellcome Trust PhD in computational biology and surgery from Imperial College London and was appointed National Institute for Health and Care Research clinical lecturer. [4]

Ashrafian also holds a Master of Business Administration from Warwick Business School, graduated in 2017. [4]

Career

Ashrafian was appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London in 2017. [4]

In 2017, he co-founded Oxford Medical Products along with Jan Czenurska to treat overweight and obesity with a novel hydrogel. [7]

In September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he became the chief medical officer of British American Tobacco where he developed a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine with its subsidiary KBP, and served there until August 2021. [8]

In August 2021, he was appointed as the chief scientific officer of Flagship Pioneering. [9] [10]

Ashrafian is Professor of Research Impact at Leeds University Business School and also Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. [11] [12] [13] He has worked on documentaries for BBC and Smithsonian Channel. [14] [15]

Research

Ashrafian's research is focused on a wide programme ranging from life sciences, philosophy of science and artificial intelligence, ancient history and art. In the life sciences these focus on mechanistic and clinical therapeutic solutions in obesity, cancer, metabolic syndrome, gut microbiome dysfunction, and musculoskeletal dysfunction. [16] In a research published in 2014, he concluded that social networking programs can help reduce the obesity. [17]

Philosophical contributions include those in areas of physiology, the Simulation Argument, temporal paradoxes in theoretical physics and artificial intelligence interactions (AIonAI law) and psychiatry, AI and politics and the Turing Test. [6] In artificial intelligence field, Ashrafian is one of the authors of STARD-AI protocol, [18] a reporting guideline for artificial intelligence, and QUADAS-AI, a quality assessment tool for artificial intelligence. [19] He is considered one of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence. [20]

In ancient history his work includes books on contextualizing historical events and figures such as Alexander the Great and Xenophon with accurate timelines and scientific explanations of occurrences. [21] This extends in separating myth from legend in classical Greek and Homeric poetry and explaining the medical diseases prominent historical characters such as the Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Akhenaten, Julius Caesar and Henry VIII's multiple marriages and behaviour which have subsequently featured in documentaries where Ashrafian is interviewed. [22] [21]

His 2012 work on the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, theorized that the Pharaoh Tutankhamun had temporal epilepsy that led to his early demise. [23] [12] [15] The book he co-authored with his student Francesco Maria Galassi, named Julius Caesar's Disease: A New Diagnosis. [24] [25] [26] was reviewed by Spyros Retsas of the British Society for the History of Medicine and Neurological Sciences . [27] [28]

In art, he has worked on identifying diseases, and previously unrecognized anatomical and pathological features in over 60 famous artworks that includes those in the renaissance, and ancient art. This includes the work of Leonardo da Vinci, where he identified a hernia in the famous image of the Vitruvian man. [29]

Awards and recognition

Bibliography

Books

Selected publications

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