Dr. Asad K. Niazi, MD, MPH: Medical Reviewer

Dr. Asad K. Niazi, MD, MPH, an internal medicine physician, reviews the medical content of articles written for the PlexusDx blog under our editorial policy. He also co-founded and leads Lone Star Virtual Health, the company that provides PlexusDx's clinicians. That gives him a business relationship with PlexusDx. His review checks medical accuracy and safety, and it is not an independent review.

This page sets out that relationship first, then his background, how to check his credentials, and what his review covers and what it does not.

His relationship with PlexusDx

A reviewer's business ties can matter when you decide how much weight to give his review, so we list them here.

• Lone Star Virtual Health: Dr. Niazi is its co-founder and chief executive officer. Lone Star Virtual Health is PlexusDx's provider team: its clinicians decide whether to prescribe treatment for people who enroll through PlexusDx. Dr. Niazi is one of those clinicians: he sometimes reviews the medical intake of someone who enrolls through PlexusDx and decides whether to prescribe.
• Payment and financial interests: Dr. Niazi is not paid for reviewing PlexusDx's articles, by PlexusDx, Lone Star Virtual Health or anyone else. Apart from Lone Star Virtual Health's work as PlexusDx's provider team, he has no ownership or other financial interest in PlexusDx.

Because his company provides PlexusDx's clinicians, and he is one of them, his review is not independent of PlexusDx. Every article that shows his review names his role at Lone Star Virtual Health next to his name.

Background

As chief executive officer of Lone Star Virtual Health, Dr. Niazi leads corporate strategy, partner development, clinical operations and the design of physician-led care models for digital-health companies. Lone Star Virtual Health describes itself as a "physician-only national medical group."

He began working in telemedicine during his internal medicine training. He later held senior clinical and administrative positions, including Chief Medical Officer roles, at organizations in metabolic health, weight management, preventive medicine and longevity. His clinical focus includes obesity medicine and nutrition.

• Medical degree: MD from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso, 2020
• Public health degree: MPH in epidemiology, through a dual-degree pathway with UTHealth School of Public Health
• Internal medicine training: internship at Methodist Health System in Dallas, 2020 to 2021, then residency at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, 2022 to 2024
• Undergraduate degree: Texas A&M University in College Station, summa cum laude

Licenses and identifiers

You can check each of these yourself.

• Medical licenses: Dr. Niazi is licensed to practice medicine in multiple states. DocInfo, run by the Federation of State Medical Boards, shows a physician's current licenses and any action a state medical board has taken.
• Specialty: Internal medicine.
• National Provider Identifier (NPI): 1972123032. You can look up any NPI in the NPPES NPI Registry, run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

What he reviews, and what he does not

Dr. Niazi reviews an article's medical content:

• drug facts, such as what a medicine is approved for, how it is taken and what its trials found
• safety information, such as warnings, side effects and who should not take a medicine
• other clinical statements, such as who may be a candidate for treatment and when to call a doctor

He reviews these for accuracy and safety. His name is added only after any changes he asks for have been made.

He does not review prices or savings offers; insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or tax rules; or PlexusDx's business terms, such as its plans, billing and cancellation. Those are checked against their own sources, as our editorial policy describes.

His review is not medical advice for you, and reading an article he reviewed does not make him your doctor.

What his name and review date on an article mean

When Dr. Niazi has reviewed an article, its byline says "Medically reviewed by Dr. Asad K. Niazi, MD, MPH, CEO of Lone Star Virtual Health, the company that provides PlexusDx's clinicians" and links to this page. The "How we made this page" section at the end of the article says "Dr. Asad K. Niazi, MD, MPH, reviewed the medical content on" followed by the date, and then states his business relationship with PlexusDx.

That date tells you which version he reviewed. If we change an article's medical content after his review, his name comes off until he has reviewed the change. Updates outside his review, such as a new price, leave his review date as it was, so the article's "Updated" date can be later.

If an article does not show his name, he has not reviewed that version. He does not write the articles; Jay Hastings is their writer. An article quotes Dr. Niazi only if the words are his own.

This page was drafted with AI tools. Dr. Niazi read it and approved its wording on October 19, 2026, and Jay Hastings approved it on October 19, 2026.