Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD
ns2@medicine.wisc.edu
UW Medical Foundation Centennial Building
1685 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-2281
Administrative assistant
Lisa Beierschmitt
labeiers@medicine.wisc.edu
Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, is the associate dean for clinical trials. She works directly with faculty, departments and centers to assess opportunities and priorities for creating the most efficient and user-friendly environment for clinical trials.
As the research director of the Wisconsin Medicine Institute for Clinical Trials, a joint venture of the School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health, Safdar works in partnership with Betsy Nugent, MSPH, CCRP, the director of the Wisconsin Medicine Institute for Clinical Trials and UW Health’s chief clinical research officer. The institute focuses on expanding clinical trials on the UW–Madison campus.
She is a professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Disease, with affiliate appointments in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She also serves as the director of investigator-initiated & multisite research for the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
Safdar is a renowned clinician and researcher with expertise in clinical trials and infection prevention. Among other accolades, in 2017 she earned a prestigious President’s Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.
Safdar earned her medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College in Pakistan in 1995, followed by a residency in medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. She has also completed fellowships in infectious disease and women’s health, in addition to earning a master’s degree in population health sciences and PhD in clinical research at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.