Our Team

The People Behind
MedX Clinical Research.

MedX exists because tomorrow's medicine is being built on populations that don't look like the people who need it most. We're fixing that — one trusted physician, one underrepresented community at a time.

Dr. Hammad Qureshi, MD

Dr. Hammad Qureshi, MD

Principal Investigator Founder, Creekside Family Practice · Clinical Assistant Professor, UTMB

The Physician

Dr. Hammad Qureshi is a board-certified family medicine physician and the founder of Creekside Family Practice in Cypress, Texas. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), he continues to train the next generation of physicians while guiding thousands of families through chronic disease management — and has built one of the most highly-rated primary care practices in west Houston.

The Teacher

His teaching has been recognized by both his peers and his students — earning him UTMB's Resident Teacher Award (2016) and Faculty of the Year Award (2017). He continues to serve as Clinical Assistant Professor at UTMB Galveston today, hosting medical students and Family Medicine residents at Creekside as part of their training rotations.

As Our Principal Investigator

As MedX's Principal Investigator, Dr. Qureshi brings this depth of patient relationship and clinical experience to clinical research — ensuring that the families he already cares for have access to the next generation of medicine, delivered with the same trust and continuity they expect from him.

Patient Rating

4.7/5

1,200+ Google reviews — one of the highest-rated primary care practices in west Houston.

The Practice

Dr. Qureshi practices a patient-centered, holistically-minded approach to medicine — addressing root causes rather than just treating symptoms, with deep emphasis on preventive care, chronic disease management, and behavioral health. His practice has earned the trust of the community in a way the numbers reflect: 4.7 / 5 stars across 1,200+ Google reviews, one of the highest-rated primary care practices in the Cypress / west Houston area.

Creekside Family Practice serves Cypress, Spring, Tomball, and the greater west Houston corridor, treating chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and mental health concerns — the same conditions where breakthrough clinical research is moving fastest.

Credentials

Medical DegreeLahore Medical & Dental College

ResidencyUTMB Galveston (Christus St. Elizabeth) — Family Medicine

Board CertificationAmerican Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

Academic AppointmentClinical Assistant Professor, UTMB

Dawood Kanchwala

Dawood Kanchwala

Founder

The Builder

Dawood Kanchwala has spent more than half a decade building healthcare technology alongside the clinicians who use it. As a senior product manager for AI-driven products at a Fortune 50 healthcare organization, he led the launch of a clinician safety and decision-support platform now relied on by more than 12,000 clinicians — work that meant sitting in clinics, mapping how care actually happens, and turning what he heard into software physicians adopt rather than tolerate.

The Discipline

That is the same discipline he brings to MedX. Research inside a busy primary care practice only works if it moves with the rhythm of the clinic instead of competing with it, so MedX builds its processes the way he builds products — mapped to the physician's workflow, measured, and refined until the friction is gone, with AI and automation carrying the administrative weight so the clinical team's attention stays on the person in the room.

The Promise

All of it protects the part that matters most. Every study is a promise to the people who agreed to be part of it, and that promise is only kept if the data reaching the sponsor is complete, accurate, and strong enough to move a medicine forward for the communities that need it.

Built With Clinicians

12,000+

clinicians rely on a platform he led — built by sitting in clinics and mapping how care actually happens.

In His Words

Dawood Kanchwala has spent more than half a decade building healthcare technology alongside the clinicians who use it. As a senior product manager for AI-driven products at a Fortune 50 healthcare organization, he led the launch of a clinician safety and decision-support platform now relied on by more than 12,000 clinicians — work that meant sitting in clinics, mapping how care actually happens, and turning what he heard into software physicians adopt rather than tolerate.

Background

FocusAI-driven healthcare product & clinical operations

ExperienceEnterprise clinical platforms, built with physicians

EducationB.B.A., McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

Based InHouston, Texas

Closing the Clinical Trial Gap in Houston.

Houston is one of the most ethnically and economically diverse metros in America. Over four million people — Hispanic, Black, South Asian, working-class — represent the actual future of American medicine.

And yet: for decades, clinical research has happened to this population without happening for it. Pharmaceutical sponsors run trials at university medical centers and large academic hospitals, often missing the patients who live across the rest of the city. The numbers reflect it. Less than 8% of national clinical trial participants are Hispanic. Less than 5% are Black. The conditions these communities carry disproportionately — type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease — are exactly the conditions where breakthrough research is moving fastest. But the new therapies coming out of those trials are being tested on populations that don't look like the people who need them most.

That gap is what MedX exists to close.

We partner directly with trusted, independent physicians whose patients already live in these communities. We bring sponsor-funded clinical trials into the practices these patients already visit — eliminating the access barriers, the long drives, the unfamiliar facilities, the cultural disconnect. We compensate participants fairly. We respect their time. And we make sure the next generation of approved medicines is tested on the populations who will eventually take them.

This isn't about making clinical research more efficient. It's about making it more honest. The people who have been most underserved by medicine deserve to lead the next chapter of it — and we're building MedX so they can.

Want to be part of what's next?

Whether you're a patient curious about a trial, a physician interested in partnership, or a sponsor looking for a true community site — we'd love to hear from you.