Physician leadership with an operator’s understanding of scale.

Lone Star was built by physicians who have worked inside high-volume virtual care and understand that clinical quality, response time, patient communication, and business execution must function together.

Our leadership

Clinical credibility. Operational accountability.

Every partnership is supported by physician executives who understand the patient, provider, platform, pharmacy, and founder perspectives.

Dr. Asad K. Niazi, MD, MPH

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Asad K. Niazi is a physician executive and digital-health operator whose work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, epidemiology, population health, and national telemedicine operations.

He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology through a dual-degree training pathway with UTHealth School of Public Health. That combination shaped a prevention-oriented approach focused not only on individual treatment decisions, but on building systems that improve access, consistency, and long-term outcomes across populations.

Dr. Niazi began working in telemedicine during postgraduate internal-medicine training and has accumulated a decade of virtual-care experience. He later served in senior clinical and administrative leadership, including Chief Medical Officer roles, supporting organizations across metabolic health, weight management, preventive medicine, and longevity.

At Lone Star, he leads corporate strategy, partner development, clinical operations, and the design of scalable physician-led care models for emerging and established digital-health companies.

Dr. Abhishek Patel, DO

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Abhishek Patel is a triple board-certified physician executive with specialty training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and formal certification in Obesity Medicine.

His clinical perspective bridges obesity medicine, metabolic health, physical function, recovery, preventive care, and longevity. He has extensive experience serving virtual-care companies as a physician, medical advisor, and clinical leader, helping translate complex care pathways into responsible, scalable telemedicine workflows.

Dr. Patel maintains active physician licensure across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, giving Lone Star exceptional national clinical reach and redundancy.

As Chief Medical Officer, he oversees clinical governance, physician credentialing, protocol development, quality assurance, provider performance, patient-safety standards, and responsible expansion across Lone Star’s national operations.

Our operating philosophy

High-volume telemedicine should still feel clinically deliberate.

The goal is not to make medicine behave like a factory. The goal is to remove avoidable friction so physicians can make sound decisions quickly, communicate clearly, and escalate appropriately.

Independent judgment

No commercial objective replaces the treating physician’s responsibility to approve, deny, request more information, require synchronous care, or refer.

Prevention and population health

Well-designed intake, education, follow-up, and longitudinal workflows can turn virtual care into a more consistent preventive-health system.

Operations are clinical quality

Message ownership, documentation, routing, coverage, and escalation design directly affect safety and the patient experience.

Partner with physician leaders who understand the medicine and the business behind it.

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