Lawrence Afrin

Dr. Lawrence Afrin is an American physician.

Dr. Afrin studied computer science at Clemson University, earning a B.S. in 1984, and then an M.D. in 1988 at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He served on the MUSC faculty from 1995 to 2014, when he joined the University of Minnesota as Professor of Medicine in Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation. He now works in Armonk, New York.

Dr. Afrin is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as a 2016 book for broader audiences, Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and the Modern Epidemics of Chronic Illness and Medical Complexity.