Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at 平特五不中, Associate Academic Professor of Mila-Quebec AI Institute, and affiliated scientist at Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospital. She is society officer of聽Canadian Operational Research Society聽and Director of Artificial Intelligence in Family Medicine (AIFM).
Dr. Rahimi is FRQS Junior 1 Research Scholar, and her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Sant茅 (FRQS), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Roche Canada, Brocher Foundation (Switzerland), and the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR)-Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
With an interdisciplinary background, Dr. Rahimi is interested in the development聽and implementation of clinical decision support tools and patient decision aids, as well as integrating human-centered AI tools in primary health care. She specializes in computational intelligence, decision making, and applied operational research in health care.
She completed her postdoctoral training at Family and Emergency Medicine Department of Universit茅 Laval, and her doctorate studies (in Industrial and System Engineering with a focus on health care systems) at Mechanical Engineering Department of Universit茅 Laval. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships, fellowships, and awards among them the 2015 Canada Women in Engineering award of IEEE.
