During their 50th Annual Meeting in Phoenix, USA, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), which supports and nurtures clinicians, students, teachers and patients around the world as they pursue primary care research, awarded Dr. Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi with aÌýnew investigator primary care research award.
The Marjorie Bowman and Robert Choplin New Investigator Award is to acknowledge outstanding work of a new primary care investigator whose achievements are based upon their independent scholarship and entire body of work.
Congratulations Dr. Rahimi!
Front left to right: Dr. Isabelle Vedel, Dr. Samira Rahimi and Dr. Tracie Barnett at the North American Primary Care Research Group.
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About Dr. Samira Rahimi
Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi Eng. Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Â鶹AV, 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 President-elect of Canadian Operational Research SocietyÌýand Director of Artificial Intelligence in Family Medicine.
Dr. Rahimi is FRQS Junior 1 Research Scholar, and her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (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 developmentÌýand 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.
