Portrait of Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi

Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi

Associate Academic Member
samira.rahimi@mila.quebec
Assistant Professor, McGill University, Department of Dental Medicine
Research Topics
AI and Healthcare
AI in Health
Data Mining
Medical Machine Learning
Optimization
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Biography

Dr. Samira A. Rahimi, B.Eng, PhD, is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in AI and Advanced Digital Primary Health Care. She is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences at McGill University, Co-Director of McGill’s Collaborative for AI and Society (McCAIS), and an Associate Academic Member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. She also serves as Research Co-Director of the General Practice Residency (GPR) program in dentistry at the Jewish General Hospital.

With an interdisciplinary background, her research, supported by national and international funding, focuses on developing and implementing advanced digital health technologies—including AI-enabled tools—to improve primary health care. She is particularly committed to improving care for vulnerable and underserved populations, ensuring that innovation benefits everyone.

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 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2022 Marjorie Bowman and Robert Choplin New Investigator Award, an award that recognizes exceptional contributions by emerging investigators in the field of primary care research.

Current Students

Leonardo dos Santos Alixandrino
Research Intern - McGill University
leonardo.dossantosalixandrino@mila.quebec
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Sydney Keyamo
Master's Research - McGill University
sydney.keyamo@mila.quebec
Haowei Qiu
Collaborating researcher - McGill University
Co-supervisor :
Jackie Cheung
haowei.qiu@mila.quebec
Chetan Shirvankar
PhD - McGill University
chetan.shirvankar@mila.quebec
Ting Wang
PhD - McGill University
ting.wang@mila.quebec

Publications

Primary care physicians' perceptions of artificial intelligence systems in the care of adolescents' mental health
Pooria Ghadiri
Mark J. Yaffe
Alayne Mary Adams
Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi
Given that mental health problems in adolescence may have lifelong impacts, the role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in identifying and ma… (see more)naging these issues is important. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may offer solutions to the current challenges involved in mental health care. We therefore explored PCPs’ challenges in addressing adolescents’ mental health, along with their attitudes towards using AI to assist them in their tasks. We used purposeful sampling to recruit PCPs for a virtual Focus Group (FG). The virtual FG lasted 75 minutes and was moderated by two facilitators. A life transcription was produced by an online meeting software. Transcribed data was cleaned, followed by a priori and inductive coding and thematic analysis. We reached out to 35 potential participants via email. Seven agreed to participate, and ultimately four took part in the FG. PCPs perceived that AI systems have the potential to be cost-effective, credible, and useful in collecting large amounts of patients’ data, and relatively credible. They envisioned AI assisting with tasks such as diagnoses and establishing treatment plans. However, they feared that reliance on AI might result in a loss of clinical competency. PCPs wanted AI systems to be user-friendly, and they were willing to assist in achieving this goal if it was within their scope of practice and they were compensated for their contribution. They stressed a need for regulatory bodies to deal with medicolegal and ethical aspects of AI and clear guidelines to reduce or eliminate the potential of patient harm. This study provides the groundwork for assessing PCPs’ perceptions of AI systems’ features and characteristics, potential applications, possible negative aspects, and requirements for using them. A future study of adolescents’ perspectives on integrating AI into mental healthcare might contribute a fuller understanding of the potential of AI for this population. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12875-024-02417-1.
2024-06-12
BMC Primary Care (published)
doi.org
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Karina Dahl Steffensen
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Maya Fakhfakh
Asmaou Dalil
Owolabi Bouba
Gloria Acakpo
Ange Ayivi-Vinz
Mirjam Le Musabyimana
Paula Riganti
Juan Victor
Ariel Franco
Victoria Yanzi
Carolina Carrara
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Karin Kopitowski
Marguerite Tracy
Rachel Thompson
Danielle Muscat
Carissa Bonner
Tammy Hoffmann
Heather Shepherd
France Le ´gare ´
Dawn Stacey
Pierre-Gerlier Forest
Patrick Archambault
Laura Boland
Marie-France Coutu
Annie LeBlanc
Krystina Lewis
Holly Witteman
Angelina Dois
Alejandra Martı ´nez
Marcela Gonza ´lez-Agu ¨ero
Gabriela Soto
Andrea Rioseco
Solange Campos
Claudia Bustamante
Irma Vargas
Bettina Knudsen
Jeanette Finderup
Marlene Willemann
Wu ¨rgler
Karina Olling
Nora Moumjid
Marie-Anne Durand
Julien Carretier
Elodie Charuel
Jocelyne Daumer
Julie Haesebaert
Sandrine Hild
Julien Mancini
Giovanna Marsico
Ce ´dric Rat
Yves Zerbib
Yves-Marie Vincent
François Blot
Christiane Bieber
Anna Levke
Bru ¨tt
Marie-Luise Dierks
Jo ¨rg Dirmaier
Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
Wolfgang Eich
Friedemann Geiger
David Klemperer
Klaus Koch
Mirjam Ko
Isabelle Scholl
O ´scar
Brito Fernandes
Ma ´rta Pe
Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi
Nam Nguyen
Mahasti Alizadeh
Dan Poenaru
Dan Poenaru
Dulce Alarco n-Yaquetto
Aldo De Ferrari
K Germa n ; Aldona
Joanna Jankowska
Martyna Matjanowska
Borowczyk
Kevin Selby
Marie-Anne Durand
Christiane Bieber
O ´scar
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Anna Levke
Irma Vargas
Angelina Dois
Karina Olling
Marie-Anne Durand
Vikki Entwistle
Sam Finnikin
2022-05-31
Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen (published)
doi.org
Moving shared decision-making forward in Iran
Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi
Nam Nguyen
Mahasti Alizadeh
Dan Poenaru
2022-05-31
Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen (published)
doi.org