Rahimi Research Lab

Affiliation : 

• Department of Family Medicine, McGill University.
• Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital.

Associate member:

• Mila-Quebec AI Institute.
• The College of Family Physicians of Canada.
• Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi, BEng, PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in AI and Advanced Digital Primary Health Care and an Assistant Professor at McGill University and Mila-Quebec AI Institute.

Prof. Rahimi is an affiliated scientist at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospital, past elected President of the Canadian Operational Research Society, and Co-Director of McGill’s Collaborative for Artificial Intelligence and Society (McCAIS).

With an interdisciplinary background, her research is about the development and implementation of advanced digital health technologies such as AI-enabled decision support tools in primary health care. Her research is dedicated to enhancing the prevention and management of diseases with a particular emphasis on vulnerable populations (e.g., older adults, those with chronic diseases).

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 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2022 New Investigator Primary Care Research Award of North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), an award that recognizes exceptional contributions by emerging investigators in the field of primary care research.