Vaso Nataly Rahimzadeh, Ph.D.
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Vaso Nataly Rahimzadeh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy - Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Education
- BS from University of California Berkeley
- 06/2012 - Berkeley, California
- MSc from McGill University, Experimental Medicine
- Montreal (Quebec), Canada
- PhD from McGill University, Family Medicine and Primary Care Research
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Honors & Awards
- Gordon A. Maclachlan Prize for best dissertation in the biological sciences
- (June 2020)
- McGill University
- Governor General's Gold Medal
- (June 2020)
- McGill University
- David McCutcheon Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship
- (09/2013-09/2014)
- McGill University Health Centre
- McGill Med Star Award
- (05/2019)
- McGill University Faculty of Medicine
- Best Poster Prize in Medicine and Public Health
- (05/2018)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar
- (05/2016-05/2019)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Videos
Selected Publications
- Rahimzadeh V, Peng G, Cho MK. "A mixed-methods protocol to develop and validate a stewardship maturity matrix for human genomic data in the cloud." Frontiers in Genetics. 2022;14(13) Pubmed PMID: 36313457
- Rahimzadeh V, Lawson J, Rushton G, Dove E "Leveraging Algorithms to Improve Decision-Making Workflows for Genomic Data Access and Management." Biopres & Biobank. 2022;20(5):429-435. Pubmed PMID: 35772014
- Rahimzadeh, V., Wolfert, S., Buenger, V., Campbell, C., French, R., Ludwinski, D., Weinstein, A., Barrett, C. "A systematic literature review to identify ethical, legal, and social responsibilities of nonprofit organizations when funding clinical trials in pediatric cancer." Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Sep;69(9):e29854. Pubmed PMID: 35713116
- Federico CA, Heagerty PJ, Lantos J, O'Rourke P, Rahimzadeh V, Sugarman J, Weinfurt K, Wendler D, Wilfond BS, Magnus D "Ethical and epistemic issues in the design and conduct of pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized clinical trials." Contemp Clin Trials. 2022;115 Pubmed PMID: 35176501
- Rahimzadeh, V. "Regulatory Angels and Technology Demons? Making Sense of Evolving Realities in Health Data Privacy for the Digital Age." Am J Bioeth. 2022 Jul;22(7):68-70. Pubmed PMID: 35737504
- Rahimzadeh, V., Lawson, J., Baek, J., Dove, E. S. "Automating Justice: An Ethical Responsibility of Computational Bioethics." Am J Bioeth. 2022;22(7):30-33. Pubmed PMID: 35737496
- ahimzadeh V, Friedman J, de Wert G, Knoppers BM. "Exome/Genome-Wide Testing in Newborn Screening: A Proportionate Path Forward." Front Genet. 2022;4(13) Pubmed PMID: 35860465
- Serpico, K., Rahimzadeh, V., Gelinas, L., Hartsmith, L., Lynch, H. F., Anderson, E. E. "Institutional Review Board Use of Outside Experts: A National Survey." AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2022;12(4):251-262. Pubmed PMID: 35748820
- Spector-Bagdady K, Rahimzadeh V, Jaffe K, Moreno J. "Promoting Ethical Deployment of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare." Am J Bioeth. 2022;22(5):4-7. Pubmed PMID: 35499568
- Serpico K, Rahimzadeh V, Gelinas L, Fernandez Lynch H, Anderson E. "Institutional Review Board Use of Outside Experts: What Do We Know?." Ethics& Human Research. 2022;44(2):26-32. Pubmed PMID: 35218600
- Kleiderman E, Rahimzadeh V, Knoppers B, Roy MC, Laberge AM, Ravitsky V. "The serious factor in expanded prenatal genetic testing." Am J Bioeth. 2022 Feb;22(3):23-25. Pubmed PMID: 35089840
- Rahimzadeh V, Longo C, Gagnon J, Fernandez C, Bartlett G. "Assessing the quality of deliberative stakeholder consultations involving allied health professionals in pediatric palliative care and hematology/oncology in Canada." BMC Palliat Care .. 2021 Dec 15;20(1):1-8. Pubmed PMID: 34906102
Memberships
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Standing Committee on Ethics
- Trainee representative
- Canadian College of Family Physicians
- Member
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
- Member
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
- Member
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