ABBAS SHOJAEE

Accomplished Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) professional with over 18 years of experience in the industry(pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare) and academia, specializing in Causal Inference, Health Data Science, and Real-World Evidence. Expert in developing and leading outcomes research projects leveraging deep analysis of existing literature and insights from data. Proficient in coding within R, Python, SQL, and advanced machine learning methods, with a proven track record of original works that influence healthcare decisions through robust evidence generation.

• Leading Applied Scientist in the ICT sector of Khorasan State, granted by the Governor-General in 2011.
• Award for outstanding project in the National Clinical Governance festival for integrated diabetes electronic medical record, granted by Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2009.
• Six certifications of excellence from pioneer clinical research institutes for improving patient outcomes and promoting research through the establishment of disease registries and electronic medical records, 2007-2011.
• Awarded the UN World Summit Award in 2008 for Hakim Electronic Health Record as the best eHealth solution from Iran by the WSIS organization.
• Best Student Research Award for "Micro Population Genetic Laboratory: A Computer Simulation", Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

• Visual art enthusiast and generative arts hobbyist
• Woodworking
• Badminton and swimming

• Shojaee, A. and S.-s. Hung (2023). "Robust discovery of gene regulatory networks from single-cell gene expression data using Causal Inference with Composition of Transactions." Briefings in Bioinformatics (under review)
• Samuels, E. A., Taylor, R.A., Pendyal, A., Shojaee, A., Mainardi, A. S., (2022). "Mapping emergency department asthma visits to identify poor-quality housing in New Haven, CT, USA: a retrospective cohort study." The Lancet Public Health 7(8): e694-e704.
• Shojaee A, Saavedra M, Huang S-sC. Potentials of single-cell genomics in deciphering cellular phenotypes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 2021;63:102059.
• Shojaee A, Siner JM, Zinchuk A, Aryan Y, Kaminski N, Cruz CSD. Viral Pneumonia is Associated with Increased Risk and Earlier Development of Post-Inflammatory Pulmonary Fibrosis. medRxiv. 2021.
• Nawaz MS, Fournier-Viger P, Shojaee A, Fujita H. Using artificial intelligence techniques for COVID-19 genome analysis. Applied Intelligence. 2021:1-18.
• Shafiabadi Hassani N, Shojaee A, Khodaprast Z, Sepahvandi R, Shahrestanaki E, Rastad H. Echocardiographic Features of Cardiac Injury Related to COVID-19 and Their Prognostic Value: A Systematic Review. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2021;36(4):500-8.
• Shojaee, A. and V. Mohsenin (2020). Obstructive Sleep Apnea Increases the Risk of Pulmonary Hypertension Independent of Relevant Risk Factors. D19. SRN: HEALTH CONSEQUENCES AND OUTCOMES OF OSA: WHAT DO BIG DATA AND CLINICAL TRIALS TELL US?, American Thoracic Society: A6252-A6252. (Paper in preparation)
• Shojaee A, Kaminski N, Siner J, Aryan Y, Zinchuk A, Yan X, Dela Cruz C. Viral Pneumonia Is an Independent Risk Factor for Pulmonary Fibrosis: Results of Large-Scale Longitudinal Population-Level Data. B109 WHAT'S NEW WITH CLINICAL LUNG INFECTIONS AND PNEUMONIA?: American Thoracic Society; 2019. p. A4213-A. (a research letter is under review in JAMA)
• Shojaee A, Platelet Transfusion Is an Independent Risk Factor for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Results of Large-Scale Longitudinal Population-Level Data. C35 HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH IN COUGH, CF, AND ILD: American Thoracic Society; 2019. p. A4625-A. (Paper in preparation)
• Bade B, Shojaee A, Gulati M. Hospital-Associated Outcomes for IPF Patients with Lung Cancer. D103 IDIOPATHIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA: NATURAL HISTORY AND PROGNOSIS: American Thoracic Society; 2019. p. A7129-A.
• Shojaee A, Gomez Villalobos, J., Wang, X., Kaminski, N., Siner, J., Takyar, S., . . . Chupp, G. (2018). Asthma-Neoplasms Relationships: New Insights Using Machine Inference, Epidemiological Reasoning, And Big Data.
• Shojaee A, Gomez J, Kaminski N, Siner J, Wang X, Aani A, et al. Asthma Is Associated with Benign Glandular Neoplasms in a Large-Scale Population-Based Cohort. A53 ASTHMA EPIDEMIOLOGY: American Thoracic Society; 2018. p. A1913-A.
• Zinchuk A, Yaggi K, Wenlan Z, Siner J, Shojaee A. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Increases the Risk of Diastolic Heart Failure: Results of a Large Population Study. A77 EFFECT OF SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING ON CARDIOMETABOLIC AND NEUROCOGNITIVE OUTCOMES: American Thoracic Society; 2018. p. A7694-A.
• Haimovich, J. S., Venkatesh, A. K., Shojaee, A., Coppi, A., Warner, F., Li, S.-X., & Krumholz, H. M. (2017). Discovery of temporal and disease association patterns in condition-specific hospital utilization rates. PLoS One, 12(3), e0172049.
• Shojaee, Abbas. "Revisiting Causal Inference In Memory-Less Transition Networks.", 2016: arxiv.1608.02658.
• Ranasinghe, I., Shojaee, A., Bikdeli, B., Gupta, A., Chen, R., Ross, J. S., . . . Krumholz, H. M. (2015). Poorly Cited Articles in Peer-Reviewed Cardiovascular Journals from 1997-2007: Analysis of 5-Year Citation Rates. Circulation. doi: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.015080
• Nuti, S. V., Ranasinghe, I., Murugiah, K., Shojaee, A., Li, S.-X., & Krumholz, H. M. (2015). Association between journal citation distribution and impact factor: a novel application of the Gini coefficient. J Am Coll Cardiol, 65(16), 1711-1712.
• Shojaee Abbas MD, Shu-Xia Li Ph.D., Isuru Ranasinghe, Sudhakar V. Nuti, Emily Bucholz, MPH, Rachel Dreyer, Karthik Murugiah, Bobak Mortazavi, Harlan M. Krumholz. " Visualizing Distinct Trajectories of Healthcare Utilization Patterns Leading to Heart Failure Readmission", Yale Day Of Data, 2014.
• Murugiah, K., Chen, S. I., Dharmarajan, K., Nuti, S. V., Wayda, B., Shojaee, A., . . . Dreyer, R. P. (2014). Most important outcomes research papers on cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 7(2), 335-345.
• Najafi I, Alatab S, Atabak S, Majelan NN, Sanadgol H, Makhdoomi K, Shojaee A. Seventeen years' experience of peritoneal dialysis in Iran: the first official report of the Iranian peritoneal dialysis registry. Peritoneal Dialysis International. 2014;34(6):636-42.

• Mentor health technology startups at ABCT & ELabNYC programs in CT and NY.
• Provide registry software applications and data analysis services to the national network for Peritoneal Dialysis and Shafa Dialysis Research Centre (2007-2011).
• Advise the Ministry of Health and Medical Education – office of non-communicable disease on diabetes and cardiovascular disease registry, data quality, and analytics (2006-2009).
• Advise Charity Foundation for Speciality Diseases on Thalassemia and Diabetes EMRs, and implemented statistical dashboards (2005).
• Peer-review data science papers for leading medical journals such as Stroke and Circulation (2014-present)
• Establish and lead AI In Medicine Student Research Group at the Student Research Assembly at the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Instructed courses on C and C++ programming, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and Monte Carlo Simulation to medical students