AFRA SHAMNATH
New York,NY
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Researcher- AI & Clinical Informatics
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, USA
12.2023 - Current
- AI & Sociotechnical Evaluation: Leading an NIH R00-funded trial evaluating digital decision aids for atrial fibrillation using the RE-AIM framework to assess patient engagement and clinical outcomes.
- Usability & UX Research: Conducted usability analysis of an ML-based heart failure risk prediction app, identifying 8 critical barriers and delivering design recommendations for the product roadmap (Published in JACC: Advances, 2025).
- Human-Centered AI: Analyzed 1,000+ patient open-text responses to quantify trust, usability, and algorithmic literacy regarding clinical chatbots and AI tools.
- Health Equity Research: Coordinating recruitment for the MOMS Study, examining how underrepresented populations perceive and engage with AI-assisted clinical decision-making.
Project Associate
CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology
New Delhi, India
12.2019 - 08.2022
- Public Health Surveillance: Directed metadata management for >125,000 SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes supporting India’s National Genomic Surveillance Program.
- Policy Translation: Produced epidemiologic reports for the WHO and Ministry of Health, translating large-scale genomic data into actionable health interventions
Education
Master of Public Health - Epidemiology
New York University
05.2024
Master of Science - Cellular and Molecular Oncology
Amity University
India05.2020
Bachelor of Science (Honors) - Medical Biotechnology
Amity University
India05.2018
Skills
- Methods: Mixed-Methods Design, Implementation Science (RE-AIM), Qualitative Thematic Coding, Human-Centered Design, Longitudinal Statistical Modeling
- Tools: R, SQL, SAS, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Epic Slicer Dicer
- Specialized: NLP/LLM Pipelines, EHR Data Extraction, Clinical Phenotyping, Bioinformatics (NGS)
OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS
- Clinical NLP Pipelines: Supporting the development of open-source LLM pipelines for the automated extraction of clinical variables from EHR notes in heart failure cohorts.
- FaviCoV Database: Contributed to a manually curated resource for functional genetic variants in SARS-CoV-2.
- Community Engagement: Building custom clinical lexicons with LLMs to translate domain knowledge into machine-readable vocabularies for risk stratification.
ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS
- Peer-Reviewed Scholarship: Lead author or essential contributor to 15 scientific publications in venues such as NPJ Digital Medicine and European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
- Top-Tier Presentations: Selected to present at AMIA 2025 and the Columbia AI Summit on presenting predictive ML models to patients.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (15)
- Turchioe, M.R., Shamnath, A., et al. (2025). Testing a novel design framework for patient-facing machine learning-based predictions of heart failure decompensation. JACC: Advances.
- Turchioe, M.R., Shamnath, A., et al. (2025). Evaluating a digital decision aid for atrial fibrillation rhythm control in a hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial. NPJ Digital Medicine (Under review).
- 15+ peer-reviewed publications; presentations at AMIA 2025, NY Academy of Medicine Conference, Columbia AI Summit, Eastern Nursing Research Society Conference.
Timeline
Researcher- AI & Clinical Informatics
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
12.2023 - Current
Project Associate
CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology
12.2019 - 08.2022
Master of Public Health - Epidemiology
New York University
Master of Science - Cellular and Molecular Oncology
Amity University
Bachelor of Science (Honors) - Medical Biotechnology
Amity University