Zahra Azizi

Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine

Bio

I am a medical doctor and clinical epidemiologist, presently serving as a scientist at Stanford University. My work centers on precision medicine, employing digital health, computer science, and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. I am dedicated to integrating and applying these methodologies within the medical field to generate novel insights and deepen understanding of health-related issues. My focus also extends to tackling health disparities, with the ultimate goal of enhancing patient care and reducing disease impact.

Projects

Optimization Toolkit for Management of Heart Failure after Discharge: ENGAGE_HF, Stanford University (April 18, 2022 - Present)
I. Leading and development of Heart Failure management mobile application
II. Partnering with stakeholders including patient panel, healthcare professionals, software engineers and other network collaborators for toolkit curation
III. Creating patient-focused educational content through text and designing interactive animation videos to include in the application

Location

Palo Alto

For More Information:
- ENGAGE-HF Website
- Patient Education/Engage-HF Mobile Application
Role of social determinants of health in cardiac disease management, complications, and adherence using novel machine learning algorithms, Stanford University (April 18, 2022 - Present)
Location

Palo Alto

For More Information:
- Heart Lab
Cardiac Arrhythmia, Stanford University (April 18, 2022 - Present)

Defining computational phenotypes of positive and negative response to complex arrhythmia ablation. This involves data mining, assisting with natural language processing, data analysis, drafting abstracts and manuscripts

Location

Palo Alto
Epigenetics, Stanford University (9/1/2023 - Present)

I. Identifying genetic and non-genetic determinants of cardiometabolic diseases.
II. Leading large-scale genetic association studies.
III. Conducting multi-trait analysis with correlated traits.
IV. Developing and validating polygenic risk scores.
V. Integrating multi-omics data for comprehensive analyses.
VI. Employing Mendelian randomization to enhance our grasp of genetic and environmental contributors to cardiometabolic diseases.

Location

Palo Alto

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