Email

vaso.rahimzadeh@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

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

McGill Med Star Award

(05/2019)

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar

(05/2016-05/2019)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Best Poster Prize in Medicine and Public Health

(05/2018)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

David McCutcheon Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship

(09/2013-09/2014)

McGill University Health Centre

Professional Statement

Vasiliki (Vaso) Rahimzadeh, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. She investigates the ethical, legal, and social issues of health data sharing across emerging computing environments. The goals of her research are to inform data governance policy and practice which maximizes the scientific value of health data and respects the rights and interest of individuals and communities. Dr. Rahimzadeh leads the Regulatory and Ethics Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, served on a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee on life science governance and currently serves on the Bioethics Advisory Panel for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Dr. Rahimzadeh received her undergraduate degree in microbial biology from the University of California Berkeley. She earned both her MSc and PhD degrees in biomedical ethics from McGill University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with support from a National Human Genome Research Institute Ethical Legal and Social Implications Program training grant.

Websites

Videos

Selected Publications

• Rahimzadeh, V., Nelson, S. C., Thorogood, A., Lawson, J., & Fullerton, S. M. ( "Ethical governance for genomic data science in the cloud." Nature Reviews Genetics. 2024 Oct 18;Online ahead of print Pubmed PMID: 39424902
• Rahimzadeh, V., Fogarty, J., Caulfield, T., Auñón-Chancellor, S., Borry, P., Candia, J., & McGuire, A. L. "Ethically cleared to launch?." Science. 2023 Sep 29;381(6665):1408-1411. Pubmed PMID: 37769066
• Rahimzadeh, V. "US regulation of medical artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) research and development." Research Handbook on Health, AI and the Law.;273-290.
• Rahimzadeh, V., Jones, K. M., Majumder, M. A., Kahana, M. J., Rutishauser, U., Williams, Z. M., ... & Wolpaw, J "Benefits of sharing neurophysiology data from the BRAIN Initiative Research Opportunities in Humans Consortium." Neuron.. 2023 Dec 6;11(23):3710-3715. Pubmed PMID: 37944519

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

Funding

Translational Research Institute for Space Health

Grant funding from Translational Research Institute for Space Health, Baylor College of Medicine

The goals of this project are to Enhance engagement with relevant stakeholders to augment TRISH’s mission; Promote development of opportunities for business development and management; and assist in executing TRISH’s science, educational, or outreach objectives as stated in the cooperative agreement between TRISH and NASA.

Implementation of an impact assessment tool to optimize genomic data stewardship in the cloud - #K01HG013112

Grant funding from National Human Genome Research Institute

Enhancing Ethics and Humanities Research on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Texas Medical Center Collaborator Fund, Rice University