Dec 2024 – now

Nov – Dec 2024

Sep – Oct 2024

2024

2023 – 2025

Mar – Dec 2021

2021-2023

2021

2019 – 2022

2018 – 2024

Programming Experience

2018 – 2024

Mentorship Experience

2016 – 2024

Research Journey

Savage T; Wang J; Gallo R; Boukil A; Patel V; Safavi-Naini SAA; Soroush A; Chen JH, 2025. Large language model uncertainty proxies: discrimination and calibration for medical diagnosis and treatment. &nbspJ Am Med Inform Assoc 32(1):139-149

Raoufi M; Hojabri M; Samiei Nasr D; Najafiarab H; Salahi-Niri A; Ebrahimi N; Ariana S; Khodabandeh H; Salarian S; Looha MA; Pourhoseingholi MA; Safavi-Naini SAA, 2024. Comparative analysis of COVID-19 pneumonia in pregnant versus matched non-pregnant women: radiologic, laboratory, and clinical perspectives. &nbspSci Rep 14(1):22609

Karout L; Kalra MK, 2024. Survey of CT radiation doses and iodinated contrast medium administration: an international multicentric study. &nbspEur Radiol.

Allahgholipour A; Safavi-Naini SAA; Shekarriz Foomany Z; Eskandari A; Nazari Rostami H; Honarvar MJ; Mohammadi M; Khalili P; Ilaghi M; Afshar H; Amini Baghbadorani A; Moghimi HR; Chamani Goorabi A; Mehrparvar A; Safari M; Nakhli AS; Mahmoudabadi M; Seifadini A; Sheikhansari S; Khojastehfar S; Mahdavi P; Mohammadi M; Ashrafi Barzideh S; Akbarzadeh N; Delavarpour Moghadam SH; Tavakoli Pirzaman A; Barary M; Emamhadi M, 2024. COVID-19 vaccines breakthrough infection and adverse reactions in medical students: a nationwide survey in Iran. &nbspFront Public Health 12:1348015

Khalili S; Safavi-Naini SAA; Zarand P; Masoumi S; Farsi Y; Hosseinpanah F; Azizi F, 2024. Metabolic health’s central role in chronic kidney disease progression: a 20-year study of obesity-metabolic phenotype transitions. &nbspSci Rep 14(1):5244

Safavi-Naini SAA; Sobhani S; Malekpour MR; Bhalla K; Shahraz S; Haghshenas R; Ghamari SH; Abbasi-Kangevari M; Rezaei N; Heydari ST; Rezaei N; Lankarani KB; Farzadfar F, 2024. Drivers’ behavior confronting fixed and point-to-point speed enforcement camera: agent-based simulation and translation to crash relative risk change. &nbspSci Rep 14(1):1863

Pourhoseingholi MA; Yazdani O; Azizmohammad Looha M; Safavi-Naini SAA; Esbati R; Ilkhani S; Taraghikhah N; Hatamabadi H; Sadeghi A; Heidari K; Namazi N; Asadimanesh N; Hatari S; Shahrokh S; Solhpour A; Jamialahmadi T; Santos RD; Sahebkar A, 2024. Atorvastatin Effect on COVID-19 Outcomes: A Propensity Score Matched Study on Hospitalized Patients. &nbspCurr Med Chem.

Nekooghadam SM; Bozorgmehr R; Safavi-Naini SAA, 2023. Acrocyanosis and Progressive Skin Necrosis as Manifestation of Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Associated With Type I Cryoglobulinemia: A Case Report. &nbspInt J Low Extrem Wounds 22(3):605-609

Safavi Naini A; Rostami MM; Shojaeian F; Azizmohammad Looha M; Ghanbari Motlagh A; Safavi AA; Safavi-Naini SAA, 2023. Epidemiology and Histopathology of Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms in Iran. &nbspIran J Otorhinolaryngol 35(126):3-12

Barough SS; Safavi-Naini SAA; Siavoshi F; Tamimi A; Ilkhani S; Akbari S; Ezzati S; Hatamabadi H; Pourhoseingholi MA, 2023. Generalizable machine learning approach for COVID-19 mortality risk prediction using on-admission clinical and laboratory features. &nbspSci Rep 13(1):2399

Siavoshi F; Safavi-Naini SAA; Shirzadeh Barough S; Azizmohammad Looha M; Hatamabadi H; Ommi D; Jalili Khoshnoud R; Fatemi A; Pourhoseingholi MA, 2023. On-admission and dynamic trend of laboratory profiles as prognostic biomarkers in COVID-19 inpatients. &nbspSci Rep 13(1):6993

Hatami H; Jamshidi P; Arbabi M; Safavi-Naini SAA; Farokh P; Izadi-Jorshari G; Mohammadzadeh B; Nasiri MJ; Zandi M; Nayebzade A; Sechi LA, 2023. Demographic, Epidemiologic, and Clinical Characteristics of Human Monkeypox Disease Pre- and Post-2022 Outbreaks: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. &nbspBiomedicines 11.

Azizi N; Zangiabadian M; Seifi G; Davari A; Yekekhani E; Safavi-Naini SAA; Berger NA; Nasiri MJ; Sohrabi MR, 2023. Gastric Cancer Risk in Association with Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. &nbspCancers (Basel) 15.

Pourhoseingholi MA; Javazm AR; Asadimanesh N; Shojaeian F; Looha MA; Safavi-Naini SAA; Mohammadzadeh B; Jamshidi P; Gholampoor F; Yazdani O; Zameni N; Azizan Z; Sahebkar A, 2023. Effect of interferon-α on COVID-19 in-hospital mortality: a large-scale propensity score-matched study. &nbspEur Cytokine Netw 34(2):10-19

Tehrani SSM; Zarvani M; Amiri P; Ghods Z; Raoufi M; Safavi-Naini SAA; Soheili A; Gharib M; Abbasi H, 2023. Visual transformer and deep CNN prediction of high-risk COVID-19 infected patients using fusion of CT images and clinical data. &nbspBMC Med Inform Decis Mak 23(1):265

Sabaghian T; Honarvar M; Safavi-Naini SAA; Sadeghi Fadaki AS; Pourhoseingholi MA; Hatamabadi H, 2022. Effect of Electrolyte Imbalance on Mortality and Late Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients. &nbspIran J Kidney Dis 16(4):228-237

Safavi-Naini SAA; Pourhoseingholi MA, 2022. The early impact of COVID-19 vaccination on deaths among elderly people in Iran. &nbspGastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench 15(2):103-105

Hatamabadi H; Sabaghian T; Sadeghi A; Heidari K; Safavi-Naini SAA; Looha MA; Taraghikhah N; Khalili S; Karrabi K; Saffarian A; Shahsavan S; Majlesi H; Allahgholipour Komleh A; Hatari S; Zameni N; Ilkhani S; Hajimirzaei SM; Ghaffari A; Fallah MM; Kalantar R; Naderi N; Bahmaei P; Asadimanesh N; Esbati R; Yazdani O; Shojaeian F; Azizan Z; Ebrahimi N; Jafarzade F; Soheili A; Gholampoor F; Namazi N; Solhpour A; Jamialahamdi T; Pourhoseingholi MA; Sahebkar A, 2022. Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Tehran, Iran: A Cohort Study of Clinical Profile, Risk Factors, and Outcomes. &nbspBiomed Res Int 2022:2350063

Safavi-Naini SAA; Farsi Y; Alali WQ; Solhpour A; Pourhoseingholi MA, 2022. Excess all-cause mortality and COVID-19 reported fatality in Iran (April 2013-September 2021): age and sex disaggregated time series analysis. &nbspBMC Res Notes 15(1):130

Raoufi M; Safavi Naini SAA; Azizan Z; Jafar Zade F; Shojaeian F; Ghanbari Boroujeni M; Robatjazi F; Haghighi M; Arhami Dolatabadi A; Soleimantabar H; Shoaee S; Hatamabadi H, 2020. Correlation between Chest Computed Tomography Scan Findings and Mortality of COVID-19 Cases; a Cross sectional Study. &nbspArch Acad Emerg Med 8(1):e57

Publication list retrieved from NCBI using ImpactPubs

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Actively contributed to the academic community by completing a total of 39 reviews for 16 different publications and grants. His extensive peer review work spans a range of reputable journals, including:

• Acta Endocrinologica: 1 review
• Aging: 4 reviews
• Autoimmune Diseases: 1 review
• BMC Public Health: 1 review
• Frontiers in Genetics: 1 review
• Frontiers in Oncology: 1 review
• Frontiers in Public Health: 4 reviews
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology From Bed to Bench: 2 reviews
• International Journal of Surgery: 12 reviews
• IUBMB Life: 1 review
• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance: 1 review
• JMIR: 1 review
• Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis: 1 review
• PLOS ONE: 6 reviews
• The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism: 1 review
• The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism: 1 review

  • [2023-2025] Postdoctoral Researcher
    • Projects:
      • Benchmarking LLMs and VLMs on gastroenterology
      • Enhancing explainability through certainty quantification
      • Early detection and screening of upper GI cancers
  • [2021-2023] Research Fellow at Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, SBMU
    • Projects:
      • Founder of PanCanAID: screening, early detection, treatment planning, resectability scoring, prognose prediction
      • Capsule endoscopy repository
      • EUS repository
      • COVID-19 CDSS
  • [2018-2021] Research Associate at Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, SBMU
    • Projects: Projects: Lead coordinator of COVID-19 research in a multi-centric project involving 6 medical centers leading to collection of data from 10,000 inpatients with 1,500 follow-ups
    • Role: Team lead, programming, study design, automation, data analyst
  • [2017] Research Associate at National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, SBMU:
    • Projects: Time series analysis of National Cancer Registry database for nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal cancers.
    • Role: Data analysis and curation (MD thesis)

2014 – 2021

Education and Med School

Ranked 555th out of over 500,000 students in the university entrance exam and began my 8-year MD program at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

  • Completed an 18-month hands-on internship followed by two months of supervised practice.
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, my internship included one month in the ICU, one month in the ward, and one month in the ER.
  • Shadowing advanced endoscopic procedures.
  • Medalist in the National Olympiad of Medical Sciences for my project on medical education: developing a virtual patient for educational support.
  • I had the opportunity to pursue a double major, earning a Master of Science in Medical Education (2020–2023).
    •  Thesis A: Evaluated the impact of using the virtual patient platform (CyberPatient) in a ‘Digestive Disease Bootcamp’ for medical externs.
    • Thesis B: Developed an LLM-based question generation system using validated sources and retrieval-augmented generation techniques.”

During medical school, my passion for teamwork and leadership drove me to deepen my understanding of project management. This led me to pursue:

  • Master of Business Administration in Healthcare at SBMU (200-hour program, 12 courses, GPA: 20/20)
  • Master of Business Administration at University of Tehran, College of Engineering (250-hour program, 13 courses, GPA: 17/20)”