Samah Fodeh, PhD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Biostatistics (Health Informatics)Cards
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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Biography
Samah Fodeh-Jarad, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Yale School of Public Health. She is also affiliated with the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIHG) and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Dr. Fodeh has distinguished herself as researcher in the field of Biomedical Informatics and Big Data Science with a growing national and international reputation. Her contributions include the development of complex computational methods and tools that are critical for advancing biomedical informatics research and data science. Through her work, Dr. Fodeh demonstrates the utility of exploiting and combining multiple data modalities by employing methods from data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. Her research is focused on health and social media data mining to answer critical health related questions to suicide risk, opioid addiction, migraine diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Fodeh is also interested in studying patient-centered aspects of care including communications in clinical settings between patients and healthcare providers, stigmatizing language, social determinants of health and their impact on health-related outcomes.
Appointments
Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor on TermPrimaryBiostatistics
Associate Professor on TermSecondaryBiomedical Informatics & Data Science
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
- Biostatistics
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Center for Medical Informatics
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Emergency Medicine
- Fodeh Lab
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health
Education & Training
- PhD
- Michigan State University (2010)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
Media
News
- September 13, 2022
Yale Researchers Join NIH Bridge2AI Program
- September 02, 2021
New Award To Study Risk Model For Fractures in Persons With HIV