Please join us Tuesday, 10/14/2025 for POP Research Seminar of the Spring 2025, held from 10:40 am-12:40 pm in NVIDIA Auditorium (1st Floor). We will be welcoming , Kimia Zandbiglari, M.Sc and Yehua Wang, MS
Kimia Zandbiglari, M.Sc. is a forth-year PhD student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, working under the direction of Dr. Rouhizadeh and Dr. Goodin. She received her bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2016. She also received a master’s in technology management from Texas State University in 2022. Her interests include Artificial intelligence in healthcare, and natural language processing, Her seminar title presented is: “Lexicon-Guided Annotation and Fine-Tuned Language Models for Identifying Opioid Use Disorder in Clinical Text”.
Yehua Wang, MSPH is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, with Dr. Almut Winterstein as his advisor. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Fudan University in China. He then completed his master’s at Johns Hopkins University ,majoring in Global Health Epidemiology, with additional certificates in vaccine science and clinical trials. Yehua’s research interests lay mainly in the field of pharmacoepidemiology. He has been involved in research projects from different fields including cardiovascular diseases, women’s health, medical marijuana, and diabetes. His dissertation focuses on cardiovascular diseases. His Seminar title presented is: ” Secular trend analysis of variables using claim data”.
To join the Zoom meeting: Please contact Gabby Gele’ (ggele@ufl.edu), or Abdelrahman Emara @ (aemara@ufl.edu0 for the Zoom link
