Ali Benjamin Abbasi, MD
Resident
Surgery
School of Medicine
Ali B. Abbasi, MD MPhil MSci is currently a general surgery resident with the UCSF Department of Surgery. He previously attended the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA/MSci in Physics and an MPhil in Computational Biology. At Cambridge, he rowed on the varsity crew team that won the 2016 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
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He completed medical school at the University of Chicago where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society.
While in medical school, Dr. Abbasi served as an advisor to Director Nirav Shah at the Illinois Department of Public Health, where he focused on data-informed policies in response to the opioid overdose epidemic and childhood lead poisoning. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Abbasi led modeling and resource planning efforts at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
Currently, Dr. Abbasi is a T32 Fellow in Surgical Oncology, serving as a senior policy advisor in the office of commissioner Robert Califf MD, at the US Food and Drug Administration. In this role, Dr. Abbasi is focused on efforts to improve evidence generation and streamline clinical trials in the US health care system.
Education & Training
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- MD Medicine University of Chicago 07/2020
- MPhil Computational Biology University of Cambridge 08/2016
- BA/MSci Physics University of Cambridge 07/2015
Interests
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- Trauma Surgery
- Public Health
- Critical Care
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
Publications (11)
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Modifier 22-Is It All Just a Catch-22?
JAMA surgery 2024 Abbasi AB, Wick EC -
Precision Oncology in Breast Cancer Surgery.
Surgical oncology clinics of North America 2024 Abbasi AB, Wu V, Lang JE, Esserman LJ -
Why some Patients Benefit from Participating in a Sham Surgery Trial.
Annals of surgery 2023 Abbasi AB, Cifu AS -
Hidden hazards and screening policy: Predicting undetected lead exposure in Illinois.
Journal of health economics 2023 Abbasi A, DiTraglia FJ, Gazze L, Pals B -
The Reversal of a "Reversible" Procedure.
American journal of surgery 2021 Abbasi AB, Cifu AS
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Predictors of Opioid Prescription After Orthognathic Surgery in Opioid Naive Adults From a Large Database.
The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2021 Pakvasa M, Abbasi A, Boachie-Mensah M, Chattha A, Reid RR -
Association of a New Trauma Center With Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Trauma Care
JAMA Surgery 2020 Abbasi AB, Dumanian J, Okum S, Nwaudo D, Lee D, Prakash P, Bendix P -
Policy Changes and Child Blood Lead Levels by Age 2 Years for Children Born in Illinois, 2001-2014.
American journal of public health 2020 Abbasi A, Pals B, Gazze L -
Opioid Prescribing Patterns Before Fatal Opioid Overdose.
American journal of preventive medicine 2020 Abbasi AB, Salisbury-Afshar E, Berberet CE, Layden JE, Pho MT -
Mutational load causes stochastic evolutionary outcomes in acute RNA viral infection.
Virus evolution 2019 Zhao L, Abbasi AB, Illingworth CJR -
Health Care Utilization of Opioid Overdose Decedents with No Opioid Analgesic Prescription History.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2019 Abbasi AB, Salisbury-Afshar E, Jovanov D, Berberet C, Arunkumar P, Aks SE, Layden JE, Pho MT