Dr. Farrokh Alemi, PhD, was trained as an operations researcher and industrial engineer and has worked in both academia and healthcare. He maintains patents on sentiment analysis, measurement of episodes of illness, and personalized medicine. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Health Services Research, Medical Care, and Palliative Medicine. His research focuses on causal analysis of massive data available in electronic health records. His publications have contributed to predictive medicine, precision medicine, comparison of medication effectiveness, natural language processing, the risk-adjusted analysis of cost-effectiveness, causal networked models, tracking trajectories of diseases, and determining the prognosis of patients with multiple morbidities. Dr. Alemi is the creator of the widely used multimorbidity index. He has analyzed data from diverse groups of patients, including children; nursing home residents; and patients with diabetes, major depression, heart failure, anemia, hypertension, trauma, drug use disorder, and other conditions. Dr. Alemi was a pioneer in online management of patients and has provided congressional testimony on the role of the internet in healthcare delivery. He is the author of three books, including Decision Analysis for Healthcare Managers (Health Administration Press, 2006).

 

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