2024

Rahimzadeh, V., Nelson, S.C., Thorogood, A., Lawson J., Fullerton SM. Ethical governance for genomic data science in the cloud. Nat Rev Genet (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-024-00789-9.

Rahimzadeh, V. Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools. Am J Bioeth. 2024 Jul;24(7):29-31. 10.1080/15265161.2024.2353031.

Rahimzadeh, V. (2024). US regulation of medical artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) research and development. In Barry Solaiman and I.Glenn Cohen (eds) Research Handbook on Health AI and the Law. Elgar.

Baek, J., Lawson, J., Rahimzadeh, V. (2024). Investigating the Roles and Responsibilities of Institutional Signing Officials After Data Sharing Policy Reform for Federally Funded Research in the United States: National Survey. JMIR Formative Research. 20;8:e49822.

Lawson, J., Rahimzadeh, V., Baek, J., Dove, E.S. (2024). Achieving Procedural Parity in Managing Access to Genomic and Related Health Data: A Global Survey of Data Access Committee Members. 2024, 22;2:123-129. doi 10.1089/bio.2022.0205.

Rahimzadeh, V., Baek, J., Lawson, J., Dove, E.S. (2024). A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access. BMC Med Ethics 25, 51.

Morain, S. O’Rourke, P. Ali, J., Rahimzadeh, V. Check, D., Bosworth, H.B., Sugarman, J.(2024). Post-trial responsibilities in pragmatic clinical trials: Fulfilling the promise of research to drive real-world change. Learning Health Systems.

2023

• Rahimzadeh, V., Jones, K. M., Majumder, M. A., Kahana, M. J., Rutishauser, U., Williams, Z. M., ... & Wolpaw, J. (2023). Benefits of sharing neurophysiology data from the BRAIN Initiative Research Opportunities in Humans Consortium. Neuron. DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2023.09.029.

• Rahimzadeh, V., Fogarty, J., Caulfield, T., Auñón-Chancellor, S., Borry, P., Candia, J., ... & McGuire, A. L. (2023). Ethically cleared to launch?. Science, 381(6665), 1408-1411.

• Rahimzadeh V. (2023). The Ethical Data Practices Framework and Its Implications for Data Privacy Relations between the United States and the European Union. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23:11, 29-33, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2256618.

• Rahimzadeh, V., Ambe, J., & de Vries, J. (2023). Enhancing Reciprocity, Equity and Quality of Ethics Review for Multisite Research During Public Health Crises: The Experience of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition Ethics Working Group. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 51(2), 258-270. DOI: 10.1017/jme.2023.75

• Kostick-Quenet, K., Rahimzadeh, V., Anandasabapathy, S., Hurley, M., Sonig, A., & Mcguire, A. (2023). Integrating Social Determinants of Health into Ethical Digital Simulations. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23(9), 57-60. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2237443.

• Rahimzadeh, V., Kostick-Quenet, K., Blumenthal Barby, J., & McGuire, A. L. (2023). Ethics Education for Healthcare Professionals in the Era of chatGPT and Other Large Language Models: Do We Still Need It? The American Journal of Bioethics. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2233358.

• Robinson, J.O., Daoud, A., Geary, J., Rahimzadeh, V., Bollinger, J., Guerrini, C., Cook-Deegan, R., McGuire, A., Majumder, M.A. (2023) Policy options to facilitate cancer genomic variant data sharing: outcomes of a modified policy Delphi, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 10(2); lsad022. DOI:10.1093/jlb/Isad022.

• Kostick-Quenet, K., Rahimzadeh, V. (2023) Ethical hazards of health data governance in the metaverse. Nature Machine Intelligence 5, 480–482 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-023-00658-w.

• Rahimzadeh, V., Serpico, K. & Gelinas, L. (2023) Institutional review boards need new skills to review data sharing and management plans. Nature Medicine. DOI:10.1038/s41591-023-02292-w.

• Ge, T.J., Rahimzadeh, V.N., Mintz, K., Park, W.G., Martinez-Martin, N., Liao, J.C. and Park, S.M., 2023. Passive monitoring by smart toilets for precision health. Science Translational Medicine, 15(681), p.eabk3489.

2022

• Rahimzadeh V, Peng G, Cho MK. A mixed-methods protocol to develop and validate a stewardship maturity matrix for human genomic data in the cloud. 2022. Frontiers in Genetics. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.876869.

• Rahimzadeh V, Friedman J, de Wert G, Knoppers BM. Exome/Genome-Wide Testing in Newborn Screening: A Proportionate Path Forward. Frontiers in Genetics. 2022 doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.865400.

• Rahimzadeh V, Wolfert S, Buenger V, Campbell C, French R, Ludwinski D, Weinstein A, Barrett C. A systematic literature review to identify ethical, legal, and social responsibilities of nonprofit organizations when funding clinical trials in pediatric cancer. Pediatric Blood &Cancer, 2022 Jun 17;e29854. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29854.

• Rahimzadeh V. Regulatory Angels and Technology Demons? Making Sense of Evolving Realities in Health Data Privacy for the Digital Age. (2022) The American Journal of Bioethics. DOI:10.1080/15265161.2022.2075981.

• Rahimzadeh V, Lawson J, Baek J, Dove ES. Automating Justice: a Responsibility of Computational Bioethics. AJOB, 22:7, 30-33, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2075051.

• Rahimzadeh V, Lawson J, Rushton G, Dove ES. Leveraging algorithms to improve decision-making workflows for data access and Management. Biopreservation & Biobanking. 2022. DOI: 10.1089/bio.2022.00421.

• Serpico K, Rahimzadeh V, Gelinas L, Hartsmith L, Fernandez Lynch H, Anderson E. Institutional review board use of outside experts: a national survey. AJOB Empirical. 2022. doi:10.1080/23294515.2022.2090459.

• Federico, C. A., Heagerty, P. J., Lantos, J., O'Rourke, P., Rahimzadeh, V., Sugarman, J., ... & Magnus, D. (2022). Ethical and epistemic issues in the design and conduct of pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized clinical trials. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 115, 106703.

• Rodríguez C, Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett-Esquilant G, Carver T. Insights for Teaching During a Pandemic: Lessons From a Pre-COVID-19 International Synchronous Hybrid Learning Experience. Fam Med. 2022;54(6):471-476. DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2022.319716.

• Spector-Bagdady K, Rahimzadeh V, Jaffe K, Moreno J. Promoting Ethical Deployment of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare. AJOB, 2022;22(5):4-7.

• Serpico K, Rahimzadeh V, Gelinas L, Anderson E, Fernandez Lynch H. Institutional Review Board Use of Outside Experts: What Do We Know? Ethics & Human Research, 44:2, 26-32. DOI:10.1002/eahr.5200121.

• Kleiderman E, Rahimzadeh V, Knoppers BM, Roy MC, Laberge AM, Ravitsky V. The Serious Factor in Expanded Prenatal Genetic Testing. AJOB, 22:2, 23-25, DOI:10.1080/15265161.2021.2013991.

2021

• Rahimzadeh V, Longo C, Gagnon J, Fernandez C, Bartlett G. Assessing the quality of deliberative stakeholder consultations involving allied health professionals in pediatric palliative care and hematology/oncology in Canada. BMC Palliative Care. Dec 2021.

• Longo C, Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett G. Communication of Pharmacogenomic Test Results and Treatment Plans in Pediatric Oncology: Deliberative Stakeholder Consultations with Parents. Nov 2021.

• Rahimzadeh V. A policy and practice review of consumer protections and their application to hospital-sourced data aggregation and analytics by third party companies. Frontiers in Big Data. 2021, doi: 10.3389/fdata.2020.603044.

• Rahimzadeh V. Ethics review mutual recognition and multinational collaboration in pandemic response settings. COVID19 Clinical Research Coalition Ethics Working Group; WHO Health Ethics & Governance Unit. Report, 2021.

• Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett G, Knoppers BM. A policy Delphi study to validate the Key Implications of Data Sharing (KIDS) framework for pediatric genomics in Canada. BMC Med Ethics (2021) 22:71. doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00635-1.

2020

• Rahimzadeh V, Knoppers BM, Bartlett G. Ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of responsible data sharing involving children in genomics: a systematic literature review of reasons. AJOB Empirical Bioethics. Sept 2020. doi.org/10.1080/23294515.2020.1818875.

• Subbian, V; Solomides, A; Clarkson, M; Rahimzadeh, V; Petersen, C; Schreiber, DeMuro, Dua, P; Goodman, K. Kaplan, B; Koppel, R; Lehmann, K; Pan, Senathirajah, Y. Ethics and Informatics in the Age of Covid-19: Challenges and Recommendations for Public Health Organization and Public Policy. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Jul 28;ocaa188. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa188. 

• Rahimzadeh V. The pros and cons of prosent as an alternative to traditional informed consent in medical research. J Med Ethics 2020;0:1–2. doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-106443.

• Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett G, Longo C, Illes J. Interactive role-playing and health-related quality of life assessment in children with neurocognitive sequelae: A global neuroethics research approach. In: Global Mental Health and Neuroethics. 2020 doi 10.1016/B978-0-12-815063-4.00011-3.

• Barnes R, Votova K, Rahimzadeh V, Osman N, Penn AM, Zawati MH, Knoppers BM. Biobanking for Genomics and Personalized Health research: Participant perceptions and preferences. Biopreservation and Biobanking 2020 doi: 10.1089/bio.2019.0090.

2019

• Gagnon J, Rahimzadeh V, Longo C, Nugus P, Bartlett G. Including Ethnography in Deliberative Stakeholder Consultations to Evaluate Analytic and Deliberative Outputs: Providing insight for a Pediatric Oncology Genomic Implementation Study. Journal of Health Organization and Management 2019, 33(7-8): 919-928. doi: 10.1108/JHOM-10-2018-0297

• Illes J, Antle A, Lou H, Longstaff H, Rahimzadeh V, mcdonald P.J, Van der Loos HFM, Kids Brain Health Network Working Group on Involving Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Research. Reflections involving children with neurodevelopmental disorders in biomedical research. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 2019, 3(3): 143-144. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30022-7.

2018

• Granados Moreno P, Ali-Khan SE, Capps B, Caulfield T, Chalaud D, Edwards A, Gold ER, Rahimzadeh V, Thorogood A, Auld D, Bertier G, Bonter L, Breden F, Caron R, Cesar P, Cook-Deegan R, De Luca C, Doerr M, Duncan R, Issa AM, Reichman J, Simard J, So D, Vanamala S, Joly J. Open-Science Precision Medicine in Canada: Points to Consider. FACETS 2018, 4: 1-19. doi: 10.1139/facets-2018-0034

• Bartlett G, Longo C, Puzhko S, Gagnon J, Rahimzadeh V. Deliberative stakeholder consultations: creating insights into effective practice-change in family medicine. Family Practice 2018, 35(6):749–752. doi:10.1093/fampra/cmy056

• Rahimzadeh V. Precision medicine and instrumentalizing the patient? Annals of Family Medicine, 2018. Letter to the Editor.

• Rahimzadeh V. Ethics governance outside the box: reimagining blockchain as a tool to facilitate single ethics review and data sharing for the ‘omics’ sciences. Blockchain in Healthcare Today 2018, 1(1). doi: 10.30953/bhty.v1.18

• Rahimzadeh V, Schickhardt C, Knoppers BM, Sénécal K, Vears DF, Fernandez CV, Pfister S, Plon S Clayton EW, Terry S, Williams J, Williams MS, Cornel M, Friedman JM, Pediatric Task Team of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Key Implications of Data Sharing in pediatric genomics: points to consider for KIDS. JAMA Pediatrics 2018, 172(5):476-481. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.5500. PMID: 29554172

2017

• Rahimzadeh V. The raison d’être of mutual recognition: An analysis of the 2015 reforms to research ethics review policies, processes and problems in Québec. Health Reform Observer 2017, 5(3) doi: /10.13162/hro-ors.v5i3.2708.

• Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett G. Policies and practices of data-intensive primary care in the precision-medicine era. Internal Medicine Reviews 2017, 3(9). doi: 10.18103/imr.v3i9.558

• Rahimzadeh V, Dove ES, Knoppers BM. The sIRB system: a single beacon of progress in the revised Common Rule? American Journal of Bioethics 2017, 17(7):43-46. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2017.1328530.

2016

• Isasi R, Rahimzadeh V, Charlebois K. Uncertainty and innovation: understanding the role of cell- based manufacturing facilities in shaping regulatory and commercialization environments. Applied & Translational Genomics 2016, 11: 27-39. doi: 10.1016/j.atg.2016.11.001

• Longo C, Rahimzadeh V, O’Doherty K, Bartlett G. Addressing ethical challenges at the intersection of pharmacogenomics and primary care: results of deliberative consultations with patients, physicians, and policy-makers. Pharmacogenomics 2016, doi:10.2217/pgs-2016-0092.

• Tassé AM, Bledsoe AM, Giepmans L, Rahimzadeh V. Legal and ethical implications of data sharing in international biobank research: towards a global response. Biopreservation and Biobanking 2016, 14(3):193-194. doi: 10.1089/bio.2016.29003.amt.

• Rahimzadeh V, Dyke SOM, Knoppers BM. International framework for data sharing: moving forward with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Biopreservation and Biobanking 2016,14(3):256-9. doi: 10.1089/bio.2016.0005.

• Rahimzadeh V, Knoppers BM. How mutually recognizable is mutual recognition in research ethics review? An international terminology index. Personalized Medicine 2016;13(2):101-105. doi: 10.2217/pme.15.52.

2015

• Sénécal K, Rahimzadeh V, Knoppers BM, Fernandez CV, Avard D, Sinnett D. Statement of principles on the return of research results and incidental findings in paediatric research: a multi-site consultative process. Genome 2015;58(12):541-548. doi: 10.1139/gen-2015-0092.

• Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett G, Longo C, Crimi C, Macdonald ME, Jabado N, Ells C. Promoting an ethic of engagement in pediatric palliative care research. BMC Palliative Care 2015;14(50).  doi:10.1186/s12904-015-0048-

• Rahimzadeh V. Phasing out voluntary donation in clinical trials: the ethics of mandated biospecimen donation. Journal of Clinical Trials 2015(5):5. doi: 10.4172/2167-0870.1000241

• Zawati MH, Junker A, Knoppers BM, Rahimzadeh V. Streamlining review of research involving humans: Canadian models. Journal of Medical Genetics 2015;52(8):566-9. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2014-102640.

• Rahimzadeh V, Nugus P, Lessard D. Teaching the sum while paying attention to the parts: whole person care through ethnography in medical education. International Journal of Whole Person Care 2015;2(2):1-5. doi: 10.26443/ijwpc.v2i2.96

• Rahimzadeh V. A missed opportunity for shared responsibility in adolescent contraception. Journal of Adolescent & Family Health 2015;7(1). doi: http://scholar.utc.edu/jafh/vol7/iss1/1. 

2014

• Rahimzadeh V, Bartlett GB. Genetics and primary care: where are we headed? Journal of Translation Medicine 2014; 12(238). doi: 10.1186/s12967-014-0238-6.

• Rahimzadeh V, Avard D, Sénécal K, Knoppers BM, Sinnett D. To disclose or not to disclose? Context matters. European Journal of Human Genetics 2014;23(3):279-84. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.108.

• Bartlett G, Rahimzadeh V, Longo C, Orlando LA, Dawes M, Lachaine J, Bochud M, Paccaud F, Bergman H, Crimi L, Issa AM. The future of genomic testing in primary care: the changing face of personalized medicine. Personalized Medicine 2014;11(5):477-486. doi: 10.2217/pme.14.36.