Ali Abbasi

Dr. Abbasi recently served as Senior Policy Advisor to Commissioner Robert Califf MD of the US Food and Drug Administration. In this role, he led efforts to streamline evidence generation across the healthcare system and improve our ability to learn from routinely generated health data. He previously served as data science advisor to the directors of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, Dr. Abbasi is finishing his surgical training at the University of California, San Francisco.