Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi
- Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in AI and Advanced Digital Primary Health Care
- Co-Director of McGill’s Collaborative for AI and Society (McCAIS)
- Research Co-Director of the General Practice Residency (GPR) program at the Jewish General Hospital
Dr. Samira A. Rahimi, B.Eng, PhD, is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in AI and Advanced Digital Primary Health Care. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences at McGill University, Co-Director of McGill’s Collaborative for AI and Society (McCAIS), and an associate academic member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. She also serves as Research Co-Director of the General Practice Residency (GPR) program in dentistry at the Jewish General Hospital.
With an interdisciplinary background, her research, supported by national and international funding, focuses on developing and implementing advanced digital health technologies—including AI-enabled tools—to improve primary health care. She is particularly committed to improving care for vulnerable and underserved populations, ensuring that innovation benefits everyone.
Her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Roche Canada, Brocher Foundation (Switzerland), Google, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
She has received several distinguished national and international awards and honours, including being named a 2026 Top 100 Women in AI for her leadership and impact in AI; the 2026 Digital Health Canada Future Leader Award for excellence and leadership in digital health; the 2025 Donald A. Henderson Prize for Outstanding Global Health Research; and the 2022 Marjorie Bowman and Robert Choplin New Investigator Award for outstanding contributions to primary care research.
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