Physician from Syria, doing a PhD in public health in Tokyo. I work with statistics and health data.
I'm from Homs, Syria. I trained as a physician through the war (MD, Homs University), then came to Tokyo on a MEXT scholarship. Six years in, I'm a PhD candidate in public health at St. Luke's International University.
Most days I work with real-world health data (national registries, claims, federated EHR networks), asking things like whether a policy actually changed anything, how two treatments compare once you follow patients past the trial, or where inequality hits hardest.
Medicine taught me to think in decisions. Statistics taught me to think in populations. The work I want to do lives somewhere between them.
Forecasting smoking-prevalence trajectories for 190 countries. A published paper on regional disparities in Japan's Health Japan 21 progress. Ongoing work on tobacco-advertising exposure and heated-tobacco use in Japan.
Stroke and cerebrovascular disparities at national scale, mostly on the National Inpatient Sample. Race × sex gaps in thrombectomy access. A decade of poststroke spasticity data that will inform the 2026 AHA Scientific Statement. Also an NIH-funded head-to-head of stroke drugs on a federated real-world network.
COVID-19 mortality gradients across Japanese municipalities, plus long-COVID neurological outcomes at Einstein. Right now I'm also decomposing Japan's pandemic-era excess mortality by ICD-10 cause, to see what actually drove the excess beyond COVID itself.
Stress-testing the U.S. Medicaid workforce on 2.5 billion T-MSIS claims across 51 jurisdictions (2018–2024). Also structural barriers to NCD care in conflict-affected Northwest Syria.
Happy to hear from you. Collaborations, questions, or just to say hi.
Manuscripts in preparation and references available on request.