Nina Shaafi Kabiri

Dr. Nina Shaafi Kabiri is a Research Scientist in the department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to joining BU, she worked as a Psycho-vocational/educational evaluator at a rehabilitation center.

Dr. Kabiri teaches in two Healthcare Emergency Management (HEM) program courses: Experimental Design & Statistics and The Psychology and Sociology of Disasters and Methods of Risk Communication. In addition, she is a member of the Laboratory for Human Neurobiology and is the laboratory’s principal psychometrician.

She graduated from York University in Toronto with honors with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology (double major). She holds a Masters Degree in Healthcare Emergency Management (HEM) and a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from Boston University.

Dr. Kabiri’s research interests include understanding cognitive functioning in various pathologies such as Schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. 

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Publications:

Corse, T., Thomas, K., Broderick, J., Kabiri, N. S., Margulies, J., Masri, T., … McMahon, M. (2015). Using Ebola as a Lens to Examine Medical Waste Sterilization: Examine Medical Waste Sterilization. World Medical & Health Policy, 7(4), 402–411. http://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.164

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Syed, S., Bali, T., Karlin, D.R, Binneman, B., Tan, Y., Steinman, A., Cote, A.C., Thomas, K.C. Evaluation of the use of the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) in healthy volunteers and patients with schizophrenia (under review).

Cote, A.C., Loth, S.E., Shaafi Kabiri, N., Bhangu, J Zumwalt, A.C., Moss, M.B., Thomas, K.C. Improving triage accuracy in first responders: Measurement of short structured protocols to improve identification of salient triage features (Under Review).

Presentations:

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Cote, A.C., Dupee, B.N., Detheridge, C.N., Wager, T., Ward, S., Cai, X., Bhangu, J., Thomas, K.C. Intensive Measurement of Circadian Rhythm in Alzheimer’s Disease – A feasibility study. Poster presentation delivered at the Advances in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Therapies AN AAT-AD/PD Focus Meeting, Torino, Italy, March 2018.

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Yu, S., Hirsch, A., Lee, C., Jaffe, C.C., Xiang, H., Thomas, K., Bloch, B. Utility of a patient specific MR-based 3D-printed Prostate Model for Dosimetric Validation of Stereotactic Body Radiation to the Prostate with Simultaneous Integrated Dose Escalation to the Dominant Lesion. Poster presentation delivered at the European Society of Radiology meeting, Vienna, Austria, March 2018.

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Mendez, N., Cote, A.C., Dupee, B.N., Bhangu, J., Thomas, K.C. Intra-Individual Variability and its Relations with Cognitive Functioning in Healthy Volunteers and Subjects with Schizophrenia. Poster presentation delivered at the International Neuropsychological Society meeting, Washington, DC, February, 2018.

Detheridge, C. N., Rolph, T., Shaafi Kabiri, N., Tan, Y., Steinman, A., Karlin, D., Bali, T., Babamoto, K., Thomas, K. “Comparison of paper and electronic versions of the EQ-5D and PDQ-8 in patients with Parkinson’s Disease.” Poster presentation delivered at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Disease, Vienna, Austria, March 2017.

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Dupee, B.D., Cote, A.C., Krengel, M.H., Thomas, K.C. Continuous Performance Test-Identical Pairs (CPT-IP): Characterization and Relation to Other Attention and Working Memory Tasks. Poster presentation delivered at the International Neuropsychological Society meeting, New Orleans, LA, February, 2017.

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Cote, A.C., Dupee, B.N., Fried, P.J., Krengel, M.H., Thomas, K.C. Test-retest reliability of the MATRICS Cognitive Consensus Battery (MCCB) in persons with schizophrenia and healthy volunteers: A non-interventional study. Poster presentation delivered at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA, November, 2016.

Syed, N., Shaafi Kabiri, N., Bali, T., Karlin, D., Binneman, B., Tan, Y., Thomas, K. Use of the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) in healthy volunteer and subjects with schizophrenia. Poster presentation delivered at Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA, November, 2016.

Shaafi Kabiri, N., Brooks, C.R., Kasthuri, N., Comery, T., Thomas, C. K., Fried, J. P. Informing participants impacts minute-by-minute blink count, but not average blink rate. Poster presentation delivered at Society for Neuroscience meeting, Chicago, IL, October, 2015.