Yasna Rostam Abadi

Yasna Rostam Abadi, MD, MPH, is a Yale Psychiatry resident in the Neuroscience Research Training Program. She received her MD-MPH from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, where she was recognized with the Avicenna Awards for Excellence in Education, Health Care Quality Improvement, and Social Activism. During medical school, she served as Chair and Head of the Central Council of the Students’ Scientific Research Center. She also conducted research at the Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, a WHO Collaborating Center, focusing on the epidemiology of substance use and its health consequences in Iran and the Eastern Mediterranean region. Following graduation, Dr. Rostam Abadi completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, working on three NIH-funded multi-center clinical trials aimed at improving addiction treatment in primary care and hospital settings. Her work has been published in The Lancet Psychiatry, The Lancet Global Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Addiction. During residency, she became interested in how visual perception contributes to the formation of beliefs and behaviors, and in leveraging eye-tracking methods to study these processes across various psychopathologies.