Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence; Multi-modal reasoning; Diagnostic Safety; Healthcare Quality and Safety, Alignment Problem; Lung Cancer; Stroke.
Experiences & Accomplishments
I am an Assistant Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. My research interest is in the application of data science and artificial intelligence to improve healthcare quality and safety. I hold a primary appointment at the Department of Epidemiology, alongside a joint appointment in the School of Medicine's Department of Neurology, and School of Engineering. My work extends to several centers and programs, including the Center for Diagnostic Excellence, the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and the Center for Humanitarian Health. He is also a fellow of the 2024 Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). I co-instruct the "Data Science and AI for Public Health and Biomedical Sciences" courses at the Department of Biostatistics alongside Professor Brian Caffo. We teach our graduate students how to develop, train, and validate AI models to solve real world problems. Finally, I'm the recipient of AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08) with focus on improving cancer diagnostic safety at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
My goal is to reimagine how we deliver clinical care by building a safe AI model for genuine knowledge discovery. Such model can reason across different modalities to improve diagnostic accuracy.
Honors & Awards
1992-1997 Honor Student. Baghdad Music and Ballet School. Baghdad, Iraq.
1998 National Scholarship Award, Baghdad University College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq.
2000 Honor Student. Baghdad College of Medicine. Baghdad, Iraq.
2002 Honor Student. Baghdad College of Medicine. Baghdad, Iraq
2008 Appreciation Certificate. Baghdad University, President Office. Baghdad, Iraq.
2010 Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Award, U.S. Department of State, DC, USA.
2011 US President Appreciation Certificate. The White House, DC, USA.
2012 Atlas Corps Award, Atlas Service Corps, DC. USA.
2013 99 under 33 year most influential leader, Diplomatic Courier Magazine. DC, USA.
2013 Sommer Scholarship Award, Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA.
2014 Post-Doctoral Award, Welch Centre, Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA.
2016 Biotech Leaders of Tomorrow (LoT), Biotech Forum, Maryland, DC and Virgin area.
2016 Tech Transfer Seed Grants Award for “Alexa-Based Digital Health Coach: a voice interactive wellness product”
2016 State of Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund Faculty Award (two awards)
2017 State of Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund Translational Research Award (two awards)
2017 Young Physician Leader, Berlin, Germany.
2024 Insitute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Fellowship.
Select Publications
Selected Publications:
Hassoon A, Ng C, Lehmann H, Rupani H, Peterson S, Horberg MA, Liberman AL, Sharp AL, Johansen MC, McDonald K, Austin JM, Newman-Toker DE. Computable phenotype for diagnostic error: developing the data schema for application of symptom-disease pair analysis of diagnostic error (SPADE). Diagnosis (Berl). 2024 Aug 1;11(3):295-302. doi: 10.1515/dx-2023-0138. eCollection 2024 Aug 1. PubMed PMID: 38696319; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11392038.
Newman-Toker DE, Peterson SM, Badihian S, Hassoon A, Nassery N, Parizadeh D, Wilson LM, Jia Y, Omron R, Tharmarajah S, Guerin L, Bastani PB, Fracica EA, Kotwal S, Robinson KA. Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2022 Dec. Report No.: 22(23)-EHC043. PMID: 36574484.
(Liberman AL*, Hassoon A*), Fanai M, Badihian S, Rupani H, Peterson SM, Sebestyen K, Wang Z, Zhu Y, Lipton RB, Newman-Toker DE. Cerebrovascular disease hospitalizations following emergency department headache visits: A nested case-control study. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Jan;29(1):41-50. doi: 10.1111/acem.14353. PMID: 34309135; PMCID: PMC8766867.
Hassoon A, Baig Y, Naiman DQ, Celentano DD, Lansey D, Stearns V, Coresh J, Schrack J, Martin SS, Yeh HC, Zeilberger H, Appel LJ. Randomized trial of two artificial intelligence coaching interventions to increase physical activity in cancer survivors. NPJ Digit Med. 2021 Dec 9;4(1):168. doi: 10.1038/s41746-021-00539-9. PMID: 34887491; PMCID: PMC8660785.
Johns Hopkins University Qatar National Strategy Team. National Quality and Safety Indicator’s Review Report. https://www.moph.gov.qa/home-en. 2017.
Johns Hopkins University Qatar National Strategy Team. Qatar National Public Health Strategy 2017-2022. https://www.moph.gov.qa/home-en. 2016.