Yasna Rostam Abadi

Postdoctoral Associate

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (2024)
• MPH, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Medicine (2021)
• MD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Medicine (2021)

Yasna Rostam Abadi, MD, MPH, is a Yale Psychiatry resident in the Neuroscience Research Training Program. During medical training, she 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. Following graduation, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, focusing on improving addiction treatment in primary care and hospital settings. 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.