Dr. Abbas Smiley is a Doctor of Medicine and also holds a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology. He has worked concurrently as a physician and in the academic research field for over 20 years. He completed his Ph.D. in Epidemiology at Indiana University, where he completes research and teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He works as an assistant professor at New York Medical College and as a research scientist at Westchester Medical Center. He has mentored more than 40 medical students and research fellows to conduct research projects and publish peer-reviewed articles by applying various associated data analysis methods, such as semiparametric analysis, survival analysis, longitudinal modeling, classification and regression tree analysis, data mining, and meta-analysis, using R, SAS, and SPSS. Dr. Smiley was nominated for the “Rising Star Dean’s Faculty Award” by New York Medical College in Mar 2022. His current research interests include rheumatological disorders and sleep studies.