Shireen Hayatghaibi, PhD

Health Services Researcher, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Radiology

shireen.hayatghaibi@cchmc.org

About

Biography

My research focuses on understanding how healthcare costs inform the medical decisions of both clinicians and patients. My overall goal is to reduce the cost of advanced imaging, making it more affordable and accessible to patients and families.

I became interested in health economics due to my personal experience as a young adult needing medical care and not having insurance. This experience, along with the sticker shock of medical bills, opened my eyes to the need to understand the economic complexity of the healthcare system. My objective is to make positive changes that enhance the affordability and efficiency of the healthcare system.

I’ve been a researcher for more than six years and began working at Cincinnati Children’s in 2021. My work is published in many well-respected journals including, Pediatric Radiology, Journal of the American College of Radiology and Academic Radiology.

Services and Specialties

Radiology and Medical Imaging

Interests

Cost of medical care; patient preferences; medical decision making; new technology assessment

Research Areas

Publications

Can Modern NLP Systems Reliably Annotate Chest Radiography Exams? A Pre-Purchase Evaluation and Comparative Study of Solutions from AWS, Google, Azure, John Snow Labs, and Open-Source Models on an Independent Pediatric Dataset. Hegde, S; Ninan, MM; Dillman, JR; Hayatghaibi, S; Babcock, L; Somasundaram, E. 2025; abs/2505.23030.

A Scoping Review of Risk Presentation in Patient Decision Aids: Communicating Risk in Imaging. Baird, TA; Previtera, M; Brady, S; Wright, DR; Trout, AT; Hayatghaibi, SE. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 2025; 22:172-182.

Understanding Provider Cost of MRI for Appendicitis in Children: A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Analysis. Debnath, P; Hayatghaibi, S; Trout, AT; Ayyala, RS. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 2024; 21:1668-1676.

Out-of-Pocket Costs for Vesicoureteral Reflux Imaging in Commercially Insured Children From 2012 to 2021. Hayatghaibi, SE; Wright, DR; Trout, AT. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2024; 223:e2431399.

Vesicoureteral Reflux Imaging: A National Analysis in Commercially Insured Children From 2012 to 2021. Hayatghaibi, SE; Wright, DR; Trout, AT. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2024; 223:e2431206.

Meeting the Needs of Patient Preferences in Imaging. Hayatghaibi, SE; Trout, AT; Wright, DR. Academic Radiology. 2024; 31:3015-3017.

Imaging of Vesicoureteral Reflux: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review. Cajigas-Loyola, SC; Chow, JS; Hayatghaibi, S; Iyer, RS; Kwon, J; Rubesova, E; Sánchez-Jacob, R; Wyers, M; Otero, HJ. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2024; 222:e2329741.

Patient Preferences in Diagnostic Imaging: A Scoping Review. Baird, TA; Wright, DR; Britto, MT; Lipstein, EA; Trout, AT; Hayatghaibi, SE. The Patient: Patient Centered Outcomes Research. 2023; 16:579-591.

Trends in Anesthesia/Sedation for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Encounters in Pediatric Emergency Departments, 2012-2022. Hayatghaibi, SE; Kandil, AI; Zhang, B; Alves, VV; Ayyala, RS; Dillman, JR; Trout, AT. JAMA pediatrics. 2023; 177:1105-1107.

When Price Transparency Still Leaves Us in the Dark. Bassett, HK; Hayatghaibi, S. Hospital Pediatrics. 2023; 13:e117-e119.