1. Ali Ataabadi
1318 Glenwood Canyon Ln. docali1952@yahoo.com - 281-352-2052
Houston, Texas 77077 281-352-2052
ResearchScientist and Grant Writer
Spearshead Associates Inc. Houston, TX December 2005 to Current
Responsibilities
Conduct social & behavioral research, focus groups and provides educational training such as
survey development and administration and program evaluation.
 Contribute to policy planning at local, state, and national levels, gathering data via
personal, telephone, mail, and web interviews.
 Conduct program evaluation to improve and account for nonprofit and for-profit
activities; collecting, analyzing, and using information to assist upper management to
answer questions about projects, policies and programs, particularly about their
effectiveness and efficiency.
 Tracking database system, Analyzesdata,staff traininganddevelopment.
 Grant writing and coaching for grant writing.
Accomplishments
Enabled and assisted upper management to answer questions about projects, policies and
programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency.
Skills Used
Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data to demonstrate the company's conductivities
and effectiveness..
Contract Researcher, Data Base Management Systems
Scientifics Solutions Houston, TX January 2000 to November 2005
Responsibilities
Data collections, data verification, data mining, database management, data extraction for
analysis, statistical analysis, report generation and interpretation, administration of grants and
monitoring programs for compliance.
Accomplishments
Creation of state of art database managements for research and compliances for grant awarded
agencies.
Skills Used
Computer information system and using various statistical analysis. Following the agencies
mandated policies and procedures from granting agencies.

2. Principal ResearchInvestigator
Affiliated System Corporation & National Institute on Drug abuse Houston, TX March 1997 to
February 2000.
Responsibilities
Investigated social networking of drug users, their mental status, risk behaviors and vulnerability
of contracting HIV/AIDS.
Accomplishments
Collected, analyzed, generated reports and published findings in peer review journals.
Skills Used
Database managements and statistical analysis using various statistical tools.
Co-Investigator / Data Base Manager
Affiliated Systems Corporation Houston, TX August 1991 to December 1996
Responsibilities
conducted and assist in conducting research on drug users risk behaviors for state of Texas
Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Agency. Data input and verification of accuracy of
input data, statistical analyses and generated report.
Collaborated and Conducted the Ryan White Needs Assessment for Harris County Department
of health; data input and verify data and run analyses and generated report.
Instrument validation, data entry, and verification, analyses of data and report generation for the
National AIDS Demonstration Research project.
Accomplishments
Instruments validation, assisted in creation of several databases for the company and
collaboration with state Department of Health agencies.
EDUCATION
Doctorate in Counseling, Texas Southern University - Houston, TX 1991 to 1997
Master in Counseling, Texas Southern University - Houston, TX 1987 to 1989
Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems Texas Southern University - Houston, TX
1976 to 1980
PRESENTATIONS
“Personality profile,” Johnson Space Center Federal Women’s Week, Education: Back to the
Future. Johnson Space Center Federal Women’s Program Committee, Houston, Texas, July
1989. In collaboration with Dr. Joseph L. Jefferson.

3. “School work-The stress factor,” Johnson Space Center Federal Women’s Week, Education:
Back to the Future. Johnson Space Center Federal Women’s Program Committee, Houston,
Texas, July 1989. In collaboration with Dr. Joseph L. Jefferson.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Elwood, W.N. and Ataabadi, A.N. (1996). Tuned in and turned off: Injection drug and cocaine
users’ responses to media intervention messages. Communication Reports, 9(1), 1-11.
Elwood, W.N. and Ataabadi, A.N. (1997). Influence and interpersonal and mass-mediated
interventions on injection drug and crack users: Diffusion of innovation and HIV risk
behaviors. International Journal of the Addictions, 32 (5): 635-651.
Elwood, W.N. and Ataabadi, A.N. (In submission) Look who’s saying “no” now: Assessing
public health interventions with injection drug and crack users. Evaluation Review.
Montoya, I.D., Trevino, R.A., and Ataabadi, A.N. (1998) Effectiveness of public health media
campaigns in a sample of out-of-treatment drug users. Journal of Health Care
Marketing.
Richard, A.J., Carlson, J.W., Montoya, I.D., and Ataabadi, A.N. (in submission) the medium and
message: the influence of interpersonal interventions and public health message
placement of the HIV risk behaviors of out-of-treatment drug users. Journal of AIDS and
Human Retrovirology.
Montoya, I.D., Richard, A.J., Ataabadi, A.N., and Atkinson, J. (1998). Hematological
considerations in out-of-treatment drug users. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol
Abuse, 24 (3).
CERTIFICATIONS/LICSENCES/ASSOCIATIONS
The Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Training Program in Compliance with the
Requirements of the Texas Safe Camps Act.
Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (TLPC).
Meritorious Service Award SPECTRUM XXV for services in Health Care Programs
American Psychological Association.

4. American Counseling Association.
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
International Association of Addictions & Offender Counselors.
Certificate of Appreciation from Region IV Education Service Center.
Certificate of Completion for AIDS-Talk.
SPECIAL STUDIES
Northern Arizona State University, Fourth Science Forum by NIDA, Research Symposium on
the Prevention of HIV. Principal Investigator, 1997.
Johns Hopkins University, Study in Social Network Drug Use and Health Care Management,
1997.
Chicago State University, Study in Statistical procedures, Structural Equation Modeling in the
Health Science, Regression using LISREL-8, supervised by Karl Joreskog & Dag Sorbom,
1998.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2016-Present member of the editorial board of the Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research,
which is published by the International Institute of Research Development, Inc. (IIRD).
www.internationalird.org.
2012- 2015 Institutional Review Board (IRB) Committee, Prairie View A&M University,
Texas A&M System - Member
2009-2012 the Iranian-American Medical Association, Member, Houston Texas Chapter
2001-2002 the New Direction, Board Member, Houston, Texas