Reza Malekzadeh

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Reza Malekzadeh
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preceded byIradj Fazel
Succeeded byAlireza Marandi
Personal details
Born (1952-01-16) 16 January 1952 (age 72)
Fars Province, Iran
Political partyExecutives of Construction Party
Alma materShiraz University of Medical Sciences

Reza Malekzadeh (

gastroenterologist
.

Career

Malekzadeh studied medicine at

Internal Medicine in Shiraz University where he did as well his fellowship in gastroenterology. In 1985, he joined the department of gastroenterology at Free Royal Hospital in London. After his return to Iran, he got a faculty position at Shiraz University and later on at Tehran University of Medical Sciences [1] where he is currently a full professor of internal medicine. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Birmingham
, UK.

Reza Malekzadeh was the

Iran's government from 1991-1993. From 2000-2004, Malekzadeh was the secretary of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences [2], and since 2005, the Academy's Vice-President for Research. He is the director of Digestive Disease Research Center [3], and was appointed as the director of Shariati Hospital [4] in 2007. Dr Malekzadeh is also the Deputy-Editor of Archives of Iranian Medicine [5]
.

He is working on a big cancer cohort in Bandar-Turkeman, Golestan Province of Iran to investigate the environmental and genetic causes of oesophageal cancer.

Achievements

Besides being a renowned

TWAS in 2004.[6]

Reza Malekzadeh received the "Permanent Personages Award" in the Third Permanent Personages session held on October 22, 2003. This national award is given to the most outstanding and memorable citizens of Iran. He has numerous reputable scientific publications in gastroenterology and liver diseases.[7] Dr Malekzadeh was selected as distinguished professor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2008.

Views

During the

biological attack. On 13 March, Reza Malekzadeh rejected this theory.[4]

Family life

Dr Malekzadeh was born in village baladeh in Fars. Reza Malekzadeh has been married for 31 years, and since then has had 4 children, three girls and one boy, three of which have followed his footsteps in the study of medicine and one who is currently studying architecture. He still visits Baladeh regularly and contributes massively to humanitarian work in the area.

Memberships

  • Member of the International Association for Study of the Liver (IASL)
  • Member of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA)
  • Member of the European Association for Gastroenterology & Endoscopy (EAGE)
  • Member of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
  • Secretary of the Iranian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Member of the Iranian Society of Physicians
  • Counsellor of the Iranian Board of Internal Medicine
  • Permanent Member of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Member of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Talks of the 343th meeting of the 3rd legislature" (in Persian). Library, Museum and Document Center of Islamic Consultative Assembly. 15 January 1991. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Talks of the 139th meeting of the 4th legislature" (in Persian). Library, Museum and Document Center of Islamic Consultative Assembly. 14 August 1993. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  3. ^ "All ministers of the 30 years" (in Persian). Khabar Online. 15 August 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Coronavirus: Iran's deputy health minister rejects biological warfare theory". Al Arabiya English. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.

External links

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