DR. Reza Malekzadeh
Gastroenterologist
Biography:
Reza Malekzadeh is distinguished professor of medicine and director of the digestive disease research Institute at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He has worked in various capacities in Iranian medical education and research institutes. He was chancellor of Shiraz University; Minister of Health and Medical Education; and secretary of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences. He has received 15 national awards including Razi, Avicenna, Yalda, Hadavi, Tabatbaei and Iranian Science awards. He is a member of 18 national and international academies and scientific societies. He has published more than 550 papers in international journals with >50000 citations and Included in top 1% world highly cited scientist in the clinical Medicine in Essential Science Indicators and his h-index is 76 in Scopus in 2018. He has established the Golestan Cohort study the largest cohort study of esophageal and gastric Cancer in Middle East and North Africa in Northern Iran.
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List of 2019 Publications:
GBD 2017 Colorectal Cancer Collaborators. Safiri S, Sepanlou SG, Ikuta KS, Bisignano C, Salimzadeh H, Delavari A, Ansari R, Roshandel G, Merat S, Fitzmaurice C, …… Zandian H, Zhang ZJ, Murray CJL, Naghavi M, Malekzadeh R. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Oct 21. pii: S2468-1253(19)30345-0.
2. The global, regional, and national burden of pancreatic cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.GBD 2017 Pancreatic Cancer Collaborators. Pourshams A, Sepanlou SG, Ikuta KS, Bisignano C, Safiri S, Roshandel G, Sharif M, Khatibian M, Fitzmaurice C,…..Mohamadnejad M… Zadnik V, Zhang ZJ, Malekzadeh R, Naghavi M. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Oct 21. pii: S2468-1253(19)30347-4.
3.The global, regional, and national burden of inflammatory bowel disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. GBD 2017 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Collaborators. Alatab S, Sepanlou SG, Ikuta K, Vahedi H, Bisignano C, Safiri S, Sadeghi A, Nixon MR, Abdoli A, Abolhassani H, Alipour V, Almadi MAH, Almasi-Hashiani A, Anushiravani A, Arabloo J, Atique S, Awasthi A, Badawi A, Baig AAA, Bhala N, Bijani A, Biondi A, Borzì AM, Burke KE, Carvalho F, Daryani A, Dubey M, Eftekhari A, Fernandes E, Fernandes JC, Fischer F, Haj-Mirzaian A, Haj-Mirzaian A, Hasanzadeh A, Hashemian M, Hay SI, Hoang CL, Househ M, Ilesanmi OS, Jafari Balalami N, James SL, Kengne AP, Malekzadeh MM, Merat S, Meretoja TJ, Mestrovic T, Mirrakhimov EM, Mirzaei H, Mohammad KA, Mokdad AH, Monasta L, Negoi I, Nguyen TH, Nguyen CT, Pourshams A, Poustchi H, Rabiee M, Rabiee N, Ramezanzadeh K, Rawaf DL, Rawaf S, Rezaei N, Robinson SR, Ronfani L, Saxena S, Sepehrimanesh M, Shaikh MA, Sharafi Z, Sharif M, Siabani S, Sima AR, Singh JA, Soheili A, Sotoudehmanesh R, Suleria HAR, Tesfay BE, Tran B, Tsoi D, Vacante M, Wondmieneh AB, Zarghi A, Zhang ZJ, Dirac M, Malekzadeh R, Naghavi M. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Oct 21. pii: S2468-1253(19)30333-4.
4.The global, regional, and national burden of stomach cancer in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2017. GBD 2017 Stomach Cancer Collaborators. Etemadi A, Safiri S, Sepanlou SG, Ikuta K, Bisignano C, Shakeri R, Amani M, Fitzmaurice C,…… Zamani M, Zamanian M, Zandian H, Zarghi A, Zhang ZJ, Naghavi M, Malekzadeh R. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Oct 21. pii: S2468-1253(19)30328-0.
5.Socioeconomic gradient in physical activity: findings from the PERSIAN cohort study. Kazemi Karyani A, Karmi Matin B, Soltani S, Rezaei S, Soofi M, Salimi Y, Moradinazar M, Hajizadeh M, Pasdar Y, Hamzeh B, Barzegar L, Haghdoost AA, Malekzadeh R, Poustchi H, Mohammadi Z, Faramarzi E, Safarpour AR, Pourfarzi F, Moosazadeh M, Nejatizadeh A, Farjam M, Vahabzadeh D, Ahmadi A, Ghorat F, Ahmadi J, Mansour-Ghanaei F, Mirjalili MR, Eslami S, Maharlouei N, Tabatabaei SM, Sarvandian S, Najafi F.BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 21;19(1):1312.
6.Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017.Burstein R, Henry NJ, Collison ML, Marczak LB, Sligar A, Watson S, Marquez N, Abbasalizad-Farhangi M, Abbasi M, Maleki A, ……..Malekzadeh R, Malta DC,……… Zodpey S, Murray CJL, Hay SI. Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7778):353-358.
7.Meat intake and risk of gastric cancer in the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project.
Ferro A, Rosato V, Rota M, Costa AR, Morais S, Pelucchi C, Johnson KC, Hu J, Palli D, Ferraroni M, Zhang ZF, Bonzi R, Yu GP, Peleteiro B, López-Carrillo L, Tsugane S, Hamada GS, Hidaka A, Zaridze D, Maximovitch D, Vioque J, Navarrete-Munoz EM, Aragonés N, Martín V, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Bertuccio P, Ward MH, Malekzadeh R, Pourfarzi F, Mu L, Lópes-Cervantes M, Persiani R, Kurtz RC, Lagiou A, Lagiou P, Boffetta P, Boccia S, Negri E, Camargo MC, Curado MP, La Vecchia C, Lunet N. Int J Cancer. 2019 Oct 4.
8.The global burden of non-typhoidal salmonella invasive disease: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.GBD 2017 Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Invasive Disease Collaborators. Stanaway JD, Parisi A, ……Malekzadeh R, Melese A, …..Zaidi Z, Murray CJL, Crump JA. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 Sep 24. pii: S1473-3099(19)30418-9.
9.Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, Fitzmaurice C, Abate D, Abbasi N, Majeed A, Maleki A, …….Malekzadeh R, …., ….Zendehdel K, Zenebe ZM, Zewale TA, Ziapour A, Zodpey S, Murray CJL.JAMA Oncol. 2019 Sep 27.
10.Distinct genetic variation and heterogeneity of the Iranian population. Mehrjoo Z, Fattahi Z, Beheshtian M, Mohseni M, Poustchi H, Ardalani F, Jalalvand K, Arzhangi S, Mohammadi Z, Khoshbakht S, Najafi F, Nikuei P, Haddadi M, Zohrehvand E, Oladnabi M, Mohammadzadeh A, Jafari MH, Akhtarkhavari T, Gooshki ES, Haghdoost A, Najafipour R, Niestroj LM, Helwing B, Gossmann Y, Toliat MR, Malekzadeh R, Nürnberg P, Kahrizi K, Najmabadi H, Nothnagel M. PLoS Genet. 2019 Sep 24;15(9):e1008385.
11.Effects of cognitive behavioral therapy on weight maintenance after successful weight loss in women; a randomized clinical trial. Madjd A, Taylor MA, Delavari A, Malekzadeh R, Macdonald IA, Farshchi HR.Eur J Clin Nutr. 2019 Aug 28.
Sotoudehmanesh R, Ali-Asgari A, Khatibian M, Mohamadnejad M, Merat S, Sadeghi A, Keshtkar A, Bagheri M, Delavari A, Amani M, Vahedi H, Nasseri-Moghaddam S, Sima A, Eloubeidi MA, Malekzadeh R.
Endoscopy. 2019 Oct;51(10):915-921
13.Effectiveness of polypill for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (PolyIran): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial. Roshandel G, Khoshnia M, Poustchi H, Hemming K, Kamangar F, Gharavi A, Ostovaneh MR, Nateghi A, Majed M, Navabakhsh B, Merat S, Pourshams A, Nalini M, Malekzadeh F, Sadeghi M, Mohammadifard N, Sarrafzadegan N, Naemi-Tabiei M, Fazel A, Brennan P, Etemadi A, Boffetta P, Thomas N, Marshall T, Cheng KK, Malekzadeh R. Lancet. 2019 Aug 24;394(10199):672-683.
14.Author's reply to comment on "A prospective study of tea drinking temperature…" by Islami et al.
Etemadi A, Islami F, Abnet CC, Malekzadeh R. Int J Cancer. 2019 Nov 15;145(10):2888-2889.
15.Comparing Anthropometric Indicators of Visceral and General Adiposity as Determinants of Overall and Cardiovascular Mortality. Nalini M, Sharafkhah M, Poustchi H, Sepanlou SG, Pourshams A, Radmard AR, Khoshnia M, Gharavi A, Dawsey SM, Abnet CC, Boffetta P, Brennan P, Sotoudeh M, Nikmanesh A, Merat S, Etemadi A, Shakeri R, Malekzadeh R, Kamangar F. Arch Iran Med. 2019 Jun 1;22(6):301-309.
16.Iranome: A catalog of genomic variations in the Iranian population. Fattahi Z, Beheshtian M, Mohseni M, Poustchi H, Sellars E, Nezhadi SH, Amini A, Arzhangi S, Jalalvand K, Jamali P, Mohammadi Z, Davarnia B, Nikuei P, Oladnabi M, Mohammadzadeh A, Zohrehvand E, Nejatizadeh A, Shekari M, Bagherzadeh M, Shamsi-Gooshki E, Börno S, Timmermann B, Haghdoost A, Najafipour R, Khorram Khorshid HR, Kahrizi K, Malekzadeh R, Akbari MR, Najmabadi H. Hum Mutat. 2019 Nov;40(11):1968-1984
17.Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Orpana HM, Marczak LB, Arora M, Abbasi N, Abdulkader RS, Abebe Z, Abraha HN, Afarideh M, Afshari M, Ahmadi A, …… Majdzadeh R, Malekzadeh R, Manda AL, ………Zaidi M, Zamani CJL, Murray M, Naghavi. Global Burden of Disease Self-Harm Collaborators. BMJ. 2019 Feb 6;364:l94.
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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor in Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences |
1982-1992 |
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Professor and Chairman in Department of Gastroenterology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
1993-2007 |
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Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine |
1997-2002 |
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A 27-year of experience in teaching and supervising medical students, residents of internal medicine, and fellows of gastroenterology |
1990- 2018 |
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Director of the Digestive Diseases Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Center, Teheran University of Medical Sciences |
1993-2018 |
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Member of the Internal Medicine Board in Iran |
1997-2018 |
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Director and Member of the Gastroenterology Board in Iran |
1997-2018 |
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Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
2008-2018 |
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Supervising a total of 114 theses by students in General Medicine, residents in Internal Medicine, and fellows in Gastroenterology |
1982-2018 |
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