MEDICAL TRAINING
SPECIALTY TRAINING: physical medicine and rehabilitation, Shiraz (Shiraz-Iran) university of medical sciences. September 2003
DIPLOMA OF MEDICINE: Mashad (Mashad- Iran) university of medical sciences, December 1997
LICENSES
Iranian board certified, board qualified, fifth rank in national board examinations, 2003
THESIS
Constitutional factors affecting central loop of the H reflex latency
TRAINING COURSE
Spinal manipulation, December 2004-present
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Assistant professor, academic center for education, culture and research, Shahid Beheshti medical branch, 2006-present
Member of the committee of science, the first international congress of minimally invasive spinal treatments, 2005
Member of the committee of science, Iranian society of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 2003-present
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Medical director of the ACECR spine center, November 2006-present
Consultant in electrodiagnostic study and musculoskeletal pain management and technical manager of the physical therapy ward (November 2003-May 2007): Takhti clinic
Consultant in rehabilitation: Iranian Red Crescent society: (July 2005-March 2006)
Medical director and a member of expert panel of ACECR multidisciplinary pain clinic:
(April 2004 - July 2005) http://www.irpaincenter.org/clinic/clinic%20board.htm
Resident of physical medicine and rehabilitation: three years in Shiraz (Shiraz-Iran) university (1999-2003).
General practitioner: eighteen months, in rural areas of Khorasan province
Intern: Imam Reza and Ghaem hospitals (Mashad medical university) for 17 months.
RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Demographic differences between workers with and without low back pain in a steel plant, submitted to BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, in process
A new approach to estimation of the number of synapses of central synapses included in the H reflex, BMC Neurology 2005, 5:13
A high prevalence of cumulative trauma disorders in Iranian instrumentalists; BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2004, 5:35
Effects of age and leg length upon the central loop of the Gastrocnemius-Soleus H reflex latency; BMC Neurology 2004 Sep 3; 4(1):11. Epub 2004 Sep 03 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15347428
GRANTS
Epidemiological study on low back pain among workers of Mobarake steel plant (accepted by Iranian journal of orthopedic surgery)-2006
Prevalence of fibromyalgia among workers with chronic low back pain and workers without low back pain in Mobarake steel plant -2006
Prevalence of psychological disorders among workers with chronic low back pain and workers without low back pain in Mobarake steel plant -2006
REFEREE OF
The first international Iranian congress on minimally invasive spinal treatments, 2005
WORKSHOPS
As a panel member in first Iranian congress on electrodiagnostic studies in peripheral nerve injuries, 2007
As a panel member and lecturer on "low back pain" in the fourth symposium of Iranian general practitioners, 2003
LECTURES
The first Iranian congress on pain management (June, 2007): multidisciplinary approach to the pain patient.
The eights congress of physical medicine and rehabilitation on: organization of multidisciplinary pain clinics, 2006
In At – hari center, on: physical therapy and pain, 2005
Neurological rehabilitation seminar on: stroke rehabilitation, 2005
PAPERS PRESENTED
The first Iranian conference on spinal cord injury, on: Spinal cord injury and sports
The tenth international Iranian congress on neurology and electrophysiology and the sixth Iranian congress on physical medicine ad rehabilitation, on: Constitutional factors affecting central loop of the H reflex latency
The sixth Iranian congress on physical medicine ad rehabilitation, on: Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain syndromes among Iranian instrumentalists
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
A few articles in national newspapers on: “performing artists' medicine", “what is physical medicine and rehabilitation"; “Myofascial pain syndromes”, and "Metro and old age", low back pain, neck pain and three radio interviews on “low back pain