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1. Personal Information
First Name: Amir
Last Name: Moghadam-Ahmadi
Birth date and Place: 13/01/1980; Tehran, Iran
Marriage Status: Married
Phone: +989123681421
Fax: +98345237683
hmadi a_moghadama, [email protected]:
ac.ira_moghadamahmadi@rums., .com@yahoo
2. Medical and research degrees and responsibilities Graduated as a general practitioner (MD) form Iran University of
Medical Sciences (in Tehran) in 2004.
Worked as the GP commitment period for the government till 2006.
Completed Neurology Residency in Mashhad University of Medical
Sciences in 2011 and passed the neurology board exam.
Assistant Professor of neurology in Rafsanjan University of Medical
Sciences since 2012 to 2017.
Passed an 7 month educational period (September 2015-March 2016)
for cerebral angiography under the supervision of Professor Afshin
Borhani-Haqiqi (neurointervention and vascular neurology fellow
form USA) in Shiraz University with certification, and performing
several diagnostic cerebral angiography (and a few cases of carotid
angioplasty, intra-arterial tPA injection for strokes and CCB injection
for vasospasm after SAH) since then.
More than 50 cases of IV tPA administration per year in stroke care
unit of our university hospital (since 3 years ago).
Local coordinator for SITS international stroke registry program and
also national registry of CVT patients.
Associate Professor since the beginning of 2018.
Passed several workshops and short courses on neurosonology
(vascular and muscle/nerve sonography), MRI physics and
applications in neuroimaging, computer sciences and applications,
internet, research methods and medical databases, epidemiology and
statistics, writing and publishing scientific articles, clinical hypnotism
and hypnotherapy, movement disorders and Botulinum toxin
injection, myology school, animal studies, preclinical studies,
evidence-based medicine, medical and research ethics, etc.
Head of the Neurology Ward of the university hospital of Ali-ebn-
abitalib (largest hospital in Rafsanjan) since 5 years ago.
Head of the Clinical Research Development Center (2012-2016).
Member of the central research committee of the university.
Core member (1 of the 5 core members) of the Non-Communicable
Diseases Research Center (which encompasses the Rafsanjan Cohort
Study with prospective follow-up of more than 10,000 recruited
people , a division of Persian Megacohort with more than a few
hundred thousand recruited people in 10 provinces).
Core clinical member of the Physiology-Pharmacology Research
Center.
Core clinical member of the developing studies center and also Health
System Research committee.
Top clinical researcher of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences
for 3 years
Qualified neurologist for legal and forensic medical issues and also
the committee for confirming brain death
Good interpersonal relationships and cooperative research with other
faculties and also teaching in the field of neurology and neuroscience
to the medical students, Nursing students, physiology Master’s and
PhD students.
Many oral presentations and posters in various congresses, seminars,
CME, etc.
Guiding more than 30 thesis of the undergraduate and postgraduate
students, some of them, which are related to the field of vascular
neurology and stroke, are as follows: 1. Evaluating the intra- and extra-cranial arteries stenosis in patients with CVA,
TIA and Lacunar infarction
2. Evaluating the safety and efficacy of IV tPA injection in ischemic CVA in
Rafsanjan, Iran
3. Estimating the frequency of smoking and opium consumption in CVA patients
in Rafsanjan and their relationship with the location, severity and extent of the
stroke
4. Survey on local demographic and epidemiologic characteristics of patients with
CVA in Rafsanjan, Iran
5. Determining the relationship between the extent and severity of stroke with
HbA1C levels (and in other projects, with lipid profile, Mean Platelet Volume,
etc.)
6. Evaluating the secondary complications and outcome measures in stroke
patients in our university hospital
7. Preconditioning, Remote conditioning, Local hypothermia, and Brain cooling
in animal models of stroke (and also in one human study on patients suffering
from Traumatic Brain Injury)
8. Sonothrombolysis associated with IV tPA administration in animal stroke
models (embolic stroke model with MCA occlusion)
9. Etiologies and clinical characteristics of cerebral venous thrombosis patients
10. Assensment of the efficacy of rehabilitation exercises in water for improving
the motor ability of stroke patients in Rafsanjan
11. Recent basic sciences researches in animal models of stroke (such as the role of
neuroprotection, TRPV1 agonists, etc.)
3. Some of the articles, books, innovation:
Innovation: Patent for optimization of the technique of extracting
“Achilla Millefollium” concentrate for the add-on treatment of Multiple
Sclerosis (International Classification: C07K1/14;A61K36/28).
Book: A chapter named “The role of natural products in the prevention
and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis” in the book “Nutrition and Lifestyle
in Neurological Autoimmune Disorders” by Elsevier.
Articles:
1- Ghandehari K, Pourzahed A, Taheri M, Abbasi M, Gorjestani S,
Moghadam-Ahmadi A, Nahayati A. Estimation of Iranian stroke
patients eligible for intravenous thrombolysis with tPA. International
Journal of Stroke 2009 Aug; 4(4): 236.
2- Kavian Ghandehari, Mohsen Foroughipour, Ali Pourzahed, Marzieh
Taheri, Maryam Abbasi, Shirin Gorjestani, Amir Moghaddam Ahmadi,
Mohammad Ali Nahayati. Thrombolysis in Stroke Patients; Problems
and Limitations. IJMS Vol 35, No 2, June 2010.
3- Moghadam-Ahmadi A, Sharifi-Razavi A, Omrani L, Alamdar H.
Introduction to the neurophysiology of hypnosis. Iran J Psychiatry
Behav Sci 2012 spring and summer; (suppl.) 6(1): 110.
4- Sasannejad P, Azarpazhooh MR, Rahimi H, Moghadam-Ahmadi A,
Ardakani AM, Saber HR. Guillain-Barré-like Syndrome, as a
Rare Presentation of Adult T-cell Leukemia-Lymphoma
(ATLL): A Case Report. Iran Red Crescent Med J.2012;14(8):497-
8.
5- Shoeibi A, Etemadi MM, Moghaddam Ahmadi A, Amini M,
Boostani R. “HTLV-I Infection” Twenty-year research in
neurology department of Mashhad University of Medical
Sciences. Iran J Basic Med Sci: 2013; 16:202-7.
6- Sharifi-Razavi A, Kazemian M, Moghaddam Ahmadi A, Sadati
Kiadehi SM. Intraventricular hemorrhage in hemorrhagic
transformation brain infarction. European Journal of Neurology
19 (suppl. 1), 458-807.
7- Naeimehossadat Hosseini1, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi2, Mohammad Ali
Aboozar Tajiksafa5. Prolonged
Vertigo Associated with Nystagmus: an Organic or a Psychiatric
Disorder? Discussing a Case Report. GMJ. 2013;2(2):83-86.
8- Mohsen Forughipur1, Athena Sharifi-Razavi2, Mehrnoosh Ghasemi –
Jirdehi3, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi4, Ahmad Pourrashidi5, Zahra
Tafakhori6, Sahar Fadaee2, Elham Salehian Nik7. Brain MRI Findings
in Patients with Optic Neuritis. J Mazand Univ Med Sci 2013;
23(103): 20-27 (Persian).
9- Mohsen Foroughipoor1, Amir Moghaddam Ahmadi2, Sahar Fadaei3,
Khosro Ravankhah Moghaddam4, Athena Sharifi Razavi3. Causes of
Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and its Clinical Manifestation in
Patients Admitted in Emergency Unit and Neurology Ward of
Ghaem Hospital. J Mazand Univ Med Sci 2013; 23(98): 86-90
(Persian).
10- Amir Moghaddam Ahmadi1, Masoud Sabouri Ghannad2, Fateme
Arab Bani Asad3, Reza Bidaki3*. SUBDURAL EMPYEMA IN A 12-
YEAR-OLD BOY: A RARE CASE REPORT. Int j clin surg adv
2014; 2(4):34-39.
11- Ravanbakhsh M, Salehi Z, Arab Bani-Asadi F, Moghadam
Ahmadi A, Sadr Mohammadi R, Bidaki R. Study of Headache
Prevalence and Measuring of Related Disabilities on Employees of
Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences in 2012. Journal of Jiroft
University of Medical Sciences 2014; 1(1): 131-138.
12- Athena Sharifi Razavi1,*, Narges Karimi1, Nasim Tabrizi1, Amir
Moghaddam Ahmadi2, Sahar Fadaei3, Mehdi Moshfegh3. Human T-
Lymphotropic Virus Type 1–Associated Myelopathy, or Tropical
Spastic Paraparesis(HAM/TSP). J Clin Exc 2014; 2(2): 104-115
(Persian).
13- Mohammad Allahtavakoli 1, Mohammadamin Hosseini Kahnouei
1*, Hossein Rezazadeh 1, Ali Roohbakhsh 2, Mohammad Hossein
Mahmoodi 1, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi 3, Mohammadreza Zarisfi 1.
Delayed combination therapy of local brain hypothermia and
decompressive craniectomy on acute stroke outcome in rat. Iran J
Basic Med Sci 2014; 17:476-482.
14- Kavian Ghandehari1, Athena Sharifi Razavi2*, Amir Moghaddam
Ahmadi3, Mahsa Espandar4, Mahmoud Taheri Heravi5, Saeed
Ebrahimzadeh6. Investigation of the diagnostic value of aphasia and
sensory-motor sings for topographic detection of lesions in the
patients with cerebrovascular syndrome. Sadra Med Sci J 2014; 2(2):
143-150.
15- Sasannejad Payam • Moghadam-Ahmadi Amir (Corresponding
author) • Shahsavari Sasan • Pourrashidi-Boshrabadi Ahmad • Tafakhori
Zahra • Sharifi-Razavi Athena. Treatment of patients with suspected
brain tuberculoma before or without bacteriologic confirmation in
endemic places: report of two cases. Acta Neurol Belg (2015)
115:181–185. DOI 10.1007/s13760-014-0330-y.
16- Alireza Vakilian, Farhad Iranmanesh, Mohamad Ali SHafa, Amir
Moghadam-Ahmadi, Fariba Maleki-Rad. Educational Needs
Assessment for General Practitioners in the Field of Neurological
Diseases in the Regulatory Zone of Rafsanjan University of Medical
Sciences, Iran. Strides in Development of Medical education. J of Med
Educational Development center. 2015; 12 (3): 525-536.
17- * Mojtaba Akramian Fard, Amir Moghadam Ahmadi, Fatemeh
Ayoobi, Hassan Nakisa, Zahra Hadadian, Mohammad Shabani,
Mohammad Alahtavakoli, Ali Shamsizadeh. Effects of Achillea
millefolium aqueous extract in a Parkinsons diaease model induced
by intra-cerebralventricular injection of 6-hydroxydopamine in
male rats. Quarterly Journal of Sabzevar University of Medical
Sciences, Volume 22, Number 1, March & April 2015.
18- Fereshteh Solhdoost,1 Rezvan Sadr Mohammadi,2 Amir
Moghadam Ahmadi,3 Reza Bidaki,4,* Seyed Ali Mostafavi,5 Mojde
Bahmanyar,6 Sahar Rezaei Nejad,6 and Mohamad Hossein Ahmadie7.
Frequency of Anxiety in Patients With Drug Poisoning in Rafsanjan
City, Iran, in 2013. Int J High Risk Behav Addict. 2015 December;
4(4): e19646.
19- Nadjme Anbiaee 1; Zahra Tafakhori 2,*; Amir Moghadam-
Ahmadi 3; Golsa Akbarian 4. Osteosclerosis in a Thirty-Four-Year-
Old Woman With Primary Hyperparathyroidism. Iran J Radiol.
2015 April; 12(2): e8260. DOI: 10.5812/iranjradiol.8260.
20- Moghadam Ahmadi A, Ranjbar E, Irannezhad M. A case Report
of Human T-cell lymphotropic Virus Type 1(HTLV1) Infected Virus
with Similar Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms in a Non-endemic Area.
Armaghane-danesh 2016; 21 (5): 513-520.
21- Mostafa Almasi-Doghaee1, Reza Boostani2, Morteza Saeedi2,
Saeed Ebrahimzadeh3, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi4, Mohammad Javad
Saeedi-Borujeni5. Carpal compression, Phalen’s and Tinel’s test:
which one is more suitable for carpal tunnel syndrome? Iran J Neurol
2016; 15(3). (Letter to editor).
22- Alireza Vakilian 1, Reza Derakhshan Ravari 2 *, Amir Moghadam
Ahmadi 3. Sydenham Chorea in a Girl with Dextrocardia and Situs
Inversus. Int Cardiovasc Res J.2017;11(2):77-80.icrj.11188.
23- Mozafari N, Moghadam-Ahmadi A, Shamsizadeh A, Fatemi I,
Allahtavakoli M, Kaeidi A. The effect of ampakine Farampator
(CX691) on working memory in a rat model of Alzheimer's disease
induced by Amyloid beta 1-42. Iran J Physiol Pharmacol 2 (2016) 113-
120.
24- Vakilian A, Moghadam-Ahmadi A, Farahmand H.
Neurofibromatosis type 1, presenting as a rare widespread
neurofibromas with cord compression. Iran J Neurol 2016; 15(1): 57-
9.
25- Mohsen Forughipur1, Ahmad Saheb-Alam2, Ahmad Pourrashidi-
Boshrabadi3, Zahra Tafakhori4, Athena Sharifi-Razavi5, Amir
Moghadam-Ahmadi6* (corresponding author). Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) findings in patients with brain small vessel disease.
Internal medicine and medical investigation (ISSN: 2474-7750).
December 2016, Volume:1, Issue:2, Pages: 38-46.
26- Amir Moghadam Ahmadi 1 , Mina Jafari 2 , Laaya Sabzevari 3 ,
Atena FallahTafti 4 *, Reza Bidaki 5. Evaluation of the Effect of
Hypnotherapy on the Headache. Sleep Hypn 2017;
http://dx.doi.org/10.5350/Sleep.Hypn.2017.19.0142. Sleep and
Hypnosis. A Journal of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychopathology.
Sleep and Hypnosis. 2017; (online) 20 (2): 114-119.
27- Ali Reza Vakilian 1, Amir Moghadam Ahmadi 2, Habib
Farahmand 3. An Occipital Headache as the First Presentation of
Multiple Third, Fourth, and Lateral Ventricular Cavernous
Malformations: A Case Report and Review of Literature. GMJ.2017;6(1):61-65.
28- Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi1, Alireza Vakilian2, Habib
Farahmand3, Athena Sharifi-Razavi4, Farzad Tajik5, Mohsen
Nadjmadini6*. Epidemiological, Clinical and Radiological
Characteristics of Patients with Head Trauma. Internal Medicine and
Medical Investigation. 2017; 2 (1).
29- Ayoobi F, Shamsizadeh A, Fatemi I, Vakilian AR, Allahtavakoli
M, Hassanshahi GhH, Moghadam-Ahmadi A (corresponding author).
Bio-effectiveness of the main flavonoids of Achillea millefolium in
the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders- a review. Iran J
Basic Med Sci 2017; 20:604-612. doi: 10.22038/IJBMS.2017.8827.
30- Hakimizadeh E, Shamsizadeh A, Roohbakhsh A, Kazemi
Arababadi M, Hajizadeh MR, Shariati M, Fatemi I, Moghadam-ahmadi
A, Bazmandegan GhR, Rezazadeh H, Allahtavakoli M. TRPV1
receptor-mediated expression of Toll-like receptors 2 and 4
following permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Iran J
Basic Med Sci 2017; 20:863-869. doi: 10.22038/IJBMS.2017.9107.
31- Ali Peimani1, Maryam Irannezhad2, Amir Moghadam Ahmadi3*
(corresponding author). Comparing the effect of hypnosis and local
anesthesia injection on induction of local anesthesia, anxiety,
hemorrhage and pain control during tooth extraction. Journal of
Research in Medical and Dental Science. 2017; 5 (4): 44-49
32- Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi1, Reza Bidaki2, Tahereh Shahriari
Sarhadi3, Alireza Vakilian4, Athena Sharifi Razavi5. Prevalence of
Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
Rafsanjan, Iran 2014. J Mazandaran Univ Med Sci 2017; 27 (153): 64
- 73 (Persian).
33- Amir Moghaddamahmadi, Pouria Yazdian-Anari, Siamak
Kazemisufi, Alireza Vakilian, Aliasghar Ranjbartotoei, Fatemeh Ayoobi
Evaluation of Demographic, Clinical and Beyond Clinical
Characteristics in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Rafsanjan
City, Iran. Internal Medicine and Medical Investigation J. 2017; 2(2):
63-70.
34- Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi, Azam Mobini, Fariba Kabiri, Reza
Bidaki, Bonnie Bozorg. Relationship Between Anxiety and
Depression with Disability Over Multiple Sclerosis Patients in
Rafsanjan, Iran. Archives of Neuroscience. 2018; 5 (2).
35- Reza Bidaki, Niloofar Majidi, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi, Hamid
Bakhshi, Rezvan Sadr Mohammadi, Seyed-Ali Mostafavi, Mohammad
Kazemi Arababadi, Maryam Hadavi, Afshin Mirzaei. Vitiligo and
social acceptance. Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology.
2018; 11: 383.
36- Mohammad-Reza Rahmani, Ali Shamsizadeh, Amir Moghadam-
Ahmadi, Ayat Kaeidi, Mohammad Allahtavakoli. Monoacylglycerol
lipase inhibitor, JZL-184, confers neuroprotection in the mice
middle cerebral artery occlusion model of stroke. Life sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lfs.2018.02.036. 2018; 198: 143-148.
37- Nazanin Mozafari, Ali Shamsizadeh, Iman Fatemi, Mohammad
Allahtavakoli, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi, Elham Kaviani, Ayat Kaeidi.
CX691 as an AMPA receptor positive modulator, improves the
learning and memory in a rat model of Alzheimer’s disease. DOI:
10.22038/ijbms.2018.28544.6934. 2018; 21 (7): 724-730.
38- Mohammad-Reza Rahmani, Ali Shamsizadeh, Amir Moghadam-
Ahmadi, Gholamreza Bazmandegan, Mohammad Allahtavakoli.
JZL184, as a monoacylglycerol lipase inhibitor, down-regulates
inflammation in a cannabinoid pathway dependent manner. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 2018; 103: 1720-1726.
39- Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi, Hossein Khorramdelazad,
Gholamhossein Hassanshahi, Sasan Shahsavari, Ali Moadab, Alireza
Vakilian. Eotaxins and C–C chemokine receptor type 3 in
Parkinson’s disease. Acta Neurol Belg (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-018-01061-8.
40- Vahid Bagheri, Hossein Khorramdelazad, Gholamhossein
Hassanshahi, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi, Alireza Vakilian. CXCL12
and CXCR4 in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with Parkinson’s
Disease. Neuroimmunomodulation. 2018; 25 (4): 201-205.
41- Vakilian, A., Razavi-Nasab, S.M., Ravari, A., Mirzayee T.,
Moghadam-Ahmadi A., Asadikaram, G., Arababadi, M.K. Vitamin B12
in Association with Antipsychotic Drugs Can Modulate the
Expression of Pro-/Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Alzheimer
Disease Patients. NeuroImmunoModulation, 2018; 24(6), 310-319.
42- Alireza Vakilian, Gholamreza Bazmandegan, Marjan Saeedi
Nezhad, Zahra Asadollahi, Amir Moghadam Ahmadi (corresponding
author). Association of HbA1c Levels with Extent and Functional
Status of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke. Journal of Kerman
University of Medical Sciences, 2018; 25 (4): 307-317.
43- Fatemeh Ayoobi, Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi, Houshang Amiri,
Alireza Vakilian, Moslem Heidari, Habib Farahmand, Mahmood Sheikh
Fathollahi, Iman Fatemi, Seyed Ali Shafiei, Mohammad Alahtavakoli,
Ali Shamsizadeh. Achillea millefolium is beneficial as an add-on
therapy in patients with multiple sclerosis: a randomized placebo-
controlled clinical trial. Phytomedicine. 2019; 52: 89-97.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2018.06.017.