English CV

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, a.moghadamahmadi@gmail.comEmail:

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.