Reza Malekzadeh
Reza Malekzadeh | |
|---|---|
 Malekzadeh in 2006 | |
| Minister of Health and Medical Education | |
| In office 5 March 1991[1] – 16 August 1993[2] Acting: 14 January – 5 March 1991[3] | |
| President | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Preceded by | Iradj Fazel |
| Succeeded by | Alireza Marandi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 January 1952 Baladeh, Kazerun County, Fars province, Iran |
| Political party | Executives of Construction Party |
| Alma mater | Shiraz University of Medical Sciences |
Reza Malekzadeh (Persian: رضا ملکزاده; born 1952 in Kazerun, Fars province, Iran) is an Iranian medical scientist and gastroenterologist.
Career
[edit]Malekzadeh studied medicine at Shiraz University. He continued his studies to become specialized in 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 Minister of Health of Iran's government from 1991 to 1993. From 2000 to 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
[edit]Besides being a renowned gastroenterologist, Professor Malekzadeh has been instrumental in designing and executing an efficient and practical way of diagnosing cancerous and benign esophageal lesions in Iran, applicable to urban and rural areas. He was elected as a member of 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
[edit]During the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and general Hossein Salami had suggested that the coronavirus pandemic in the country was due to a biological attack. On 13 March, Reza Malekzadeh rejected this theory.[4]
Family life
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "All ministers of the 30 years" (in Persian). Khabar Online. 15 August 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ "Coronavirus: Iran's deputy health minister rejects biological warfare theory". Al Arabiya English. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
External links
[edit]- Digestive Disease Research Center (DDRC)
- Archives of Iranian Medicine
- Reza Malekzadeh's publications in pubmed
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- 20th-century Iranian inventors
- Iranian gastroenterologists
- Government ministers of Iran
- Shiraz University alumni
- Academic staff of Shiraz University
- Academic staff of the University of Tehran
- 1952 births
- Living people
- People from Kazerun
- Executives of Construction Party politicians
- Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame recipients in Medicine
- Shiraz University of Medical Sciences alumni
- 20th-century Iranian politicians