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CURRICULUM VITAE NAME AMIR H SURNAME MOHAGHEGHI FARD Address Medical School Paradise of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences Persian Gulf Highway; Zahedan/IRAN Tel ++98 541 244 0486 & ++98 541 243 0058-9 Fax ++98 541 241 5081 E-mail AHMOHAGH@YAHOO.COM Date of birth 03-12-1958 Place of birth Tehran Nationality Iranian Marital status married Occupation Associate professor in clinical virology, member of society

for general microbiology (SGM) U.K. Formerly head of paramedical school in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences (ZUMS) from 1997 upto 2005.

EDUCATIONS: Apr 1993-Dec 96 Ph.D. in medical virology. Virology unit, department of

pathological sciences, medical school, the university of Manchester, England.

Oct 1991-Mar 93 M.Sc. in molecular microbiology (taught course with dissertation). Microbiology unit, department of pathological sciences, medical school, the university of Manchester, England.

Oct 1983-Mar 85 M.Sc. in food and agriculture microbiology. Department of microbiology, the university of Karachi, Pakistan.

Oct 1979-Sep 83 B.Sc(Hon) in microbiology. Department of microbiology, the university of Karachi, Pakistan.

Sep 1974-Jun 77 Diploma in pre-medicine, Shahpoor Tajrish high school,

Shemiran, Tehran with the average of 17.13 out of 20. TOPICS OF THE THESES: Ph.D. (1996) Positivity for and avidity of human herpesviruses IgG

antibody determined by ELISA. M.Sc (1993) DNA extraction from CSF prior to diagnosis of herpes

simplex virus encephalitis (HSE) by the PCR. M.Sc (1985) Role of plasmids in drug resistance in bacteria in general and

N.gonnorhoea in particular. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAININGS: Mar 1974-Mar 77 Diploma in English from National Institute of English

Language in Tehran. Jan 1991-Jun 91 Academic preparation (498 hours) The English Language

Institute. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Since all my studies were carried out with absolute English instruction, I would like to stress that in terms of

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language eligiblity, I do have fluency in writing, reading, listening and speaking of English.

March 1991 I sat for TOEFL for the first time, the score was 550. EXPERIENCES: Mar 1985 –Jan 91 Joined Zahedan university of Medical sciences as lecturer in

microbiology and during this period have taught microbiology and virology to students of medicine, dentistry, nursing, laboratory sciences and so on. Other activities included: 1) Supervision of students for their theses. 2) Active participation in equipping microbiology labs

within the university. 3) Different research projects undertaken with other

colleagues. Dec 1996-till now after return from England rejoined the ZUMS as assistant

professor and actively involved in academic activities including: 1) Teaching clinical virology to different student groups as

mentioned above. 2) Teaching Specialized English for students of different

schools as: Medical, Dentistry, Public Health and paramedics.

3) Acting as internal examiner for medical students as interns and residents.

4) Acting as scientific board and executive committee of different congress and seminars as: 16th national congress on TB (Zahedan), national congress on kidney dysfunction and nursing care in Zahedan. Scientific board of 2nd virology congress in Tehran 13 to 15th Feb 2004.

5) Acting as scientific board of 2nd Iranian congress on virology in Tehran, Iran 2004.

6) Acting as scientific board of 3rd Iranian congress on virology in Tehran, Iran 21-23 Jan 2006.

7) Different research projects currently involved along with other colleagues including:

a) Screening of donated blood to Zahedan blood transfusion centre in search of Cytomegalovirus (CMV).

PRESENTATIONS: 1) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Klapper PE (1993). Oral presentation “Diagnosis of HSE by PCR Manchester (England) the first seminar of Iranian students in UK. 2) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Morris DJ (1994). Oral presentation “Detection and avidity of IgG in sera from primary and remote infections of HSV by in house ELISA”Bath (England)Annual meeting of SGM.

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3) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Morris DJ (1995). Poster presentation “Designation and standardization of an in house ELISA for detection and avidity assay of HCMV IgG in different groups of patients”Wűstborg (Germany) the European congress on virology. 4) Mohagheghi Fard AH,(1997). Oral presentation “Comparison of different techniques of DNA purification from CSF in patients suffering from HSE”. Tehran (8th congress on infectious diseases and tropical medicine). 5) Moradi A, Mokhtari Azad T, and Mohagheghi Fard AH (2001). Poster presentation “Esophageal cancer and nutrition in Turkmen-Sahara of Iran”. France, Lyon (European conference on nutrition and cancer). 6) Mohagheghi Fard AH, Morris DJ and Klapper PE (2002). Oral presentation “Designation and standardization of an in-house ELISA for detection of HHV-6 IgG”. (Tehran 1st congress on virology). 7) Moradi A, Salehi M, Rakhshani F, Sanei ME, Mohagheghi Fard AH, et al., (2002). Oral presentation “Seroepidemiology of B19 virus within women in pregnancy age in the town of SARAVAN (Iran)”. Tehran (1st congress on virology). 8) Moradi A, Salehi M, Rakhshani F, Sanei ME, Mohagheghi Fard AH, et al., (2002). Oral presentation “Seroepidemiology of measles virus within women in pregnancy age in the town of SARAVAN (Iran)”. Tehran (1st congress on virology). 9) Moradi A, Mokhtari Azad T, and Mohagheghi Fard AH (2002). Poster presentation “Detection of HPV DNA in Ameloblastoma by PCR in Iran”. Tehran (1st congress on virology). 10) Naserpour T, Salehi M, Mohagheghi Fard AH and Johari P (2002). Oral presentation “Rapid diagnosis of TB in patients refering to Zahedan Bouali hospital by spigolotyping”. Zahedan (16th national congress on TB). 11) Moradi A, Mohagheghi Fard AH, Shahraki Sh, Sanei Moghaddam E (2003). Oral presetation “Seroepidemiology of antisera against Rubella, measles, HBV, HCV and B19 viruses in females between 15-45 years in the city of SARAVAN,(Iran)”. Tehran (11th Iranian congress on infectious diseases and tropical medicine). 12) Salehi Shaban M, Naserpour T, Mohagheghi Fard AH, and Ardebili M (2003). Poster presentation “Validity for ESR for diagnosis of adult pulmonary tuberculosis”. Turkey (17th Asian Pacific Congress on Diseases of the Chest). 13) Mohagheghi Fard AH, Moradi A and Naserpour T (2004). Oral presentation “Designation of an in-house ELISA for detection of VZV IgG and determination of antibody avidity by use of Diethylamine (DEA)”. Tehran (2nd Iranian congress on virology). 14) Mohagheghi Fard AH, Naserpour T and Hashemi M (2006). Oral presentation “Evaluation of an In-house HCMV IgG ELISA and its comparison with commercial kits”. Tehran (3rd Iranian congress on virology).

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PUBLICATIONS: 1) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Bokaeian M (1999). Human herpes virus type 6

(HHV-6). Tabib-e-Shargh : vol1, no1, 41-52. Review article (85 references). 2) Translation of “Notes on medical virology” by Morag C Timbury into Farsi for

Iranian students (2002). 3) Moradi A, Yaghob-Nezhad Z, Mohagheghi Fard AH, et al., (2003).

Seroepidemiology of HTLV-1 antibody in the thalassemic patients in Zaboul and Zahedan during 2001. J of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services vol 11, no 43, 43-47.

4) Moradi A, Salehi M, Mohagheghi Fard AH, et al., (2003). Seroepidemiology of

measles within women in pregnancy age in Saravan (a town in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran). Tabib-e-shargh vol 4 no:3, 129-134.

5) Hashemi M, Alavian SM, Ghavami S, de Serres FJ, Salehi M, Doroudi T, Mohagheghi

Fard AH, Mehrabifar H, Milani B (2005). High prevalence of Alpha 1 antitrypsin phenotypes in viral hepatitis B infected patients in Iran. Hepatol res 33; 292-297.

6) Borji A, Shahraki Zahedani Sh, Naserpour Farivar T, Fazaeli A, Mohagheghi Fard

AH and Bokaeian M (2005). Prevalence of Beta haemolytic Group A streptococci among elementary school children in Zahedan during 2002. J of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services vol 13, no 51, 49-54.

7) Naserpour Farivar T, Naderi M, Mohagheghi Fard AH, Sharifi Moud B and

Taheri M (2006). An investigation on frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis within culture negative samples amongst patients suffering from UTI in city of Zahedan/Iran. J of Med Sci 6(2); 245-8.

8) Naserpour Farivar T, Mohagheghi Fard AH, Naderi M, Oweisi Oskouie H and

Alijani E (2006). Drug resistance of isolated strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients referring to Zahedan Bou-Ali hospital, IRAN. J of Med Sci 6(2); 275-8.

9) Naserpour Farivar T, Mohagheghi Fard AH, Shahraki Zahedani Sh, Naderi M and

Sharifi Moud B (2006). Anti Tuberculosis effect of Ocimum sanctum extracts in vivo and macrophage culture. J of Med Sci 6(3); 391-4.

10) Bokaeian M and Mohagheghi Fard AH (2006). Identification of Enteropathogenic

Campylobacters in poultries' faeces by PCR and its comparison with culture in Zahedan (Iran). J of Med Sc 6(6): 984-88.

11) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Klapper PE (2006). A comparison between

cerebrospinal fluid pretreatment protocols prior to diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) by PCR. Pak J of Biol Sc 9(10): 1884-90.

12) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Vallely PJ (2006). Development of an In-house ELISA

for detection of HCMV IgG and finding of antibody avidity by application of diethylamine. Res J of Microbiol 1(6): 467-69.

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13) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Vallely PJ (2006). Designation of an In-house ELISA

for detection of VZV IgG and dtermination of antibody avidity by use of diethylamine. Pak J of Biol Sc 10 (19): 3306-3313.

14) Bokaeian M, Mohagheghi Fard AH and Gholizadeh R (2006). An investigation

on contamination of poultries by Salmonella species in Zahedan (south-east Iran) during 2004. Res J of Microbiol 1(5): 463-466.

15) Mohagheghi Fard AH and Vallely PJ (2007). Determination of Frequency of

HHV-6 IgG by an In-house ELISA and Detection of Antibody Avidity by Application of Diethylamine. J of Med Sci 7 (6)15th August: 952-960.

16) Moradi A. Mohagheghi Fard AH, Shahraki Sh, Borji A, Marjani A, Sanei-

Moghadam E, Kalavi Kh B. and Zangi-Abadi M (2007). Seroepidemiology of rubella, measles, HBV, HCV and B19 virus in child bearing ages (Saravan city of Sistan and Baluchistan province) . Res J of Microbiol 2(3): 289-293.

17) Mohagheghi Fard AH, Bokaeian M and Qureishi ME (2008). Frequency of E.coli

O157:H7 in diarrhoeic children in Zahedan/Iran. Eastern Meditranean Health Jornal (EMHJ) 14 (5): 1022-1027.

18) Bokaeian M, Qureshi ME, Dabiri S and Mohagheghi Fard AH (2011). An

investigation on antibiotic resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from gonorrheal patients in Zahedan, Iran during 2007 to 2010. African Journal of Microbiology (under press)