Three Scientific Agreements with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine upon the Chancellor’s Visit to the University

Three Scientific Agreements with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine upon the Chancellor’s Visit to the University
Date: 5/28/2011

TUMSPR News: Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine have inked three agreements in the field of medical sciences upon the visit by TUMS Chancellor to the Chinese university in late April 2011.

Based on the report by Iran’s International News Network TV Channel, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM) have signed three agreements for scientific collaborations in the field of medicine upon the visit by TUMS Chancellor, Dr. Bagher Larijani, to the Chinese university in late April 2011.

Regarding the ever-increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Iran and in China that affects a population of about 70 million people there, Dr. Bagher Larijani said the establishment of a center to mutually do research on the disease, its [underlying] mechanisms, its treatment approaches and medications had been a high priority.

In a separate interview, Dr. Gao Si Hua, the Chancellor for Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, had expressed his pleasure and had said the agreement would help develop the health sector, increase the quality of health services and bring about health for the peoples of China and Iran.

Dr. Si Hua, accompanied by a number of authorities from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine had met TUMS Chancellor and visited its Faculty of Traditional Medicine in late January 2011.

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Professor Michael S. Maddux, the Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Visits TUMS Children's Medical Center

Professor Michael S. Maddux, the Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Visits TUMS Children's Medical Center
Date: 5/27/2011

TUMSPR News: Professor Michael S. Maddux, the executive director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy visited the Children's Medical Center affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on May 22, 2011.

According to the news by the Public Relations of Children's Medical Center affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), the executive director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Professor Michael S. Maddux, visited the Center on May 22, 2011.

He was briefed about the treatment schedule of some patients by Dr. Kadivar and Dr. Faghihi while he was visiting the laboratory, NICU, CICU, EICU and the open heart surgery wards of the hospital. Professor Maddux admired the quality of care given at the Center, especially at the neonatal intensive care unit, and welcomed the participation of clinical pharmacists specializing there. [H]

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Observing the World No Tobacco Day 2011 to Help Curb the 2nd Cause of Death

Observing the World No Tobacco Day 2011 to Help Curb the 2nd Cause of Death
Date: 5/25/2011

TUMSPR News: The second cause of death after hypertension is tobacco smoking and as the World Health Organization warns it kills one in every 10 adults. The day is observed on May 31, 2011.

World No Tobacco Day is observed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and on May 31, 2011 to highlight the health risks associated with the disease. As the Organization warns, the death toll related to this old running habit of human societies is one in every ten adults and it is only second to hypertension. Tobacco use has been said to be the number one preventable epidemic.

Dating back to 1987, the year of its establishment by the World Health Assembly, this day is observed all over the world as it is done in Iran. The event tries to take the message to communities and help control its use.

Tobacco is believed to kill about 6000,000 people annually or one in every six seconds and the toll will increase to > 8000,000 by 2030. More than 80% of the world’s one billion smokers live in low and middle-income countries although tobacco consumption is decreasing in some high-income and upper middle-income countries (1)

Causing 100 million deaths in the 20th century, tobacco is estimated to kill about ten times this figure, one billion, at the end of 21st century.

In 2004, 40% of children, 33% of male non-smokers and 35% of female non-smokers were exposed to second-hand smoke (2). The second-hand smoking was responsible for 1.0% of the mortality and 0.7% of the burden of disease in 2004 (3). The figure for deaths related to second-hand smoking is 600,000 per year (4).

Surveys to assess tobacco smoking epidemics and its related death in different societies will undoubtedly play a key role in adopting policies to curb its use but unfortunately low and middle-income countries do not even have minimal information about its use and the burden it is leaving on the health system.

Iran has been helping in the Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)

Iran data on Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) in 2007 can be viewed at this address. Iranian Anti Tobacco Association (IATA) has been active in recent years in launching campaigns against tobacco smoking. Iran has been also part of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) and has been prohibiting shopkeepers to sell cigarettes to the youth. The GYTS is a school-based survey that collects data from 13-15 year-old school students.

References
1- http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/index.html
2- http://www.who.int/gho/phe/secondhand_smoke/exposure/en/index.html
3- http://gamapserver.who.int/gho/interactive_charts/phe/shs_mbd/GHO_phe_shs_mbd.html
4- http://www.who.int/gho/phe/secondhand_smoke/burden/en/index.html

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Professor Hania Szajewska Visits TUMS Children's Medical Center

Professor Hania Szajewska Visits TUMS Children's Medical Center
Date: 5/19/2011

TUMSPR News: Professor Hania Szajewska, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Warsaw, visited TUMS Children's Medical Center on April 16, 2011.

According to the news by the Public Relations of Children's Medical Center affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Professor Hania Szajewska, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, visited the Center on April 16, 2011.

Professor Hania Szajewska who is a member of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Council and the secretary of the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition gave a lecture on probiotics and prebiotics , the effects of early dietary intervention to reduce allergy ,and diarrheal diseases for an audience composed of medical doctors and nurses. After the lecture she visited some wards and laboratory of the Hospital where she admired the amount of work done there to equip the Center and to serve the patients. [H]

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64th World Health Assembly Elects its President, Five Vice-presidents including one of TUMS Faculty Members

64th World Health Assembly Elects its President, Five Vice-presidents including one of TUMS Faculty Members
Date: 5/18/2011

TUMSPR News: At the sixty-fourth World Health Assembly held in Switzerland on May 16 and 17, 2011, the assembly selected its president and five vice-presidents, including Dr. Mohammad Hossein Niknam, one of TUMS faculty members and the director of the International Relations Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

At the sixty-fourth World Health Assembly held in Switzerland on May 16 and 17, 2011, the Assembly selected its president and five vice-presidents, including Dr. Mohammad Hossein Niknam, one of TUMS faculty members and the director of the International Relations Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

The 64th World Health Assembly which had started by the opening remarks pointing to its achievements in recent years, and the need to remain alert and committed to reaching the targets for healthier communities worldwide, continued by appointing the Assembly's president, Dr. Christos Patsalides, Director of the Ministry of Health for Cyprus, as well as five vice presidents from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Trinidad and Tobago, representing their respective regions.

WHO was established in 1943 with the goal to promote health and ease the burden of disease all over the world. The Organization sets its goals and priorities based on the suggestions from the 193 Member States it is designed to serve. Each year, senior health officials from all these Member States go to Geneva to participate in the World Health Assembly. It is at the Health Assembly that WHO's work is reviewed, new goals are set, and new tasks assigned.

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TUMS Gains Better Position at Essential Science Indicator in May 2011

TUMS Gains Better Position at Essential Science Indicator in May 2011
Date: 5/17/2011

TUMSPR News: At the latest release by the Essential Science Indicator in May 2011, TUMS has leaped 129 places up in just two months to repeat its steady progress in the database.

Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has achieved the 1341st place among peer institutes at the latest release by the Essential Science Indicator (ESI) in May 2011.

TUMS has leaped 129 places up in just two months to repeat its steady progress in the database. Moving 89 position higher in clinical medicine, TUMS has gained the 973rd position which grants the university a position below 1000 for the first time.

In Pharmacology and toxicology, TUMS has moved 34 ranks up to gain the 329th position. In Social Sciences, TUMS has made a 65-step progress to be the 677th contender.

The mean citation per paper for the institute is 4.28 and the highest citations have been to a paper published in BMJ and co-authored by one of TUMS faculty members.

This ranking is based on the analysis of data provided by ISI Web of Knowledge accumulated during January 2001 to February 2011. The data is updated on 2-month basis.

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Dr. John Hamilton Meets with TUMS Chancellor for Curriculum Revision

Dr. John Hamilton Meets with TUMS Chancellor for Curriculum Revision
Date: 5/16/2011

TUMSPR News: Dr. John Hamilton, the former Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia met Dr. Bagher Larijani to talk about the ongoing curriculum revision at TUMS School of Medicine on May 11, 2011.

Professor John Hamilton, the former Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia, met with Dr. Bagher Larijani, TUMS Chancellor, to brief the attendees, including the director of the International Relations Office, Dr. Ghazi-khansari, the manager of the Center for Research and Development of Education, Dr. Djalili, on the progress the university was making in revising its curriculum for medical education.

Dr. Hamilton’s 2-day tentative agenda before meeting with the chancellor had included discussing the proposed plans for basic sciences, clerkship and internship phases, fundamentals of clinical medicine, evaluation of the new program and relevant vertical integrated themes.

Appreciating the volume of undertaken activities in the School of Medicine, Dr. Hamilton put the emphasis on the participation of faculty members in the process of curriculum revision and correction of student evaluation mechanisms and persuasion of faculties and students for evidence-based medicine approaches and professional commitment in the scientific society.

Thanking Dr. Hamilton for his supervision, Dr. Larijani said the present time situation was unique in its kind as the curriculum revision was supported both by the authorities at the university and from authorities responsible for the state’s medical education. He said the revised program would be implemented at the 2011-2012 academic year.

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TUMS Pays Tribute to 12 of its Best Academics for the Year 2011

TUMS Pays Tribute to 12 of its Best Academics for the Year 2011
Date: 5/11/2011

TUMSPR News: TUMS introduced 12 best academics for the year 2011 in a meeting hold at Avicenna Conference Hall on May 9, 2011.

The professors who were commemorated were Dr. Mohammad-hassan Lashgari, ophthalmologist, Dr. Vali-allah Mehrabi, pediatric surgeon, Dr. Seyed Habt al-Din Borghaie, ENT surgeon, Dr. Habib Ansarin, dermatologist, Dr. Mohammad Bagher Islami, immunologist, D. Bagher Larijani, endocrinologist, Dr. Manouchehr Gharouni, cardiologist, Dr. Mahboub Lessan-Pezeshki, nephrologist, Dr. Mir-Abbas Abd-al-Vahabi, surgeon and anatomist, Dr. Abbas Monzavi, implantologist, Dr. Parvin Pasalar, biochemist, and Dr. Mohsen Amini, chemical pharmacist.

At the opening speech, Dr. Bagher Larijani, the chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) thanked the faculties and students for their 40% share of research among the state’s medical sciences universities and said they are the main source of academic activity in the University.

Dr. Larijani said TUMS with 7000 hospital beds was the largest health service render in the country and the University had two strategic goals: one promoting the people’s health and two, moving at the frontiers of medicine.
He finally revealed his dynamism in working long hours from dawn to dusk: his love and deep respect for the faculties and students and the progress of the University.

Dr. Shams Shariat Torbaghan, the provost pathologist, was the second to take the stage where he said a professor should be very patient and devote himself to heavenly goals.

Dr. Yadgari, the head of ACECR branch in TUMS said students were in real need to recognize the ones who have devoted themselves to academic activity.

In the end, every candidate was called onto the stage where they were applauded by the staff, students and faculty members and were given plaques of appreciation.

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TUMS Chancellor Condoles Faculties and Students for the Loss of Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the Provost Medical Histologist

TUMS Chancellor Condoles Faculties and Students for the Loss of Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the Provost Medical Histologist
Date: 5/8/2011

TUMSPR News: TUMS Chancellor condoles faculties and students for the loss of Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the provost medical histologist, who passed away on April 7, 2011.

The chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Dr. Bagher Larijani, condoled faculties and students for the loss of Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the provost medical histologist, who passed away on April 7, 2011.

Expressing his deepest sorrows for the loss of professor Rodjhan, the chancellor said the medical society in Iran would not forget the sincere efforts by the professor whose utmost goal was to promote medical science in the country.

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Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the Provost Medical Histologist, Passes Away

Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the Provost Medical Histologist, Passes Away
Date: 5/8/2011

TUMSPR News: Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the provost histologist of Tehran University of Medical Sciences passed away on Saturday May 7, 2011.

Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Rodjhan, the provost medical histologist who was born in Shiraz in 1931 and obtained his degree in medicine in 1965 and later became a full-professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in 1989 passed away on Saturday May 7, 2011 due to cardiac problems.

Dr. Rodjhan was selected as one of the best faculties in the country in 1989 and his efforts made him a “lasting national figure” in science in 2001. Rodjhan was a dedicated author of histology and had grown interests in medicinal herbs and medical ethics which bore fruit when he published books on the subjects. He also published books on medical embryology, medical histology and also authored a précis of Avicenna’s Canon of Law in Medicine, Atlas of Diseases for Pathologists, etc.

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Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Indexed in SCOPUS

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Indexed in SCOPUS
Date: 5/8/2011

TUMSPR News: The Iranian Journal of Psychiatry which is published by TUMS Psychiatry and Psycology Research Center has been indexed in Scopus.

The Iranian Journal of Psychiatry which is published in English by Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has been indexed in Scopus. At the present time, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature.

Although the research center, headed by Dr. Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, was established in 2004 but it is located in Rouzbeh Psychiatry Hospital which is the birthplace of modern psychiatry in Iran. The research center has a good record in knowledge production and it has published 218 articles in foreign and 210 in domestic scientific journals in the past few years. Supporting 87 dissertations in graduate and postgraduate degrees,, publication of 45 books and conduction of 124 projects are the fruit of efforts put forward by the faculties and students at the research center which has been selected as one of the best research centers at the university and in Iran in the past five years at Avicenna and Razi Research Festivals.

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Nasrin Soltan-khah Calls for Action upon Unveilment of the State’s Health Sector Scientific Map

Nasrin Soltan-khah Calls for Action upon Unveilment of the State’s Health Sector Scientific Map
Date: 5/4/2011

TUMSPR News: At the meeting for the unveilment of Iran’s scientific map in the health sector, the vice-president for science and technology, Dr. Nasrin Soltan-khah asked all to fulfill the objectives of the map on May 3, 2011.

At the meeting for the unveilment of Iran’s scientific map in the health sector in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Dr. Nasrin Soltan-khah, the vice-president for science and technology, said that the scientific map was a starting point for work and the map had to be implemented, updated, used as a template for the 5-year plans of the country and surveyed to materialize its objectives that were guarantee the health of people and develop the country.

She also suggested the creation of a headquarter to monitor the way the map was implemented in different organizations and institutes.

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Mokhber Dezfouli Emphasizes on the Need for Quality Articles to Increase Patents

Mokhber Dezfouli Emphasizes on the Need for Quality Articles to Increase Patents
Date: 5/4/2011

TUMSPR News: Mohammadreza Mokhber Dezfouli, the secretary for the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution said on Tuesday that scientific articles needed to be of more quality to increase the number of patents in the meeting in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) held for the unveilment of the state’s scientific map in the health sector on May 3, 2011.

The secretary for the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, Mohammadreza Mokhber Dezfouli, emphasized on the production of quality articles to increase the number of patents in a meeting in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) held for the unveilment of the state’s scientific map in the health sector on May 3, 2011. He added that the number of patents from scientific articles was one in every 350 articles in Iran which greatly differed from what is seen in Japan and the US which were two and three patents per paper, respectively.

He also said the materialization of the objectives of the scientific map were dependent on the increases of the research budget from the GDP.

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Iran’s Scientific Map in the Health Sector is Unveiled in TUMS

Iran’s Scientific Map in the Health Sector is Unveiled in TUMS
Date: 5/3/2011

TUMSPR News: Iran’s scientific map in the health sector was unveiled in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) by authorities from the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, presidential scientific deputy, Iranian Supreme Council for Culture and from TUMS on May 3, 2011.

Relentless efforts in the past few years culminated in the unveilment of the state’s scientific map in the health sector which was unveiled in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) by the head of the Ministry of Health’s Policy Making Council, Dr. Bagher Larijani, Minister of Health and Medical Education, Dr. Marzieh Vahid-dastjerdi, Vice-President for Science and Technology, Dr. Nasrin Soltan-khah, Mr. Mohammadian the head of leader’s office in universities and the secretary for the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, Dr. Mohammadreza Mokhber Dezfouli at Avicenna Conference Hall on May 3, 2011. Chancellors from different medical sciences universities were present in the meeting too.

In his opening remarks, Dr. Larijani thanked the faculties and the elite who had participated in the development of the map and said the scientific map is a document that sheds light to the way for the materialization of the state’s twenty-year plan.

Hinting at the change in the trend of disease and the efforts by countries in fostering their scientific map, the chancellor justified the move for adopting the document for the health sector. The chancellor reminding that the state’s higher education was a goal-oriented entity, cautioned authorities not to engage in unplanned programs which were doomed to waste time and energy.

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A Group of German Facility Management Experts Visit TUMS Firouzhar Hospital

A Group of German Facility Management Experts Visit TUMS Firouzhar Hospital
Date: 5/3/2011

TUMSPR News: Following the meeting between the German Facility Management Experts and TUMS Chancellor, the group visited TUMS Firouzgar Hospital on April 27, 2011. [H]

Following the meeting between the German Facility Management Experts and TUMS Chancellor, the group visited TUMS Firouzgar Hospital on April 27, 2011. The German facility management team, was composed of five professors and consultants from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Heidelberg, Bauhaus University and Dr. Gudat Consult private company, accompanied by a team from Iran's Ministry of Health visited Hasheminejad Kidney Center (HKC) on April 27, 2011.

This visit which took place from 12 - 15 pm started by a presentation introducing HKC and Moheb Hospital followed by a tour to the Hospital and its facilities. The German team had been impressed by the hospital's modern facilities.[H]

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Scientific Map of the State in the Health Sector to be Unveiled on May 3rd 2011

Scientific Map of the State in the Health Sector to be Unveiled on May 3rd 2011
Date: 5/2/2011

TUMSPR News: The Chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) disclosed on April 26th that the state’s scientific map would be unveiled in the university on May 3rd 2011.

The Chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has disclosed that the state’s scientific map in the health sector would be unveiled at the Avicenna Hall of the University on May 3rd 2011.

The chancellor said the efforts put to work over the past few years has blossomed and in the near future the scientific map of the state’s medical sciences universities will be finalized too. He added that the state’s scientific map in the health sector has clear strategies for future educational and research activities and it has been used to draw the scientific map for the development of medical universities.

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