The Official USERN Congress Website
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“Meet the experts” sessions are organized in order to provide a friendly atmosphere for both senior and junior scientists.
In these sessions, a small group of talented and interested students will have a friendly meeting with an expert scientist. They can discuss different points. Usually, these meetings are an inspiration and guidance for the students.
Juniors can discuss about the experts’ experience in their personal, social, and scientific life. Therefore, the juniors may find the experts, professional role models to inspire them in their path.
Also, considering the very limited time we have in life, such opportunities might be once in a life time! So, be wise and don’t miss it!
He is an Iranian scientist, a professor of clinical immunology and allergy at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Associate Dean of International Affairs in the School of Medicine and the Director of Global Academic Program (GAP).
He is the mastermind, founder and current president of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN).
He is known for his research in Primary Immunodeficiencies, characterization and treatment. He initiated the Iranian Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases Registry (IPIDR) in 1999 under supervision of Professor Asghar Aghamohammadi, which earned him the best research project award in the 4th Avicenna festival.
He is professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California Riverside.
His main research interest is focused on the study of formation and evolution of galaxies using multi-waveband galaxy surveys obtained with 8-10 meter ground-based telescopes (Gemini, VLT, Subaru, Keck) and space facilities (HST, Spitzer, GALEX, Chandra). Using the observational data and stellar synthesis models, he studies properties of galaxies as a function of star formation rate, morphology, environment, color, luminosity and redshift. Over the past two years he has been involved in the following studies: developing the Balmer Break technique for identifying very high redshift massive galaxies, using the combined HST and Spitzer data; discovery of an extremely massive and evolved galaxy at z ~ 7 (this has been the subject of extensive press release); study of the density-morphology relation over the largest dynamic range in density, and its evolution with redshift; planning and execution of the new Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), doubling the area and increasing the depth of the original HUDF; finding candidates for galaxies at z ~ 8 through searches for J-band dropouts in the new HUDF; study of the properties (SFR, mass, extinction) of high redshift galaxies selected through narrow-band Lyman emission (LAE) at z = 5.7 and comparison with Lyman Break Galaxies at the same redshift; developing a photometric redshift code to calculate redshift, spectral types and stellar masses of galaxies. He has been seriously involved in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) and The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) projects. He has also been leading parts of the new HST treasury project to survey the core and outskirt of the Coma cluster.
He is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. After attending medical school in Germany and completing internships in medicine and surgery in Germany and Britain, he spent several years in cardiovascular research at the University of California at San Diego to study coronary artery disease using intravascular ultrasound. He then completed his postgraduate training in Philadelphia and Dallas to join the cardiology faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a CT imaging fellowship in 2005.
Dr. Zadeh directs the CT coronary angiography core laboratory for the CorE-320 multicenter trial and is member of its steering committee. He is also co-director of the SCCT Board Review Course and editor of the SCCT Board Review Preparation Book.
Dr. Zadeh’s particular clinical and investigational focus is the pursuit of strategies to better identify patients at risk for future cardiac events using cardiac imaging. Dr. Zadeh is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and cardiovascular CT. He reviews manucripts for numerous scientific journals, including JACC, JACCimaging, JCCT, AJR, Heart, AJC, and is an author of articles in Circulation, New England Journal of Medicine, JACC, AHJ, and others.
Prof. Hans Dieter Ochs is an immunologist and pediatrician. He is Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
His research focuses on the molecular basis of Primary immunodeficiency diseases with special interest in the genes that have been linked to the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome, Hyper IgM syndrome, X-linked agammaglobulinemia, IPEX syndrome and autosomal dominante Hyper IgE syndrome. To improve the long-term outcome of these disorders, he has actively participated in clinical trials to develop strategies of immunoglobulin replacement therapies, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and gene therapy.
His clinical interests focus on the use of intravenous and subcutaneous immunoglobulin in patients with antibody deficiencies and the in vivo analysis of antibody production using bacteriophage Phi X 174. He and his collaborators contributed to the identification of several genes associated with Primary immunodeficiency diseases located on the X chromosome, including CD40L, Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein, Bruton’s tyrosine kinase, and FOXP3.
Dr. Shamshirsaz is a Fetal Surgeon and a dual board certified obstetrician and gynecologist and maternal fetal medicine specialist. He did his medical school in Tehran University of medical sciences in Iran and spent 4 years on research as a post-doc fellow in two of the best research institutes of the country. In 2003 he came to the United States as a graduate post-doc research fellow working at University of Colorado Health Science Center.
He did his internship and residency at University of Buffalo and University of Iowa Health Care. He, then, attended the University of Connecticut where he gets his maternal fetal medicine fellowship.
In 2012, his enthusiasm to patient care, research and innovation brought him to Baylor College of Medicine for two more years of training in fetal intervention and perinatal surgery; where he works as an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, maternal fetal medicine specialist and fetal surgeon now.
Prof. Abass Alavi is an Iranian-American physician-scientist specializing in the field of molecular imaging, most notably in the imaging modality of positron emission tomography (PET).
In August 1976, he was part of the team that performed the first human PET studies of the brain and whole body using the radiotracer [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
He holds the position of Professor of Radiology and Neurology, as well as Director of Research Education in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Over a career spanning five decades, he has amassed over 2,300 publications and 60,000 citations, earning an h-index of 125 and placing his publication record in the top percentile of scientists.