Reza Malekzadeh Gender: male Phone number: 0098 912 111 4139 Email: malek@tums.ac.ir Email 2: dr.reza.malekzadeh@gmail.com Address: North Kargar Ave, Shariati Hospital, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Postal Code 14117-13135 City: Tehran Country: IR IRAN __________________________________________________________ Personal statement I am Professor and the Director of Digestive Disease Research Institute of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. I have founded this institute in year 2000 as a research center and expanded it to an institute in 2012. My main field of interest are digestive oncology, and chronic disease with special interest in prevention of NCD. I have supervised and conducted several epidemiological and clinical studies. I have established the first large-scale cohort study in the Middle East and North Africa (the Golestan Cohort Study). I have successfully secured internal and external funding for this large study and several other studies.