Davood Khalili

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Biography

Davood Khalili is an accomplished physician and epidemiologist with expertise in cardiometabolic disorders. He holds an MD, MPH, and PhD, and is a faculty member at the Prevention of Metabolic Disorders Research Center at the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences in Tehran. Key highlights of Davood Khalili's professional work:

Cardiometabolic Research and Consulting
- Conducts research on cardiometabolic disorders within large population-based cohort studies and clinical/community/field trials.
- Specializes in developing and validating clinical prediction models for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
- In 2020, was recognized as being among the top 1% of scientists with the highest citations in Endocrinology and Metabolism.
- Serves as a consultant for the Ministry of Health and the WHO country office in Iran, applying his expertise in practice.
- In 2023, received the Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from the World Health Organization.

Leadership and Collaboration
- Directs the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, providing data management and methodological/statistical support.
- Founded and serves as the Secretary-General of the Iran Cohort Consortium and collaborated with related international consortiums in the world.
- Joined the Department of Global Health and Population as a Lown Scholar in cardiovascular health in 2017.

Education and Training
- Teaches research methodology for endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism fellowships.
- Developed and teaches an advanced course on "Clinical Prediction Models" for PhD students of epidemiology, the first of its kind in Iran.

Education and Training

• MD, Medicine
  Urmia University of Medical Sciences
• MPH, Public Health
  Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
• , Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  Erasmus MC University
• PhD, Epidemiology
  Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
• Visiting Scholar, Medical Statistics
  Leiden University Medical Center

Awards and Honors

• WHO/Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Middle East and North Africa, 2023
  World Health Organization
• Honor faculty member at the SBMU University, 2017
  Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
• Among Excellent Scientists in Iran, 2015
  Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, Iran
• Honor researcher at the SBMU University, 2012
  Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
• Honor PhD student at the SBMU University, 2009
  Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
• Honor PhD student at the SBMU University, 2008
  Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Publications

• Exploring sex-specific genetic architecture of coronary artery disease in Tehran: a cardiometabolic genetic study.

  Najd-Hassan-Bonab L, Daneshpour MS, Jafarinia M, Akbarzadeh M, Moazzam-Jazi M, Asgarian S, Khalili D. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2024 Dec 05

• Effect of 3-year changes in adiposity measures on the pre-diabetes regression and progression: a community-based cohort study.

  Masumi M, Bahadoran Z, Mirmiran P, Khalili D, Sarvghadi F, Azizi F. BMC Public Health 2024 Nov 13

• Optimal risk thresholds for prescribing statins as primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Iranian general population: a benefit-harm modelling study.

  Khalili D, Saadati H, Baradaran HR, Hadaegh F, Steyerberg EW, Woodward M, Danaei G. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2024 Oct 18

• Age at menarche by birth cohort: A pooled analysis of half a million women in Asia.

  Abe SK, Nishio M, Huang HL, Leung CY, Islam MR, Rahman MS, Saito E, Shin A, Merritt MA, Choi JY, Katagiri R, Mohammadi Z, Shu XO, Wakai K, Sawada N, Ideno Y, Tamakoshi A, Seow WJ, Koh WP, Sakata R, Hozawa A, Kim J, Nagata C, Sugawara Y, Park SK, Kweon SS, Azizi F, Malekzadeh R, Moy FM, Pourfarzi F, Gao YT, Kubo Y, Hirabayashi M, Nagai K, Kimura T, Yuan JM, Kanemura S, Wada K, Kang D, Shin MH, Khalili D, Poustchi H, Rezaianzadeh A, Mansour-Ghanaei F, Najafi F, Mohebbi I, Boffetta P, Lee JE, Matsuo K, Rothman N, Qiao YL, Zheng W, Inoue M. Public Health 2024

• Examining the clinical and genetic spectrum of maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) in Iran.

  Asgarian S, Lanjanian H, Rahimipour Anaraki S, Hadaegh F, Moazzam-Jazi M, Najd-Hassan-Bonab L, Masjoudi S, Zahedi AS, Zarkesh M, Shalbafan B, Akbarzadeh M, Tehrani Fateh S, Khalili D, Momenan A, Sarbazi N, Hedayati M, Azizi F, Daneshpour MS. Sci Rep 2024 08 27