Speakers - 2024

Biography

Dr. Shahryar Eghtesadi received a Bachelor degree in Nutrition Science and Food Chemistry in 1975 from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; an MSPH degree in Nutrition in 1977 from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; and a PhD from the University of California at Davis (UCD), USA, in Nutrition (1985). He served as a visiting scientist at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University, Boston, USA (1994–1995), a full professor at Tabriz, Iran, and Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences, and currently serves as a professor at Azad University, Science & Research Branch. He was the chair of the departments of nutrition and biochemistry, biochemistry and clinical nutrition, and public health nutrition and nutrition at the aforementioned universities. I also served as Associate Dean and Dean of the School of Public Health & Nutrition and the School of Public Health of Tabriz and Iran Universities of Medical Sciences, respectively. He was selected as a distinguished professor and scientist at the preceding universities. For a long and extended period of time, I taught various courses in nutrition in undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and international bureau programs and directed many projects and dissertations for MS and PhD programs. I published numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals, edited several books, and finally served as the principal investigator of the World Bank Project for Capacity Building in Nutrition in Iran.