Curriculum Vitae

Cardiology Department

Name: Seyedeh Haleh Ashraf-Talesh

Date of Birth: 1983/Feb/07

Place of Birth: Talesh, Guilan, Iran

Father’s Name: Davood

Marital Status: Married

Language: Fluent in Farsi, Turkish and English

Academic Rank: Assistant professor of Cardiology

Addresses: Sina Hospital, Hasan Abad Sq., Tehran 11367-46911 – Iran

Tel (Hospital): (+9821) 63120000

E-mail: ha_as_ta@yahoo.com

Education:

September 2009 – September 2013

Course of Specialty in “Cardiovascular Diseases”

Tehran Heart Center

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran – Iran

February 2000– September 2008

General Medicine (MD)

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran – Iran

Research consultant, Sinah Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

– Iran(2010)

Resident of cardiology, Tehran Heart center Hospital, Tehran University of Medical

Sciences, Tehran – Iran(2011-2014)

Consultant cardiologist, Shaheed Nourani Hospital, Talesh, Guillan, Iran (2014-

2015)

Assistant Professor; Sinah Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

– Iran(2015-present)

Executive activities:

Responsible for the Sina Hospital heart training course (2015-present)

Jobs AND clinical Activities

Heart advisor to the Vice-Chancellor for Medical Education of Tehran University of

Medical Sciences from (2015-2016)

Deputy Head of Student Education of the Department of Cardiology, (2016-

present)

Research deputy of primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases research center

(2016-present)

Member of the Research committee of department of internal medicine of Sina

Hospital (2016-present)

Research deputy of SINA Hospital, since 2019

Executive Secretary of symposium of Primary percutaneous coronary intervention

challenges, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017

Executive Secretary of congress of Primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Updates, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018

Scientific secretary of conference of treatment of dyslipidemia and high blood

pressure in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, Tehran University of Medical

Sciences 2017

2010 – Present Member of Iranian Medical Organization.

2014 – Present Member of Iranian Heart Association.

Awards:

1st Rank, Cardiovascular Diseases Oral Board (OSCE) Exam, 2013

Professional Society Membership

5 th

national Rank, basic science medicine Exam, 2003

21th

Rank, University Entrance Exam (General Medicine), 2000

Top resident of Cardiology of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2012

Top research resident of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2010

Top research resident of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2012

Top thesis of graduates of Tehran heart center; 2017

Top thesis of graduates of Tehran heart center annual congress; 2017

Shaheed Mottahari education Award, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2016

Ebne-Sina Top young researcher, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017

Ghadre ostad young teacher Award, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2019

Research Interests:

Preventive cardiology

Heart failure & Heart transplantation

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Research history:

• Cooperation with endocrine research center of valiasr hospital, Tehran University

of Medical Sciences

• Cooperation with Royan institute, radiology research center

• Cooperation with Tehran heart research center

Cooperation with cardiovascular primary prevention research center

• Cooperation with the Sina Hospital research center

Thesis:

Study of the relationship between microalbuminuria and insulin resistance (defined as

HOMA-IR criteia) in patients with type 2 diabetes (for General Medicine)

Investigation of relationship between hemoglibin A1c and coronary heart disease and its

severity in nondiabetic patients referred to Tehran Heart Center for coronary angiography

(for Specialty)

Investigation of body fat distribution on cardiometabolic risks in overweight and obese

people, Somayeh Shokrani (As guidance professor)

Investigation of the relationship of new metabolic indices with bone marrow

densitometry in sedentary premeneupausal women, Mahtab Salehi (As consultant

professor)

Evaluating the association between liver fat content and cardiovascular risk among the

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients presented to Sina hospital gastrointestinal clinics

in 1396, Saeed Pourhasan (As consultant professor)

Assessment of agreement between emergency physicians and cardiologists on

echocardiographic findings in patients with acute coronary syndrome in Imam Khomeini

and Sina hospitals of Tehran, Farideh Bagheri, (As guidance professor)

Association of Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio with Contrast-induced Nephropathy in

Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome with Angiography, Nasrin Babazadeh (As

consultant professor)

Investigation of age related variation in fat distribution within the body mass index

classes in people attending to weight reduction clinic of Sina hospital during years 1390-

97, Parisa Eshaghi (As guidance professor)

Investigating of relation of comparison of CBC factors (platelet/lymphocyte,

monocyte/lymphocyte, neutrophil/lymphocyte) with presence and severity of coronary

disease in men younger than 55 and women younger than 65 years old underwent elective

coronary angiography in Sina Hospital, Mahshid Faghani (As consultant professor)

Publications:

Published Articles:

1. Ali Vasheghani-Farahani, Fatemeh Kazemnejad , Khosro Sadeghniiat-

Haghighi, Soleil Saadat, Parya Tavakoli poor, Tahereh Yazdani, Mohammad

Alidoosti, Vahid Ghasem Amooeian, Haleh Ashraf. Obstructive Sleep Apnea

and the Severity of Coronary Artery Disease. Caspian J Intern Med. 2018

Summer;9(3):276-282.

2. Behnam Sobouti, Samileh Noorbakhsh , Haleh Ashraf, Shaghayegh Ashraf -

Talesh. Use of Probiotic for the treatment of acute rotavirus diarrhea in

children: a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial. International Journal of

Children and Adolescents 2017

3. Ali Vasheghani-Farahani, Haleh Ashraf, Maryam Abolhasani, Kaveh Hosseini,

Seyyed Aboozar jazayeri and Shahrokh Karbalayi. Evaluating the Association

between Anthropometric Indices and Cardiovascular Risk Factors with

Symptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Interv

Cardiol J 2015, 1:1. DOI: 10.21767/2471-8157.10002

4. Ali Vasheghani-Farahani, , Kaveh Hosseini, Haleh Ashraf, Maryam

Abolhasani, Shahrokh Karbalai, Alireza Ghajar, Mohsen Afarideh. Diabetes &

Metabolic Syndrome. Correlation of ankle-brachial index and peripheral artery

disease with the status of body fat deposition and metabolic syndrome in

asymptomatic premenopausal women. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2017 Jul -

Sep;11(3):203-209.

5. Akram sardari, Haleh Ashraf, Mani Khorsand, Hakimeh Sadeghian. Correlation

between Mitral Regurgitation and Myocardial Mechanical Dyssynchrony and

QRS Duration in Patients with Cardiomyopathy. J Tehran Heart Cent.

2014;9(4):147-52.

6. Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Ali Ghaemian, Elaheh Mehdizadeh, Haleh Ashraf.

Contribution of depression and anxiety to impaired Quality of life using the

short form 12 questionnaire in myocardial infarction survivors.

7. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 2014; 18(3):1-22

8. Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Ali Ghaemian, Elaheh Mehdizadeh, Haleh Ashraf.

Levels of anxiety and depression as predictors of mortality following

myocardial infarction: A 5-year follow-up. Cardiology journal 2014 Mar 27

9. Haleh Ashraf, Mohammad Ali Boroumand, Alireza Amirzadegan, Shaghayegh

Ashraf Talesh, Gholamreza Davoodi. Hemoglobin A1C in non-diabetic

patients: An independent predictor of coronary artery disease and its severity.

Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2013 Dec;102(3):225-32.

10. Yaser Jenab, Mohammad Saheb Jam, Azam Safir, Haleh Ashraf, Gita Ejmalian,

Ali Bozorgi, Hakimeh Sadeghian, Arezou Zoroufian, Neda Ghaffari-Marandi.

Strain Imaging for Evaluating Response to Thrombolytic Therapy in Pulmonary

Thromboembolism. Acta cardiologica 2014 Feb;69(1):23-8.

11. Mansoureh Togha, Alireza Sharifpour, Haleh Ashraf, Mansour Moghadam,

Mohammad Ali Sahraian. Electrocardiographic abnormalities in acute

cerebrovascular events in patients with/without cardiovascular disease. Annals

of indian academy of neurology 2013 Jan;16(1):66-71

12. Frootan M, Choobtashani S, Azargashb E, Amin PM, Hamide M, Zali MR,

Haleh A. Turk J Non-erosive reflux disease compared with erosive esophagitis

with regards to acid reflux and symptom patterns. Gastroenterol 2011

Oct;22(5):464-71

13. Hosseini SH, Yousefnejad K, Tabiban S, Nesarhoseyni V, Bagheri B, Kiasari

AM, Ghaemian A, Ghadirnejad SN, Lolati HA, Amiri FN, Ashraf H, Mokhberi

V. Effects of depression and anxiety symptoms on cardiac mortality following

myocardial infarction: a 2-year follow-up. Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract 2011

Jun;15(2):91-6

14. Nejati A, Moharari RS, Ashraf H, Labaf A, Golshani K. Ketamine/propofol

versus midazolam/fentanyl for procedural sedation and analgesia in the

emergency department: a randomized, prospective, double-blind trial. Acad

Emerg Med 2011 Aug;18(8):800-6

15. Razeghi E, Shafipour M, Ashraf H, Pourmand G. Lipid disturbances before and

after renal transplant. Exp Clin Transplant 2011 Aug; 9 (4):230-5 Razeghi E,

Shafipour M, Ashraf H, Pourmand G.

16. Akhlagh SH, Vaziri MT, Nemati MH, Ashraf H. Changes in liver enzymes and

bilirubin after coronary artery bypass grafting using acute normovolemic

hemodilution. Acta Anaesthesiol Belg 2011;62(1):11-4 Akhlagh SH, Vaziri

MT, Nemati MH, Ashraf H

17. Ashraf H, Rashidi A, Noshad S, Khalilzadeh O, Esteghamati. Epidemiology

and risk factors of the cardiometabolic syndrome in the Middle East. A. Expert

Review of Cardiovascular Therapy 2011 Mar;9(3):309-20

18. Nakhjavani M, Esteghamati A, Tarafdari AM, Nikzamir A, Ashraf H, Abbasi

M. Association of plasma leptin levels and insulin resistance in diabetic

women: a cross-sectional analysis in an Iranian population with different results

in men and women. Gynecol Endocrinol 2011 Jan;27(1):14-9

19. Amoli HA, Notash AY, Shahandashti FJ, Kenari AY, Ashraf H. A randomized,

prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the effect of topical

diltiazem on posthaemorrhoidectomy pain. Colorectal Dis 2011 Mar;13(3):328-

32

20. Ali Vasheghani-Farahani1, Maryam Tahmasbi, Hossein Asheri , Haleh Ashraf,

Saharnaz Nedjat, Ramin Kordi. The Persian, Last 7-day, Long form of the

International Physical Activity Questionnaire: Translation and Validation

Study. Asian Journal of Sports Medicine Volume 2 (Number 2), June 2011,

Pages: 106-116

21. Hadadi A, Zehtab MJ, Babagolzadeh H, Ashraf H. Contributing Risk Factors

for Orthopedic Device-Related Infections in Sina Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Iran

Red Crescent Med J 2011; 13(2):1-6

22. Ashraf H , Norouzi P, Jafari S. Hodgkin’s Disease with Hyperferritinemia,

Hepatic and Heart Failure. Govaresh Vol. 15, No.4, Winter 2011; 315-320

Trends of diabetes according to body mass index levels in Iran: results of the

national Surveys of Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases. Diabet Med

2010 Nov;27(11):1233-40. Esteghamati A, Ashraf H, Khalilzadeh O, Rashidi

A, Mohammad K, Asgari F, Abbasi M.

23. Taheri A, Javadimanesh MA, Ashraf H. The effect of oral clonidine

premedication on nausea and vomiting after ear surgery. Middle East J

Anesthesiol 2010 Jun;20(5):691-4.

24. Esteghamati A, Khalilzadeh O, Ashraf H, Zandieh A, Morteza A, Rashidi A,

Meysamie A, Nakhjavani M. Physical activity is correlated with serum leptin

independent of obesity: results of the national surveillance of risk factors of

noncommunicable diseases in Iran (SuRFNCD-2007) Metabolism 2010 Dec;

59(12):1730-5

25. Esteghamati A, Zandieh A, Khalilzadeh O, Meysamie A, Ashraf H. Clustering

of metabolic syndrome components in a Middle Eastern diabetic and non-

diabetic population . Diabetol Metab Syndr 2010 Jun 8;2:36

26. Esteghamati A, Ashraf H, Khalilzadeh O, Zandieh A, Nakhjavani M, Rashidi

A, Haghazali M, Asgari F.Optimal cut-off of homeostasis model assessment of

insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome: third

national surveillance of risk factors of non-communicable diseases in Iran

(SuRFNCD-2007). Nutr Metab (Lond) 2010 Apr 7;7:26

27. Esteghamati A, Rashidi A, Khalilzadeh O, Ashraf H, Abbasi M. Metabolic

syndrome is independently associated with microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetes .

Acta Diabetol 2010 Jun;47(2):125-30

28. Masoome Ghafarzadeh, Mehrdad Namdari, Haleh Ashraf. Vaginal birth after

cesarean section: A retrospective study. Pak J Med Sci October - December

2010 Vol. 26 No. 4 987-989.

29. Samadian M, Vazirnezami M, Moqaddasi H, Rakhshan M, Khormaee F, Ashraf

H. Endoscopic transrostral- transsphenoidal approach to petrous apex

cholesterol granuloma: case report . Turk Neurosurg 2009 Jan;19(1):106-11

30. Esteghamati, H. Ashraf, M. Nakhjavani, B. Najafian, S. Hamidi and M. Abbasi.

Insulin resistance is an independent correlate of increased urine albumin

excretion: a cross-sectional study in Iranian Type 2 diabetic patients A.

DIABETIC Medicine 2009; 26: 1464-5491

31. Zadehmodarres S, Oladi B, Saeedi S, Jahed F, Ashraf H. Intrauterine

insemination with husband semen: an evaluation of pregnancy rate and factors

affecting outcome . J Assist Reprod Genet 2009 Jan;26(1):7-11

32. Samadian M, Vahidi S, Khormaee F, Ashraf H. Isolated, primary spinal

epidural Hodgkin's disease in a child. Pediatr Neurol 2009 Jun;40(6):480-2

33. Esteghamati A, Ashraf H, Esteghamati AR, Meysamie A, Khalilzadeh O,

Nakhjavani M, Abbasi M. Optimal threshold of homeostasis model assessment

for insulin resistance in an Iranian population: the implication of metabolic

syndrome to detect insulin resistance . Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2009

Jun;84(3):279-87.

34. Salehi I, Khazaeli S, Najafizadeh SR, Ashraf H, Malekpour M . High

prevalence of low bone density in young Iranian healthy individuals Clin

Rheumatol. 2009 Feb;28(2):173-7.

35. Esteghamati A, Ashraf H, Rashidi A, Meysamie A. Waist circumference cut-

off points for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in Iranian adults. Diabetes

Res Clin Pract. 2008 Oct;82(1):104-7.

36. Alavi S, Ashraf H, Rashidi A, Hosseini N, Abouzari M, Naderifar M.

Distribution of ABO blood groups in childhood acute leukemia. Pediatr

Hematol Oncol. 2006 Dec;23(8):611-7

37. Ali Vasheghani-Farahani, Somayeh Afshar, Maryam Salimnejad, Ebrahim

Kasaian, Mohammad Ali Boroumand, Gholamreza D -avoodi, Alipasha

Meysamie, Tahereh Yazdani, Vahid Ghasem Amooeian, Haleh Ashraf .

Physical Inactivity is Related to Unheralded Myocardial Infarction More Than

Uncomplicated Stable Angina, Clinical Exercise Physiology 2018

38. The first evidence for cardiac auricles in Ancient Egyptian archaeological

findings is discussed by scholars from Iran, 2018

39. Ashraf H, Soltani D, Sobh-Rakhshankhah A, Jafari S, Boroumand MA,

Goudarzi V, Vasheghani Farahani A, Masoudkabir F. Visfatin as marker of

isolated coronary artery ectasia and its severity, Cytokine. 2018 Jul 9. pii:

S1043-4666 Chest compression for syncope in medieval Persia 2018

شيوع عوامل تعييه كىىدي پيش آگٍي در كودكان مبتال بً لوسمي حاد لىفوبالستيك در بيمارستان كودكان .40

1379تا 1376مفيد بيه سالٍاي Iranian Journal of Pediatrics ثميه علوي، محمدتقي

ارزاويان، ميترا مرادمىد، سيدي ٌالً اشرف تالش

41. Ali Vasheghani Farahani, Fatemeh Kazemnejad, Khosro Sadeghniiat-Haghighi,

Soleil Saadat, Parya Tavakolipoor, Tahereh Yazdani, Mohammad Alidoosti,

Vahid Ghasem-Amooeian, Haleh Ashraf. Obstructive sleep apnea and severity of

coronary artery disease. Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine 9(3):276-282

42. Majid Dadmehr, Mohsen Bahrami1, Behzad Eftekhar, Haleh Ashraf,

HasanAhangar. Chest compression for syncope in medieval Persia; The earliest

recorded external cardiac compression performed for syncope in Ancient Iran: an

historical perspective from the viewpoint of Nafis al-Kermani. CardioPulse.

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy374

43. Parvaneh, N., Pourakbari, B., Daneshjoo, K.H., Ashraf H., Salavati, A., Mamishi,

S. Polymorphism in the first intron of interferon-gamma gene (+874T/A) in

patients with BCG adenitis. Iranian Journal of Public Health, 38(3), pp. 12-16

Presentations and Abstracts

1. The impact of introduction of Code-STEMI program on the reduction of door-to-balloon

time in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary

percutaneous coronary intervention: A single-center study in Iran, congress of Primary

percutaneous coronary intervention Updates, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of

Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

2. Delay from symptom onset to first medical contact among patients with ST-segment

elevation myocardial infarction. It’s time to go beyond the door-to-balloon time, congress

of Primary percutaneous coronary intervention Updates, Sina Hospital, Tehran University

of Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

3. In-hospital mortality after acute STEMI in patients undergoing primary PCI, congress of

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention Updates, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of

Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

4. The Impact of Admission Serum Creatinine on Major Adverse Clinical Events in ST-

Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous

Coronary Intervention, congress of Primary percutaneous coronary intervention Updates,

Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

5. Culprit lesion ectasia, an independent predictor of mortality after primary PCI for ST-

elevation myocardial infarction, congress of Primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Updates, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

6. Elevated mean platelet volume predicts in-hospital mortality after primary percutaneous

coronary intervention in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, congress of

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention Updates, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of

Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

7. Treatment of high blood pressure in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, Tehran

University of Medical Sciences, Iran 2017

8. Association of GFR on Presentation with Subsequent 4 years Clinical in Acute Coronary

Syndrome, The 16th International Congress on Nephrology, Dialysis and

Transplantation, and the Third International Congress on Transplantation, , Iran 2017

9. Psychocardiology in elderly, Seminar of geriatric psychiatry, Tehran University of

Medical Sciences, Iran 2018

10. The assessment of myocardial repolarization parameters in patients candidates for renal

transplantation, The 17th International Congress on Nephrology, Dialysis and

Transplantation, and the 4th

International Congress on Transplantation, , Iran 2018

11. Syncope, Annual conference of Tehran Heart Center, Iran 2015

12. Graves' disease thyrotoxicosis coincident with generalized myasthenia gravis: the

treatment of the former may aggravate the latter, 9th Asia and Oceania Thyroid

Association Congress 2010

Books

A textbook and atlas of hysterosalpingography

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