Dr. Mohammad Talaei is an M.D. M.P.H. with a Ph.D. in nutritional epidemiology. With 13 years of research in clinical medicine, epidemiology, and public health, he has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in biomedical journals. Dr. Talaei's research has focused on various risk factors of cardiometabolic disease including myocardial infarction, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension, ranging from diet to psychological factors. He was the principal investigator and director of the Isfahan Cohort Study, a longitudinal 10-year follow-up study on over 6500 individuals from urban and rural areas of Iran specifically designed for cardiovascular disease. In collaboration with another co-PI, he designed and performed a study about the role of acute stressful life events and social support in acute coronary syndrome as well as a large citywide study about the relationship of opium consumption with acute coronary syndrome and its 1-year complications. Dr. Talaei also collaborated with the Isfahan Healthy Heart Program, a large community trial that aimed at implementing healthy lifestyle initiatives on a large community scale and played major roles in some pharmaceutical clinical trials. Since joining the Ph.D. program, he has mostly focused on the role of diet in cardiometabolic disease and worked on soy and isoflavones, dairy and calcium, meat and heme iron as well as DASH diet and minerals. Since graduation, he has expanded his studies to aging and cognitive impairment. Dr. Talaei is also interested in gene-environment interaction and metabolomics studies.
Education
- M.D. M.P.H. Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (-)
Research Interests
Keywords:
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Nutritional Epidemiology Diabetes Hypertension Obesity Public Health Aging Asthma
Topics:
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Nutritional Epidemiology Diabetes Hypertension Obesity Public Health Aging Asthma
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