BOARD AND COMMITTEES
Hepatitis Monthly
Autumn 2010, Number 29, Volume 10, Issue 4, Quarterly
Chairman
Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shiraz, I.R. IRAN
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Seyed-Moayed Alavian, Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Managing Editor
Seyyed Mohammad Miri, MD, Research Associate of Hepatology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Technical Editors
Pegah Karimi Elizee, MD, Research Associate of Hepatology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Hadi Karimzadeh, MSc, Research Associate of Hepatology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mehrdad Nooranipour, MD, Research Associate of Hepatology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Associate Editors (A-Z)
| Peyman Adibi | I.R. IRAN |
| Samad Amini-Bavil-Olyaee | Germany |
| Saeid Ghavami | Canada |
| Mohammad Hossein Somi | I.R. IRAN |
| Marek J.Los | Canada |
| Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei | I.R. IRAN |
| Marc Van Ranst | Belgium |
| Babak Sayad | I.R. IRAN |
| Stephan Schaefer | Germany |
| Frank Tacke | Germany |
| Bita Behnava | I.R. IRAN |
Editorial Board (A-Z)
| Zaigham Abbas, MD, Associate Professor, Karachi, Pakistan |
| Abdul. Ghani Mohamed Ali Hasani Al. Samarai, MD, Professor of Dermatology & Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Clinical Virology, Tikrit, Iraq |
| Farhat Abbas Bhatti, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Karachi, Pakistan |
| Majid Bouzari, PhD, Department of Biology, Isfahan, I.R. IRAN |
| Bill Carman, PhD, Professor of Clinical Virology, Glasgow, UK |
| Heng Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Shanghai, CHINA |
| Harry R. Dalton, MD, Professor, Truro, UK |
| Nasser Ebrahimi Daryani, PhD, Professor of Gastroenterology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Azza Abdel Hamid El Sherbini, MD, Tanta, Egypt |
| Atefeh Ghanbari Khanghah, MD, Assistant Professor, Rasht, I.R. IRAN |
| Ali Akbar Haghdoost, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kerman, I.R. IRAN |
| Mehrdad Hasibi, MD, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Abtin Heidarzadeh, MD, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Rasht, I.R. IRAN |
| Hamidreza Honarmand, PhD, Assistant professor of microbiology, Rasht, I.R. IRAN |
| Seyed-Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini-Moghadam, MD, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Reza Jafari Shakib, MD, PhD, Assistant professor of immunology, Rasht, I.R. IRAN |
| Seyed Mohammad Jazayeri, MD, PhD, Clinical Virology, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Hossein Khedmat, MD, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Geng Tao Liu, MD, Professor of Pharmacology, Beijing, China |
| Lars Magnius, MD, PhD, Professor, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Seyed-Amir Mirbagheri, MD, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Seyyed Mohammad Miri, MD, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Amir Houshang Mohammad-Alizadeh, MD, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Helen Norder,, PhD, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Morteza Pourahmad, MD, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, Jahrom, I.R. IRAN |
| Michael Roggendorf, PhD, Professor of Virology, Essen-Holsterhausen, Germany |
| Mohammad Rostampour, PhD, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Medicine, Rasht, I.R. IRAN |
| Farzaneh Sabahi, PhD, Virology, Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
| Mehdi Sabei-Firoozi, MD, Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shiraz, I.R. IRAN |
| Ramin Sarrami-Forooshani, PhD Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada |
| Pedro Lopez Saura, MD, PhD, Professor, Havana, Cuba |
| Batool Sharifi-Mood, MD, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Zahedan, I.R. IRAN |
| Ahmad Shavakhi, MD, Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Isfahan, I.R. IRAN |
| Rasoul Tabari KhomeI.R. IRAN, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rasht, I.R. IRAN |
| Christian Trepo MD, Ph.D, Professor of Hepatogastroenterology, Lyon, France |
| Takuya Watanabe MD, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Niigata, Japan |
| Ralf Weiskirchen, PhD, Aachen, Germany |
| Javed Yakoob, MD, Assistant Professor, Karachi, Pakistan |
| Yun-Qing Yao, MD, PhD, Professor in Science of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Chongqing, China |
| Wen Zhili, MD, Associate Professor of Hepatology, Nanchang, China |
| Fangcheng Zhuang, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Virology and Clinical Epidemiology, Hangzhou, China |
| Arash Rashidian, MD PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Tehran, I.R. IRAN |
Address of Editorial Board
Hepatitis Monthly: Scientific Research Journal, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Ground Floor of Baqiyatallah Hospital, Mollasadra Ave., Vanak Sq., Tehran, I.R. IRAN
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Consultant Committee (A-Z)
Somayeh Abodollahi Sabet, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mehdi Abouzari, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Arezoo Aghakhani, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Masoud Ahmadzad Asl, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Seyed-e-Hoda Alavian, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Neda Ashayeri, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Majid Avijgan, MD, Isfahan, I.R. IRAN
Kourosh Azimi, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Sepeideh Besharati, MD, Guilan, I.R. IRAN
Naser Baligh, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Farzaneh Esna-ashari, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mohammad-Sadegh Fallah, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Sara Farhang, MD, Tabriz, I.R. IRAN
Ebrahim Fattahi, MD, Tabriz, I.R. IRAN
Gholam Ali Ghorbani, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Zahra Goodarzi, MSc, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Behzad Hajarizadeh, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Bashir Hajibeigi, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
CAI Hao Dong, MD, Beijing, China
Mohammad Hashemi, PhD, Zahedan, I.R. IRAN
Vahid Hoghooghi, PharMD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Seyyed Mohammad Javad Hosseini, IMD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Reyhaneh Jafarshad, MD, Guilan, I.R. IRAN
Younes Jahani, PhD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Nematollah Jonaidi Jafari, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Farahnaz Joukar, MSc, Rasht, I.R. IRAN
Ali Kabir, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Manoochehr Karami, MSc, Kermanshah, I.R. IRAN
Pegah Karimi Elizee, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Maryam Keshvari, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Ali Reza Khoshdel, MD, PhD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Nastaran Mahboobi, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Yousef Najian, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mehrdad Nooranipour, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Ali OmraniRad, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Hossein Poustchi, MD PhD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mahdi Rezai, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Saeed Safari, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Kobra Salami Kohan, MD, Guilan, I.R. IRAN
Mahmood Salesi, PhD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Shahnaz Sali, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mahtab Shabani, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Hafiz Muhammad Shafique, F.C.P.S., Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Saeid Shahraz, MD, MA, USA
Ahmad Reza Shamshiri, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Konrad L. Streetz, PhD, Achen, Germany
Vahid Tabatabaei, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Saeed Taheri, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Maryam Vaezjalali, PhD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Babak Yektaparast, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Mitra Zandi, MD, Tehran, I.R. IRAN
Language Editors
Hamid-Reza Tavangar, MD
Mohsen Reza Heidari, MD
Rocky Citro, M.S.W.
Christopher Boyle, B.A.
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