Assistant Medicine

CURRICULUM VITAE

Behnaz Erfani

Radarvägen **, Lgh 1502

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+46 (0-735-******

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Education

****-**** *** ******, ******* as a second language, Svenska 1, 2 and 3. 2012-2014 Master degree in Toxicology, IMM, Karolinska Institute (120 ECTS). Project, “Assessment of short and frequent skin contacts with nickel.” 2011-2012 Separate Courses, Uppsala University, Major Diseases - Homeostasis and endocrinology (15 ECTS) and Advanced Neuroscience (15 ECTS). Lernia, Swedish as a second language, basic.

2009-2010 Swedish for immigrants, SFI.

2005-2007 Clinical Pharmacy, Purdue University, USA (distance learning, 92 ECTS).

1997-2002 Bachelor of pharmacy, Ajman University of Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates (151 ECTS).

Experiences

2015- 2016 Research Assistant, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Solna.

As a research assistant, I participated in designing of different studies of relevance for metal extraction and skin deposition of metals on skin, and prepared, conducted, and evaluated trace metal analysis (Inductively coupled plasma spectrometry- ICP-MS).

Furthermore I prepared the documents and contributed to conduct a clinical study on chromium allergy and chromium-tanned leather. I met over 32 research persons within 4 weeks at the Centrum for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Stockholm County Council) which I helped in organization, and conducted most of the documentation of the study in Karolinska Institutes electronic lab book system. I have drafted three different manuscripts of which two have been published in Contact Dermatitis and one is under process.

2014-2015 Research Assistant, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Solna.

As a research assistant, I’ve been participating in and contributing to various research activities at the unit. Some of my assignments have been Participating in planning and designing of experiments, surveying literature, participating in journal clubs, performing the experimental procedure, modifying and validating skin sampling methods, handling the research subjects, participating in field sampling, running and analysing the metal samples with ICP-MS instrument, documenting the experimental procedures in the electronic lab book, and draft the manuscript that published in Contact Dermatitis June 2015. 2002-2005 Pharmacist, Razes Pharmacy, Dubai.

My responsibilities in Razes pharmacy included giving advice to customers, preparing, labelling and checking drugs and prescriptions. Research Experience and Contribution

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. November 2013-June 2014. Master Thesis: “A strategy to assess short and frequent skin contacts with nickel”. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10616/44538. Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Participated in planning of the study and design of experiments, performed the experimental work and chemical analysis, data treatment and interpretation of results, and drafted the manuscripts. Erfani B, Lidén C, Midander K. “Short and frequent skin contact with nickel”. Published in Contact Dermatitis Jun 2015.

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Participated in planning of the study and design of experiments, performed the experimental work and chemical analysis, data treatment and interpretation of results, and drafted the manuscripts. Erfani B, Midander K, Lidén C, Julander A. “Development, validation and test of a skin sampling method for assessment of metal exposure”. Published in Contact Dermatitis January 2017.

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Contributed to the design and execution of the study, conducted the acid wipe sampling, the analysis, and contributed to drafting the manuscript. Yolanda S. Hedberg, Behnaz Erfani1, Mihály Matura1,3, and Carola Lidén.“Chromium(III) released from chromium-tanned leather bracelets in skin contact elicits allergic contact dermatitis to chromium – a use test”. Published in Contact Dermatitis January 2018.

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Participated in planning of the study and design of experiments, performed the experimental work and chemical analysis, data treatment and interpretation of results, and drafted the manuscripts. Theodoros Samourkasidis, Behnaz Erfani, Carola Lidén, Mihály Matura, Anneli Julander, Klara Midander. “Clean skin -effect of hand washing on sensitizing metals on skin” (under process).

Language Spoken

Swedish Almost fluent

English Fluent

Persian Native speaker

Personal Information

Date of Birth: April 24, 1973

References

Carola LIDÉN Professor emeritus/senior physician, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. ******.*****@**.**

Anneli Julander Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. ******.********@**.**

Klara Midander Assistant professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. *****.********@**.**

Yolanda Hedberg Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chemical science and engineering, Dept. of chemistry. *******@***.**

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