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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Mehdi Mohamadnejad, MD, FASGE

Date of birth: May 25, 1971

Place of birth: Tehran, Iran

Language Skills: Farsi: Native

English: Proficient

Current Position: Associate professor of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Education:

1989-1996 M.D. School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Postdoctoral Training:

1996-2000 Resident, Internal Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2001-2003 Clinical Fellow, Gastroenterology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2009-2010 Clinical Fellow, Advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA Board Certifications:

Internal Medicine: 2000

Gastroenterology: 2003

Academic Appointments:

1/2001-9/2001 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2001-2003 Clinical Fellow of Gastroenterology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2007-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

2009-2010 Clinical Fellow of Advanced gastrointestinal endoscopy, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA 2010-present Co-Director, EUS fellowship program, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

4/2015-2/2016 Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA, School of Medicine, Advanced endoscopy section, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2010-10/2018 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

10/2018-present Associate Professor of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hospital Appointments:

1/2001-9/2001 Attending physician (Internist), Shariati hospital, Tehran, Iran 2004-2005 Attending physician (Gastroenterologist), Firuzgar hospital, Tehran, Iran 2005-2007 Attending physician (Gastroenterologist), Rasool Akram hospital, Tehran, Iran

2009-2010 Clinical fellow of advanced endoscopy, Indiana University Health University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA

2010-present Attending physician (Gastroenterologist), Shariati hospital, Tehran, Iran

Awards and Honors:

2000 First rank in the Nationwide Board of Internal Medicine, Iran 2003 First rank in the Nationwide Board of Gastroenterology, Iran Updated: 10-14-2020

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2004 Travel Grant Award for the United European Gastroenterology Week,

(UEGW), Prague, Czech Republic

2005 Travel Grant Award for the United European Gastroenterology Week,

(UEGW), Copenhagen, Denmark

2006 Travel Grant Award for the United European Gastroenterology Week,

(UEGW), Berlin, Germany

2012 Distinguished Research Award, Nationwide Razi Biomedical Festival 2014 Scopus Award for Iranian Young Scientists

2018 Distinguished Gastroenterologist Award, Iranian Association of Gastroenterology

USMLE exams:

USMLE step 1: Passed (Two-digit score: 99; Three-digit score: 244) USMLE step 2: Passed (Two-digit score: 99; Three-digit score: 263) USMLE step 2CS: Passed

USMLE step 3: Passed (Three-digit score: 235)

Membership in Professional Societies:

Year Society Name

2009-present Member of American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) 2019-present Fellow of American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE) Clinical Experience:

Clinical interests: Advanced gastrointestinal endoscopy; Pancreatobiliary disorders Procedure Proficiency: ERCP with stone extraction and pancreatobiliary stenting, ERCP with endoscopic ampullectomy, EUS with tissue acquisition, EUS-guided Updated: 10-14-2020

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drainage of pancreatic necrosis with endoscopic necrosectomy, EUS- guided biliary access, EUS-guided celiac plexus neurolysis, advanced resection techniques including EMR, Enteral stenting, Balloon dilation of strictures, Endoscopic control of bleeding Number of procedures performed:

EUS: more than 10,000 procedures

ERCP: about 2,000 procedures

Upper GI endoscopy: about 7,000 procedures

Colonoscopy: about 7,000 procedures

Services to Scientific Journals:

Year Activity Journal Name

2004-ptresent Journal reviewer Gastrointestinal Endoscopy VideoGIE

Endoscopy International Open

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Annals of Gastroenterology

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

2010-present Member of

editorial board

Middle East Journal of Digestive

Diseases

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Endoscopist at Live EUS Workshops:

Year Event Place

2011 Iranian Congress of Gastroenterology Milad Hospital, Tehran, Iran 2012 Iranian EUS Congress Firuzgar Hospital, Tehran, Iran 2016 Iranian Pancreatobiliary Congress Taleghani Hospital, Tehran, Iran 2017 Iranian EUS Congress Firuzgar Hospital, Tehran, Iran 2019 PHARMEDENT 2019 Erbil, Iraq

Teaching EUS Hands-on to Trainees:

Year Event Place

2018 EUS Day 2018 Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Invited lectures at International Congresses

Year Event Title Place

2018 EUS Day 2018 EUS staging of esophageal Dubai, UAE cancer

2018 EUS Day 2018 EUS for ampullary adenoma: Dubai, UAE Is it justified?

2019 PHARMEDENT 2019 Management of acute Erbil, Iraq necrotizing pancreatitis

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Selected Oral Presentations at International Congresses Year Event Title Place

2016 DDW Per-Pass analysis on the San Diego, CA

diagnostic yield of EUS-guided

FNA in solid pancreatic mass

lesions

Selected Invited Lectures at National Congresses

Year Event Title Place

2011 Iranian Pancreatic cystic lesions Tehran, Iran Pancreatobiliary

Congress

2012 Iranian Congress of Endoscopic treatment of Tehran, Iran Gastroenterology complications of acute and

Hepatology pancreatitis

2013 Iranian Congress of Pancreatic neuroendocrine Tehran, Iran Gastroenterology tumors

and Hepatology

2014 Iranian EUS Congress EUS-guided pseudocyst Tehran, Iran drainage

2015 Iranian EndoSummit Diagnosis and staging of Tehran, Iran pancreatic cancer

2016 Iranian EUS Diagnostic approach to Tehran, Iran Congress biliary strictures

2017 Iranian Congress of Principles of electrosurgury Tehran, Iran Updated: 10-14-2020

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Gastroenterology in GI endoscopy

and Hepatology

2018 Iranian Congress of Management of necrotizing Tehran, Iran Gastroenterology pancreatitis

and Hepatology

Mentoring Endoscopic Ultrasound Fellows:

Individual City of the trainee Inclusive Dates

Yaghoob Moaddab M.D. Tabriz, Iran October 2010-March 2011 Javad Shokri M.D. Babol, Iran April 2011-September 2011 Seyed Jalal Hashemi M.D. Ahvaz, Iran April 2012-September 2012 Masoud Khoshnia M.D. Gorgan, Iran October 2012-March 2013 Behrouz Mokhlesi M.D. Tehran, Iran April 2013-September 2013 Nader Roshan M.D. Tehran, Iran October 2013-March 2014 Ahmad Sadeghi M.D. Tehran, Iran April 2014-September 2014 Alireza Kaboli M.D. Karaj, Iran October 2014-March 2015 Mahsa Khodadoostan M.D. Isfahan, Iran April 2016-September 2017 Alireza Moayyed Kazemi M.D. Khoram Abad, Iran October 2016-March 2017 Altoun Mahmoud Saleh M.D. Erbil, Iraq October 2016-March 2017 Kambiz Akhavan Rezayat M.D. Mashad, Iran April 2017-September 2017 Kamran Shateri M.D. Urmia, Iran October 2017-March 2018 Amineh Hojjati M.D. Rasht, Iran October 2017-March 2018 Updated: 10-14-2020

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Bahram Seifi Zarei M.D. Hamedan, Iran April 2018-September 2018 Shahrokh Iravani M.D. Tehran, Iran October 2018-March 2019 Vahid Mirzaie M.D. Rafsanjan, Iran April 2019-September 2019 Hossein Nobakht M.D. Semnan, Iran October 2019-March 2020 Publication Metrics:

Author ID at Scopus: 572********

H-index at Scopus: 25

Total citations at Scopus: 2264

H-index at Google Scholar: 30

Total citations at Google Scholar: 3953

Selected Publications:

1. Mohamadnejad M, Pourshams A, Malekzadeh R, et al. Healthy ranges of serum alanine aminotransferase levels in Iranian blood donors. World J Gastroenterol 2003;9:2322-4 2. Malekzadeh R, Mohamadnejad M, Nasseri-Moghaddam S, et al. Reversibility of cirrhosis in autoimmune hepatitis. Am J Med 2004;117:125-9

3. Malekzadeh R, Mohamadnejad M, Rakhshani N, et al. Reversibility of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004; 2:344-7 4. Shahbazkhani B, Mohamadnejad M, Malekzadeh R, et al. Coeliac disease is the most common cause of chronic diarrhea in Iran. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004;16:665-668 Updated: 10-14-2020

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5. Shahbazkhani B, Faezi T, Akbari M, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Coeliac disease in Iranian type I diabetic patients. Dig Liver Dis 2004;36:191-4

6. Nasseri-Moghaddam S, Mohamadnejad M, Malekzadeh R, et al. Gastrointestinal: Polypoid arteriovenous malformation of the colon. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004;19:1419 7. Sadr F, Mohamadnejad M, Malekzadeh R. Common variable immunodeficiency: Endoscopic and pathological findings. Endoscopy 2004;36:932

8. Mirbagheri SA, Mohamadnejad M, Malekzadeh R. Cystic duct stump stone. Hosp Med 2004;65:249

9. Ghadimi R, Mohamadnejad M, Mirbagheri SA. Biliary ascariasis. Hosp Med 2004;65:307 10. Pourshams A, Malekzadeh R, Monavvari A, Akbari MR, Mohamadkhani A, Yarahmadi S, Seddighi N, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Prevalence and etiology of persistently elevated alanine aminotransferase levels in healthy Iranian blood donors. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2005;20:229-33

11. Mirbagheri SA, Sohrabpour AA, Hasibi M, Moghimi B, Mohamadnejad M. 14C-urea breath test in patients undergoing anti-tuberculosis therapy. World J Gastroenterol 2005;11:1712- 4

12. Mohamadnejad M, Malekzadeh R, Nasseri-Moghaddam S, et al. Impact of immunosuppressive treatment on liver fibrosis in autoimmune hepatitis. Dig Dis Sci 2005;50:547-51

13. Mirbagheri SA, Mohamadnejad M, Nasiri J, et al. Prospective evaluation of endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis of biliary microlithiasis in patients with normal transabdominal ultrasonography. J Gastrointest Surg 2005;9:961-4 Updated: 10-14-2020

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14. Montazeri G, Estakhri A, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Serum hyaluronate as a non-invasive marker of hepatic fibrosis and inflammation in HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B. BMC Gastroenterol 2005;5:32

15. Mohamadnejad M, Montazeri G, Fazlollahi A, et al. Noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis and inflammation in chronic hepatitis B-virus related liver diseases. Am J Gastroenterol 2006;101:2537-45

16. Mohamadnejad M, Namiri M, Bagheri M, et al. Phase 1 human trial of autologous bone marrow-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. World J Gastroenterol 2007;13:3359-63

17. Zamani F, Mohamadnejad M, Shakeri R, et al. Gluten sensitive enteropathy in patients with iron deficiency anemia of obscure origin. World J Gastroenterol. 2008;14:7381-5. 18. Imaeda A, Sutterwala F, Mahmood S, Watanabe A, Sohail MA, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Aspirin blocks acetaminophen induced hepatotoxicity and mortality in mice- dependent on the ASC/Caspase-1 inflammasome. J Clin Invest 2009;119:305-14 19. Shakeri R, Zamani F, Sotoudehmanesh R, Amiri A, Davatchi F, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Gluten sensitivity enteropathy in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. BMC Gastroenterol. 2009;9:44.

20. Mohamadnejad M, Sohail MA, Watanabe A, et al. Adenosine inhibits chemotaxis and induces hepatocyte-specific genes in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. Hepatology 2010;51:963-73

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21. Pais S, Al-Haddad M, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Endoscopic ultrasound for pancreatic endocrine tumors: A single center 11-year experience. Gastrointest Endosc 2010;71:1185- 93

22. Mohamadnejad M, Emerson R, DeWitt J. Photoclinc diagnosis: Cystic neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. Arch Iran Med. 2010;13:445-6. 23. Mohamadnejad M, LeBlanc JK, Sherman S, et al. Bedside endoscopic ultrasound in critically ill patients. Diagn Ther Endosc 2011;2011:529791.

24. Mohamadnejad M, DeWitt J, Sherman S, et al. Role of EUS for pre-operative evaluation of cholangiocarcinoma: A large single center experience. Gastrointest Endosc. 2011;73:71-83 25. DeWitt J, Mohamadnejad M. EUS-guided alcohol ablation of metastatic pelvic lymph nodes after endoscopic resection of polypoid rectal cancer: Need for long-term surveillance. Gatrpintest Endosc 2011;74:446-7.

26. Mohamadnejad M, Al-Haddad M, LeBlanc JK, et al. Utility of EUS-guided biopsy of extramural pelvic masses. Gastrointest Endosc. 2012;75:146-51. 27. Mohamadnejad M, Kazemi A, Khatibian M, et al. EUS to diagnose common bile duct transection after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: With video. Dig Endosc. 2012;24:475 28. Mohamadnejad M, Eloubeidi MA. Cystsic lesions of the pancreas. Arch Iran Med. 2013;16:233-9

29. Nikfam S, Sotoudehmanesh R, Pourshams A, Sadeghipour A, Sotoudeh M, Mohamadnejad M. Squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas. Arch Iran Med. 2013;16:369-70. 30. El Chafic AH, Dewitt J, Leblanc JK, El Hajj II, Cote G, House MG, Sherman S, McHenry L, Pitt HA, Johnson C, Mohamadnejad M, Al-Haddad M. Impact of preoperative endoscopic Updated: 10-14-2020

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ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration on postoperative recurrence and survival in cholangiocarcinoma patients. Endoscopy. 2013;45:883-9. 31. Mohamadnejad M, Sotoudeh M, Malekzadeh R. Pancreatic tuberculosis masquerading as malignancy. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014;29:418.

32. Mohamadnejad M, Hashemi SJ, Zamani F, et al. Utility of endoscopic ultrasound to diagnose remnant stones in symptomatic patients after cholecystectomy. Endoscopy. 2014;46:650-5

33. Mohamadnejad M, et al. Biliary fascioliasis diagnosed on EUS. Gastrointest Endosc. 2016;83:658-9.

34. Mohamadnejad M, et al. Primary pancreatic Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosed on EUS-guided FNA. Gastrointest Endosc.2016 83:844-5.

35. Sadeghi A, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Diagnostic yield of EUS-guided FNA for malignant biliary stricture: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Gastrointest Endosc. 2016;83:290- 8.

36. Kim S, Russell D, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Risk factors associated with the transmission of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae via contaminated duodenoscopes. Gastrointest Endosc. 2016;83:1121-9

37. Lee A, Aditi A, Bhat YM, Binmoeller KF, Hamerski C, Sendino O, Kane S, Cello JP, Day LW, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary access versus precut papillotomy in patients with failed biliary cannulation: a retrospective study. Endoscopy. 2017;49:146-53.

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38. Mohamadnejad M, Mullady D, Early DS, et al. Increasing number of passes beyond 4 does not increase sensitivity of detection of pancreatic malignancy by endoscopic ultrasound- guided fine needle aspiration. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017;15:1071-8 39. Moossavi S, Mohamadnejad M, Pourshams A, et al. Opium use and risk of pancreatic cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018;27:268-73. 40. Ge PS, Wani S, Watson RR, Sedarat A, Kim S, Marshall C, Wilson RH, Makker J, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Per-pass performance characteristics of endoscopic ultrasoundguided fine-needle aspiration of malignant solid pancreatic masses in a large multicenter cohort. Pancreas. 2018;47:296-301

41. Mohamadnejad M, Kheyri Z, Zamani F, et al. Pancreatic hydatid cyst diagnosed on EUS- guided FNA. VideoGIE. 2018;4:379-380.

42. Sotoudehmanesh R, Ali-Asgari A, Khatibian M, Mohamadnejad M, et al. Pharmacological prophylaxis versus pancreatic duct stenting plus pharmacological prophylaxis for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis in high risk patients: a randomized trial. Endoscopy. 2019;51:915- 921

Selected abstracts:

1. Mohamadnejad M, Leblanc JK, Al-Haddad M, et al. Utility of Endoscopic Ultrasound for Evaluation of Pelvic Masses. Gastrointest Endosc 2010;71(5 Suppl):AB313. (DDW poster presentation)

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2. Mohamadnejad M, DeWitt JM, Sherman S, et al. The utility of endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis and staging of cholangiocarcinoma. Gastrointest Endosc 2010;71(5 Suppl):AB225.

(DDW poster presentation)

3. Mohamadnejad M, Hasehmi SJ, Zamani F, et al. Utility of EUS for diagnosing stone in gallbladder remnant or cystic duct stump after cholecystectomy: a prospective study. Gastrointest Endosc 2013;77(5 Suppl):AB422-3 (DDW poster presentation) 4. Mohamadnejad M, Zamani F, Setareh M, et al. EUS-guided intratumoral gemcitabine injection in locally advanced non-metastatic pancreatic cancer. Gastrointest Endosc 2015;81(5 Suppl):AB440-41 (DDW poster presentation) 5. Mohamadnejad M, Sadeghi A, Islami F, et al. Diagnostic yield of EUS-guided FNA for malignant biliary stricture: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Gastrointest Endosc 2015;81(5 Suppl): AB558-9 (DDW poster presentation) 6. Mohamadnejad M, Sohrabpour AA, Yazdi N, et al. EUS-guided drainage of peri-pancreatic fluid collections without fluoroscopic guidance. Gastrointest Endosc 2016;83(5 Suppl):AB521 (DDW poster presentation)

7. Mohamadnejad M, Mullady D, Early DS, et al. Per-pass analysis on the diagnostic yield of EUS-guided FNA in solid pancreatic mass lesions: Analysis from a multicenter randomized controlled trial. Gastroenterology 2016;150(4 Suppl): S222 (DDW oral presentation)

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