Biostatistician

CURRICULUM VITAE

Zahra Bagheri

Associate professor of Biostatistics

Phone: +1-408-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6239-2925

Education

March 2012: Awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.

Dissertation: “Robustness of a mixed logistic model for testing homogeneity in multi-center clinical trials with equal and unequal group sizes”

February 2008: Master of Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Thesis: “Agreement analysis standardized weight-for-height centiles charts for school children of Shriaz-Iran with body mass index to assess child obesity” July 2004: Bachelor of Science degree with major in statistics, The University of Shiraz Research Interests

• Design and analysis of Clinical Trials

• Mixed-effect Models

• Structural equation Modelling

• Psychometric research

• Dyadic data analysis

• Meta-Analysis

Teaching Experience

• Introductory and advanced Biostatistics. Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. 2009-up to December 2022.

• Statistical methods II and III (M.S. of Biostatistics). Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. 2012 up to December 2022.

• Inferential statistics (M.S. of Biostatistics). Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. 2018 up to December 2022.

• Clinical trials (M.S. of Biostatistics). Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. 2012 up to December 2022.

• Generalized Linear Models (Ph. D of Biostatistics). Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. 2013 up to December 2022.

Editorial Service

Journal review: Advanced Biomedical Research, Annals of Colorectal Research, BMC Public Health, BMC Psychiatry, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, PlosOne, Inquiry, Psychological reports, Psychiatry Research, Iranian Journal of Cancer Management, Shiraz E-Medical Journal, Sage Open, Magazine of E-Learning Distribution in Academy, Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences

Editorial Board: Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences (2016-2018) Associate Editor: Shiraz E-Medical Journal (2020 up to now) Statistical Consultant: Computer and Research Consultation Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (2009 up to now)

Workshop Instructor: Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Sample Size Determination, Reliability and Validity of the Questionnaires, Meta-Analysis, Introductory and Advanced Statistical Methods in SPSS

Publications

1. Beyzaei Z, Bagheri Z, Karimzadeh S, Geramizadeh B. Outcome of liver transplantation in hepatic glycogen storage disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Transplant. 2023; 37(3), e14867.

2. Shaabani N, Parvizi MM, Bagheri Z, Saki N, Shahsavar Z, Heydarirad G, Tansaz M. Psychometric properties of a Persian version of the Vulvovaginal Symptoms Questionnaire for measuring vulvovaginal symptoms in postmenopausal women. Menopause. 2023; 30(3):323-328. 3. Mahmoodi M, Hejazi N, Bagheri Z, Nasimi N, Clark CCT, Moosavi M, Dabbaghmanesh MH, Mazloom Z. Validation of the Persian version of the sarcopenia-specific quality of life questionnaire

(SarQoL-IR). Aging Clin Exp Res. 2023; 35(1):137-145 4. Bagheri Z, Chamanpara P, Jafari P, Balhara YPS, Arya S, Ransing R, Đorić A, Knez R, Thi TV, Huong TN, Kafali HY, Erzin G, Vally Z, Chowdhury MRR, Sharma P, Shakya R, Campos LAM, Szczegielniak AR, Stevanović D. Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short form across ten countries: the application of Bayesian approximate measurement invariance. BMC Psychol. 2022;10(1):160. 5. Sepaskhah M, Karimi F, Bagheri Z, Kasraee B. Comparison of the efficacy of cysteamine 5% cream and hydroquinone 4%/ascorbic acid 3% combination cream in the treatment of epidermal melasma. J Cosmet Dermatol. 2022; 21(7): 2871-2878.

6. Pasalar M, Bagheri Z, Hojati-Moghadam A, Büssing A, Parvizi MM. Psychometric Properties of a Persian Version of the SPREUK-P Questionnaire: An Instrument for Measuring the Importance and Frequency of Spiritual/Religious Practices in Iranian Patients with Chronic Gastrointestinal Diseases. J Relig Health. 2022;61(4):3458- 3469.

7. Sepaskhah M, Sarani MB, Bagheri Z. Comparison of the efficacy of intralesional 5- fluorouracil/lidocaine/epinephrine injection with cryotherapy to treat common and palmoplantar warts: A randomized, controlled trial. Dermatol Ther. 2022 Sep;35(9):e15726. 8. Zarifsaniey N, Shirazi MO, Mehrabi M, Bagheri Z. Promoting self-management behaviors in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, using digital storytelling: a pilot randomized controlled trial. BMC Endocr Disord. 2022;22(1),74. 601-609.

9. Zarifsaniey N, Hedayat M, Mehrabi M, Bagheri Z. Video-based versus educational booklet training on self-care performance of patients with cataract. Bangladesh J Med Sci. 2022; 21(3). 10. Jafari P, Mehrabani-Zeinabad K, Javadi S, Ghanizadeh A, Bagheri Z. A Machine Learning Approach to Assess Differential Item Functioning of the KINDL Quality of Life Questionnaire Across Children with and Without ADHD. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2022; 53(5):980-991. 11. Bagheri Z, Noorshargh P, Shahsavar Z, Jafari P. Assessing the measurement invariance of the 10- item Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale and Beck Anxiety Inventory questionnaires across people living with HIV/AIDS and healthy people. BMC Psychol. 2021;9(1):42. 12. Ghaemmaghami P, Ayatollahi SMT, Bagheri Z, Jafarzadeh R. Covariate-adjusted Bayesian estimation of the performance of a continuous diagnostic test with a limit of detection in the absence of a reference standard: a simulation study. Commun stat simul. 2021; DOI:10.1080/03610918.2021.1881117.

13. Rezaei K, Nami M, Sinaei E, Bagheri Z, Kordi Yoosefinejad A. A Comparison between Effects of Neurofeedback and Balance Exercise on Balance of Healthy Older Adults. J Biomed Phys Eng. 2021;11(6):713-722.

14. Moslemi Haghighi F, Kordi Yoosefinejad A, Razeghi M, Shariat A, Bagheri Z, Rezaei K. The Effect of High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Functional Indices of Affected Upper Limb in Patients with Subacute Stroke. J Biomed Phys Eng. 2021;11(2):175-184. 15. Alamolhoda M, Farjami M, Bagheri Z, Ghanizadeh A, Jafari P. Assessing whether child and parent reports of the KINDL questionnaire measure the same constructs of quality of life in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2021;19(1):19. 16. Ebrahimi V, Bagheri Z, Shayan Z, Jafari P. A Machine Learning Approach to Assess Differential Item Functioning in Psychometric Questionnaires Using the Elastic Net Regularized Ordinal Logistic Regression in Small Sample Size Groups. Biomed Res Int. 2021:6854477. 17. Beyzaei Z, Geramizadeh B, Bagheri Z, Karimzadeh S, Shojazadeh A. De Novo Donor Specific Antibody and Long-Term Outcome After Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis. Front Immunol. 2020;11:613128.

18. Jalali M, Bagheri Z, Zare N, Ayatollahi SMT. A New Method for Imputing Censored Values in Crossover Designs with Time-to-Event Outcomes Using Median Residual Life. Biomed Res Int. 2020; 8475154.

19. Taghizadeh Sh, Pirouzi S, Zamani A, Motealleh A, Bagheri Z. Does Muscle Fatigue Alter EEG Bands of Brain Hemispheres? J Biomed Phys Eng. 2020; 10(2), 187-196. 20. Ghaffarinejad F, Kordi Yoosefinejad A, Pirouzi S, Shakibafar AR, Bagheri Z, Ghofrani-Jahromi M. EMG analysis of trunk muscle recruitment patterns of anticipatory postural adjustments during unilateral arm flexion in chronic neck pain patients. J Biomed Phys Eng. 2020. 10(10). 21. Sepaskhah M, Hemmatian Boroujeni N, Javaheri M, Bagheri Z. Comparison of therapeutic efficacy of topical treatment with phenytoin and fluocinolone on cutaneous lichen planus: A randomized, double-blind trial. Dermatol Ther. 2020;33(4):e13578. 22. Aslani FS, Sepaskhah M, Bagheri Z, Akbarzadeh-Jahromi M. Value of CD123 Immunohistochemistry and Elastic Staining in Differentiating Discoid Lupus Erythematosus from Lichen Planopilaris. Int J Trichology. 2020;12(2):62-67. 23. Bagheri Z, Taheri M, Motazedian N. The impacts of depression and anxiety on quality of life among patients with HIV/AIDS and their spouses: testing dyadic dynamics using the actor-partner interdependence model. AIDS Care. 2019; 31(12):1500-1508. 24. Bagheri Z, Akbari M, Jafari P, Huedo-Medina TB. Assessing the measurement invariance of the RCADS-25 questionnaire across gender and child-parent dyads in the presence of multilevel data. Qual Life Res. 2019; 28(3):829-840.

25. Sepaskhah M, Behdad K, Bagheri Z. The topical treatment of old world cutaneous leishmaniasis with gentian violet along with cryotherapy: a pilot single-blind randomized controlled clinical trial. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine. 2019. 52:e20180278 26. Abolahrari-Shirazi S, Kojuri J, Bagheri Z, Rojhani-Shirazi Z. Effect of Exercise Training on Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Heart Failure After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. J Biomed Phys Eng. 2019;9(1):97-104.

27. Khamesi L, Sepaskhah M, Dastgheib L, Bagheri Z. Efficacy of combination of fractional CO2 laser and tranexamic 5% gel in the treatment of melasma. JDC. 2019; 10 (3) :131-140. 28. Ebrahimian Dehaghani S, Yadegari F, Asgari A, Bagheri Z. The mediator effect of cognition on the relationship between brain lesion location and dysphagia in patients with stroke: Applying a structural equation model. J Oral Rehabil. 2019;46(1):33-39.

29. Jeddi M, Bagheri Z, Dabbaghmanesh MH, Omrani GR, Bakhshayeshkaram M. Revised reference curves of bone mineral density according to age and sex for Iranian children and adolescents. Arch Osteoporos. 2018; 13(1):132.

30. Ebrahimian M, Razeghi M, Zamani A, Bagheri Z, Rastegar K, Motealleh A. Does High Frequency Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) Affect EEG Gamma Band Activity? J Biomed Phys Eng. 2018; 8(3):271-280.

31. Rezaei N, Eftekhari MH, Tanideh N, Mokhtari M, Bagheri Z, Comparison of Antioxidant and Anti- Inflammatory Effects of Honey and Spirulina platensis with Sulfasalazine and Mesalazine on Acetic Acid-Induced Ulcerative Colitis in Rats. Galen Medical Journal, 2019; 8:e1095. 32. Dehghan H, Keshtkaran A, Ahmadloo N, Bagheri Z, Hatam N. Patient Involvement in Care and Breast Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life- a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Approach. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2018;19(9):2511-2517.

33. Abolahrari-Shirazi S, Kojuri J, Bagheri Z, Rojhani-Shirazi Z. Efficacy of combined endurance- resistance training versus endurance training in patients with heart failure after percutaneous coronary intervention: A randomized controlled trial. J Res Med Sci. 2018;23:12. 34. Maghami, Z, Sepaskhah M, Moghimi Sarani E, Bagheri Z, Maghami M. Alexithymia in vitiligo patients: a case-control study. Iran J Dermatol. 2018; 21: 138-141. 35. Rezaei N, Eftekhari MH, Tanideh N, Mokhtari M, Bagheri Z. The Protective Effects of Honey and Spirulina Platensis on Acetic Acid-Induced Ulcerative Colitis in Rats. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2018; 20(4):e62517.

36. Vojoodi Sardroodi M, Bagheri Z, Ghahramani L, Jafari P. Application of multilevel zero-inflated Poisson regression for assessing the risk factors of excess hospitalization among patients undergoing abdominal surgeries in Shiraz, Iran. J Gorgan Univ Med Sci. 2018; 20(2): 93-101. 37. Stevanovic D, Jafari P, Knez R, Franic T, Atilola O, Davidovic N, Bagheri Z, Lakic A. Can we really use available scales for child and adolescent psychopathology across cultures? A systematic review of cross-cultural measurement invariance data. Transcult Psychiatry. 2017;54(1):125-152. 38. Sepaskhah M, Sadat MS, Pakshir K, Bagheri Z. Comparative efficacy of topical application of tacrolimus and clotrimazole in the treatment of pityriasis versicolor: A single blind, randomised clinical trial. Mycoses. 2017;60(5):338-342.

39. Jafari P, Nozari F, Ahrari F, Bagheri Z. Measurement invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 across medical student genders. Int J Med Educ. 2017 30;8:116-122. 40. Alamolhoda M, Ayatollahi SMT, Bagheri Z. A comparative study of the impacts of unbalanced sample sizes on the four synthesized methods of meta-analytic structural equation modeling. BMC Res Notes. 2017;10(1):446.

41. Stevanovic D, Bagheri Z, Atilola A, Vostanis P, Stupar D, Moreira P, et al. Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale across 11 world-wide societies. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2017; 26(4):430-440. 42. Hazrati M, Hamid TA, Ibrahim R, Hassan SA, Sharif F, Bagheri Z. The Effect of Emotional Focused Intervention on Spousal Emotional Abuse and Marital Satisfaction among Elderly Married Couples: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Community Based Nurs Midwifery. 2017;5(4):329-334. 43. Hazrati M, Hamid TA., Ibrahim R., Hassan S., Sharif F, Bagheri Z. The Dyadic Effects of Controlling Emotional Abuse on Subjective Emotional Experience in Iranian Older Married Couples. Aust N Z J Fam Ther. 2017; 38, 514-528.

44. Allahyari E, Jafari P, Bagheri Z. A Simulation Study to Assess the Effect of the Number of Response Categories on the Power of Ordinal Logistic Regression for Differential Item Functioning Analysis in Rating Scales. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2016, 5080826. 45. Molazem Z, Noormohammadi R, Dokouhaki R, Zakerinia M, Bagheri Z. The Effects of Nutrition, Exercise, and a Praying Program on Reducing Iron Overload in Patients with Beta-Thalassemia Major: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Iran J Pediatr. 2016; 26(5):e3869. 46. Honarvar B, Lankarani KB, Ghahramani S, Akbari M, Tabrizi R, Bagheri Z, Poostforoushfard S. Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Toward Urban Family Physician Program: A Population Based Study in Shiraz, Southern Iran. Int J Prev Med. 2016; 7:3. 47. Bagheri Z, Jafari P, Mahmoodi M, Dabbaghmanesh MH. Testing whether patients with diabetes and healthy people perceive the meaning of the items in the Persian version of the SF-36 questionnaire similarly: a differential item functioning analysis. Qual Life Res. 2016, 26 (4), 835-845. 48. Jafari P, Stevanovic D, Bagheri Z. Cross-cultural Measurement Equivalence of the KINDL Questionnaire for Quality of Life Assessment in Children and Adolescents. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2016; 47(2), 291-304.

49. Jafari P, Allahyari E, Salarzadeh M, Bagheri Z. Item-level informant discrepancies across obese- overweight children and their parents on the PedsQL™ 4.0 instrument: an iterative hybrid ordinal logistic regression. Qual Life Res. 2016; 25(1), 25-33. 50. Stevanovic D, Atilola O, Vostanis P, Balhara YPS, Avicenna M, Kandemir H, Knez R, TomislavFranic T, Petrov P,Maroco J, Supic ZT, Bagheri Z. Cross-Cultural Measurement Invariance of Adolescent Self-Report on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0. J Res Adolesc. 2016; 26(4), 687-695.

51. Fard SJ, Ghodsbin F, Kaviani MJ, Jahanbin I, Bagheri Z. The Effect of Follow up (Telenursing) on Liver Enzymes in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Int J Community Based Nurs Midwifery. 2016;4(3):239-46. 52. Bagheri Z, Jafari P, Faghih M, Allahyari E, Dehesh T. Testing measurement equivalence of the SF- 36 questionnaire across patients on hemodialysis and healthy people. Int Urol Nephrol. 2015;47(12):2013-21.

53. Rafaati S, Bagheri Z, Jafari P, Soltani N. Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to Assess Structure of SF-36 (Persian Version) questions for normal people and patients with chronic diseases. HMJ. 2015; 19 (2) :111-118.

54. Jeddi M, Dabbaghmanesh MH, RanjbarOmrani G, Ayatollahi SM, Bagheri Z, Bakhshayeshkaram M. Relative Importance of Lean and Fat Mass on Bone Mineral Density in Iranian Children and Adolescents. Int J EndocrinolMetab. 2015;13(3):e25542. 55. Rezaianzadeh A, Maghsoudi B, Tabatabaee H, Keshavarzi S, Bagheri Z, Sajedianfard J, Gerami H, Rasouli J. Factors associated with extubation time in coronary artery bypass grafting patients. Peer J. 2015;3:e1414.

56. Jahanbin I, HoseiniMoghadam M, Nazarinia MA, Ghodsbin F, Bagheri Z, Ashraf AR. The effect of conditioning exercise on the health status and pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Int J Community Based Nurs Midwifery. 2014;2(3):169-76. 57. Bagheri Z, Jafari P, Tashakor E, Kouhpayeh A, Riazi H. Assessing whether measurement invariance of the KIDSCREEN-27 across child-parent dyad depends on the child gender: a multiple group confirmatory factor analysis. Glob J Health Sci. 2014;6(5):142-53. 58. Jafari P, Sharafi Z, Bagheri Z, Shalileh S. Measurement equivalence of the KINDL questionnaire across child self-reports and parent proxy-reports: a comparison between item response theory and ordinal logistic regression. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2014; 45(3):369-76. 59. Jeddi M, Dabbaghmanesh MH, RanjbarOmrani G, Ayatollahi SM, Bagheri Z, Bakhshayeshkaram M. Body composition reference percentiles of healthy Iranian children and adolescents in southern Iran. Arch Iran Med. 2014;17(10):661-9.

60. Ayatollahi SM, Bagheri Z, Heydari ST. Agreement Analysis among Measures of Thinness and Obesity Assessment in Iranian School Children and Adolescents. Asian J Sports Med. 2013; 4(4):272- 80.

61. Jafari P, Bagheri Z, Hashemi SZ, Shalileh K. Assessing whether parents and children perceive the meaning of the items in the PedsQLTM 4.0 quality of life instrument consistently: a differential item functioning analysis. Glob J Health Sci. 2013;5(5):80-8. 62. Jeddi M, Roosta MJ, Dabbaghmanesh MH, Omrani GR, Ayatollahi SM, Bagheri Z, Showraki AR, Bakhshayeshkaram M. Normative data and percentile curves of bone mineral density in healthy Iranian children aged 9-18 years. Arch Osteoporos. 2013;8(1- 2):114. 63. Jeddi M, Roosta M J, Dabbaghmanesh M H, Bagheri Z, Ansari Lari M, Ranjbar Omrani. Evaluation of bone mineral density in urban girls of Kawar-Fars. Iran South Med J. 2012; 15 (3) :209-220. 64. Jafari P, Forouzandeh E, Bagheri Z, Karamizadeh Z, Shalileh S. Health related quality of life of Iranian children with type 1 diabetes: reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ Generic Core Scales and Diabetes Module. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2011, 9:104. 65. Mortazavi SMJ, Atefi M, Roshan Shomal P, Tanide N, Radpey N, Bagheri Z. Characteristics of cool clot, the invented novel hemostatic agent. BLOOD (KHOON). 2011; 8(2):115-121. (Persian). 66. Mortazavi SMJ, MoslehShirazi MA, Tavassoli AR, Taheri M, Bagheri Z, Ghalandari R, Bonyadi S, Shafie M, Haghani M. A comparative study on the increased radioresistance to lethal doses of gamma rays after exposure to microwave radiation and oral intake of flaxseed oil. Iran J Radiat Res. 2011; 9(1):9-14.

67. Bagheri Z, Ayatollahi SMT, Jafari P. Comparison of three tests of homogeneity of odds ratios in multicenter trials with unequal sample sizes within and among centers. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2011; 11(1):58.

68. Ayatollahi SMT, Bagheri Z. New trends in weight-for-height charts of Shirazi school children in relation to the CDC reference data. Iran J of Pediatr. 2010; 20 (4): 407-412. 69. Jafari P, Akhtar-Danesh N, Bagheri Z. A Flexible Method for Testing Independence in Two-Way contingency tables. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods. 2010; 9(2): 443-451. Skills

Computing

Proficient at using SAS particularly in Simulation of categorical data, WINSTEPS, SPSS, PARSCALE, LMSchartmaker, Mplus, IRTPRO, NCSS, R, and MedCalc. Languages

Fluent in English, Farsi (Mother Tongue)

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