Main areas of research:

Clinical Neuroscience
Auditory System
Visual System

Interests/keywords:

CNS

Current title/position:

MD
BSc

Current affiliation/employer:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

Publications:

Malekpour M, Fatehizadeh M, Hashemian SM, Velayati AA. Retaining health manpower in developing countries. Lancet. 2009 Jul 25;374(9686):291-2.
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Esfandbod M, Malekpour M. Images in clinical medicine. Cutaneous anthrax. N Engl J Med. 2009 Jul 9;361(2):178.
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Malekpour M, Sharifi G. Surgical treatment for epilepsy in developing countries. JAMA. 2009 May 6;301(17):1769
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Neumann HP, Erlic Z, Boedeker CC … Malekpour M, Zarandy MM et al. Clinical predictors for germline mutations in head and neck paraganglioma patients: cost reduction strategy in genetic diagnostic process as fall-out. Cancer Res. 2009 Apr 15;69(8):3650-6.
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Salehi I, Khazaeli S, Najafizadeh SR, Ashraf H, Malekpour M. High prevalence of low bone density in young Iranian healthy individuals. Clin Rheumatol. 2009 Feb;28(2):173-7.
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Kahrizi K, Najmabadi H, Kariminejad R, Jamali P, Malekpour M, Garshasbi M, Ropers HH, Kuss AW, Tzschach A. An autosomal recessive syndrome of severe mental retardation, cataract, coloboma and kyphosis maps to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 4. Eur J Hum Genet. 2009 Jan;17(1):125-8.
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Garringer H, Malekpour M, Esteghamat F, Mortazavi S, Davis S, Farrow E, Yu X, Arking DE, Dietz HC, White KE. Molecular Genetic and Biochemical Analyses of FGF23 Mutations in Familial Tumoral Calcinosis. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Oct;295(4):E929-37.
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Malekpour M. Cochlear implants. N Engl J Med. 2008 Apr 3;358(14):1522-3.
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Motasaddi Zarandy M, Malekpour M. Two Cochlear Implants; halving the number of recipients. Lancet. 2007 Nov 17;370(9600):1686.
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Garringer HJ, Mortazavi SM, Esteghamat F, Malekpour M, Boztepe H, Tanakol R, Davis SI, White KE. Two novel GALNT3 mutations in familial tumoral calcinosis. Am J Med Genet A. 2007 Oct 15;143(20):2390-6.
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Malekpour M. A jumpstart to nowhere. Lancet. 2007 Jul 28;370(9584):317.
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Hadavi V, Taromchi AH, Malekpour M, Gholami B, Law HY, Almadani N, Afroozan F, Sahebjam F, Pajouh P, Kariminejad R, Kariminejad MH, Azarkeivan A, Jafroodi M, Tamaddoni A, Puehringer H, Oberkanins C, Najmabadi H. Elucidating the spectrum of alpha-thalassemia mutations in Iran. Haematologica.. 2007 Jul;92(7):992-3.
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Malekpour M, Shahidi A, Khorsandi Ashtiani MT, Motasaddi Zarandy M. Novel syndrome of cataracts, retinitis pigmentosa, late onset deafness and sperm abnormalities: a new Usher syndrome subtype with X-linked inheritance? Am J Med Genet A. 2007 Jul 15;143(14):1646-52.
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Meyer NC, Alasti F, Nishimura CJ, Imanirad P, Kahrizi K, Riazalhosseini Y, Malekpour M, Kochakian N, Jamali P, Van Camp G, Smith RJ, Najmabadi H. Identification of three novel TECTA mutations in Iranian families with autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment at the DFNB21 locus. Am J Med Genet A. 2007 Jul 15;143(14):1623-9.
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Van Laer L, Meyer NC, Malekpour M, Riazalhosseini Y, Moghannibashi M, Kahrizi K, Vandevelde A, Alasti F, Najmabadi H, Van Camp G, Smith RJ. A novel DFNA5 mutation does not cause hearing loss in an Iranian family. J Hum Genet. 2007;52(6):549-52.
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Zhang Y, Malekpour M, Al-Madani N, Kahrizi K, Zanganeh M, Lohr NJ, Mohseni M, Mojahedi F, Daneshi A, Najmabadi H, Smith RJ. Sensorineural deafness and male infertility: a contiguous gene deletion syndrome. J Med Genet. 2007 Apr;44(4):233-40.
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Najmabadi H, Nishimura C, Kahrizi K, Riazalhosseini Y, Malekpour M, Daneshi A, Farhadi M, Mohseni M, Mahdieh N, Ebrahimi A, Bazazzadegan N, Naghavi A, Avenarius M, Arzhangi S, Smith RJ. GJB2 mutations: passage through Iran. Am J Med Genet A. 2005 Mar 1;133(2):132-7.
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Mohseni M, Arzhangi S, Malekpour M, Daneshi A, Farhadi M, Kahrizi K, Shafeghati Y, Javan K, Emamjomeh H, Najmabadi H. Study of the Relative Prevalence of 35delG Mutation in Connexin 26 gene in Autosomal Recessive Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss (ARNSHL) in Iranian Population. Hakim Research Journal Summer 2004; 7(2):47-52.
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Saberi H, Malekpour M, Hatami P, Jahanbakhshi A, Farough S, Gholipour T. Negative Priming Phenomenon: Introducing the Tasks and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Advances in Cognitive Science. Summer 2003; 5(2):61-69.