Yazdan Yazdanpanah is an

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian born

infectiologist Infectious diseases or ID, also known as infectiology, is a medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of infections. An infectious diseases specialist's practice consists of managing nosocomial ( healthcare-acquired) infections or ...

who is head of the Infectious Disease department at

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. He was Professor of Medicine at

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...

. He became an MD from the Lille School of Medicine in 1996, obtained a Master of Science in epidemiology from the

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

in 2000, and completed a PhD in public health from the Bordeaux School of Public Health in 2002. He has an

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of 64 according to

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1965 births Living people Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Academic staff of Paris Diderot University 21st-century Iranian physicians {{Iran-med-bio-stub