Ali Montazeri (Ali Montazeri Moghaddam, born September 2, 1958) is an Iranian

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research. He is editor-in-chief of an Iranian health journal:
Payesh
(Health Monitor-''the journal of Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research) and the associate editor of '' Health and Quality of Life Outcomes'' and academic editor for '' PLOS One''. He has been three times the director of

Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research The Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR) ( fa, جهاد دانشگاهی) is an Iranian private non-governmental higher education institution established in 1980. Mission ACECR engages in innovative research and developmen ...

Education

Montazeri received his PhD from

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; his thesis concerned the quality of life in lung cancer patients, and was jointly supervised by Charles Gillis and James McEwen.

Research

Montazeri published a paper in 2004 that found that knowledge of cancer diagnosis does not change how a person fills out a questionnaire about his or her quality of life. In a 2012 book chapter, he proposed that research be conducted to see how quality of life in people with cancer is affected by the way a cancer diagnosis is disclosed and how the person's level of education affects quality of life. He also published papers in 2002, 2003, and 2015 about the

epidemiology of breast cancer Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women.The most common form of cancer is non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancer; non-invasive cancers are generally easily cured, cause very few deaths, and are routinely excluded from c ...

and breast cancer preventive behaviors such as breast self-examination In 2008, he published a review of the literature on quality of life in people with breast cancer.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Montazeri, Ali Iranian epidemiologists Alumni of the University of Glasgow 1958 births Living people People from Tehran