Archives of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Hooman Mirzakhani

Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Channing Division of Network Medicine

USA

Academic Editor

Biography

Dr. Mirzakhani is currently a faculty member in the Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM) at the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an affiliated hospital of Harvard Medical School (HMS). He received an M.D. degree from Tehran University of Medical Science and did his training as an Emergency Physician. After a 3-year clinical research fellowship in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the Channing Laboratory where he completed his 5-year research fellowship and NIH NHLBI T32 training and meanwhile received his Ph.D. in Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics from Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, and master’s in medical science degree in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the NIH NHLBI T32 faculty team to share his structured multidisciplinary epidemiological, clinical, and translational training and expertise with research fellows and NIH T32 trainees. His works have focused on identifying prenatal factors and biological pathways during pregnancy influencing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, placenta development and nutrients that could affect both short and long-term maternal and child health outcomes including childhood asthma and atopy.  Dr. Mirzakhani serves as a mentor for T32 trainees working around prenatal exposures and genomics of adverse pregnancy and early life outcomes. While working on his own NIH grants and their translational objectives, he guides trainees on all aspects of the research process, including study design, statistical and network analyses of high dimensional biological data, communication of findings through oral presentations, and manuscript preparation.

 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA (https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/25665)

Research Interest

Epidemiology; genomics; translational research; pregnancy-related disorders and early-life adverse effects; bioinformatics; pharmacogenetics; developmental biology, childhood asthma and prenatal factors, prenatal vitamin D and nutrients, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preterm birth.