Boston, Mass., November 5, 2006 --
Hossein Bahrami, MD, MPH, was honored today with the Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award at the 134th American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Exposition. The award recognizes a health worker or student, age 30 or younger, who has demonstrated potential in the health field by challenging traditional public health policy or practice in a creative and positive manner.
Bahrami, a graduate of the School of Medicine in Tehran, Iran, is a doctorate candidate in epidemiology and a master of health science candidate in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md. In nominating Bahrami for the Drotman award, APHA member Ian B. Berger, MD, DrPH, cited his “outstanding commitment to public health, preventive medicine, and, in particular, preventive ophthalmology.”
Bahrami, who has completed a medical internship and earned a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins, has authored 33 published papers in highly respected professional journals, including the American Journal of Epidemiology, the American Journal of Gastroenterology and Investigative Ophthalmology. He has authored or co-authored three public health books in Farsi and produced numerous oral and poster sessions illustrating his keen interests in research. Bahrami’s recent oral presentation at the 2005 APHA Annual Meeting, “Glaucoma: Transition to a new paradigm,” focused on the complexities of an important disease and public health concerns with early diagnosis and treatment.
Bahrami’s research interests include cardiovascular disease, heart failure, metabolic syndrome, preventive ophthalmology, hepatitis, glaucoma and clinical and genetic epidemiology. Among his professional experience, Bahrami has worked as a member of the sport medicine committee of the Medical Confederation of Sports Organizations in Tehran, Iran, a member of the tuberculosis research team at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences Student Research Center and as a clinician in private practice in Tehran.
He is a member of the Science Advisory Board in Arlington, Va., and the Johns Hopkins University Peer Editing Service as well as research consultant and coordinator of research projects for the Digestive Disease Research Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Among his many volunteer and elected appointments, Bahrami currently serves on the APHA Governing Council, is a student member of the APHA Science Board and is a member of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s Academic Affairs Committee, Elections Committee and Awards Committee.