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President, Iranian Medical Informatics Association
Tehran, IRAN
Profile: Dr Moghaddam has an academic and professional medical and health informatics background. He has taken over a position as director of medical informatics department at the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO), which is responsible for providing healthcare services to 27 million people, since 2000. He has many experiences at the national and international levels as e-health expert & advisor, researcher, national project manager and coordinator, strategist in the field of health informatics during last sixteen years.
He represents the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) since 2003 in Iran and a UK based faculty of health informatics since 2002 in the Middle East.
He proposed to IMIA the establishment of the Middle East Association of Healthcare Informatics (MEAHI) as a new IMIA chapter in 2003. He has continued his efforts to grow up this association based on IMIA board recommendation since 2004.
Dr Moghaddam proposed the MEAHI strategic plan (2007-2012) entitled " Better Health through the Better Information: The agenda for the Middle East 2012 and beyond " in 2006 and is working with other experts in the region to make this agenda a reality. In the core of this strategic plan is to make a Biomedical/Health Informatics research and education hub in the Middle East region. |
