Prof. Hormoz Chams -the son of the founder of Farabi Hospital- was honoured with the Allamah Tabatabai Award by the Iran National Elites Foundation, in 2013 and was given the right to hold a research chair. Farabi Eye Hospital, a premier national eye institute and a comprehensive centre of excellence in ophthalmology, hosts the Chair.
Prof. Hormoz Chams
The mission of the Chair is to focus on Public Health Ophthalmology (PHO), covering evidence generation- policy outreach, graduate studies and researches, and eye health care delivery modeling.
Long-term objectives are:
- Establishment of a population lab and study of the social determinants of visual health and equity in eye care
- Post-doctoral and PhD by Research trainings on ophthalmic epidemiology, ophthalmic economics, ophthalmic dietetics, ophthalmic biostatistics, ophthalmic molecular epidemiology, and community ophthalmology
- Hosting visiting professors on PHO
- Health systems research (HSR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR)
- Researches in health economics and ophthalmic technology assessment
- Holding workshops and seminars on PHO; networking, guest researchers involvement
- Ophthalmic knowledge translation: factsheets, advocacy papers, policy brief development
- Policy analyses on the prevention of blindness and eye health
Chams Research Chair Members:
Hormoz Shams, MD-Subspecialty in Retina
Professor & Chairholder
Mahmoud Jabarvand Behrouz, MD-Subspecialty in Cornea and Anterior Segment
Professor & the Host
Alireza Lashay, MD-Subspecialty in Retina
Professor & Chair Consultant
Seyed-Farzad Mohammadi, MD-Subspecialty in Cornea
Associate Professor & Chair Executive Director
Cyrus Alinia, PhD in Health Economy
Chair Researcher
Elham Ashrafi, PhD in Epidemiology
Chair Researcher
For Collaboration please contact us at eye@tums.ac.ir
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