Gholamreza Heydari completed his MD in 1996 and he had MPH and PhD degree on epidemiology from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Dr.Heydari currently is director of Tobacco Prevention & Control Research Center and WHO Collaborating Center on Tobacco Control in Eastern Mediterranean region and also chairman and editor in chief of monthly tobacco control journal in Iran. He is conducting several studies on tobacco control and smoking cessation in Iran. He as a national expert in this filed had more than 40 papers internationally. He attended many training courses such as Classical Method in Data Analysis, Erasmus Medical University, Netherlands, December 2001 and Tobacco Free Initiative for Clinicians, St. George’s Hospital, London, England, July 2002 and Smoking Cessation, European Respiratory Society School, Bucharest, Romania, December 2004 and Methods in Epidemiologic Clinical and Operations in Research, American Thoracic Society, Cesme, Turkey, 2011 and 2012

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