Committee Biography

Prof. Mohammad Ali Sahraian is currently a professor of clinical neurology and the director of the MS Research Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, as well as the vice-chancellor for the Iranian MS Society. Prof. Sahraian undertook his board of neurology and fellowship in medical education from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (2002) and then received training in Multiple Sclerosis at the University Hospital Basel (Switzerland). Prof. Sahraian has served as an investigator on several clinical trials and other research aspects of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders (NMOSD). Prof. Sahraian has published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented abstracts on MS and NMOSD at international meetings. Prof. Sahraian has been invited to deliver several lectures on clinical and radiological aspects of demyelinating disorders at different international meetings. Prof. Sahraian has published the MRI Atlas of Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis and has authored the "Multiple Sclerosis" chapter in the Encyclopedia of Diagnostic Imaging. Prof. Sahraian is also one of the authors of the MRI Training CD-ROM, which was translated into four languages.