Education

1988-1996 MD, Beheshti University of Medical Sciences- Tehran, Iran
1998-2001 Community Medicine Specialty Training Program, Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran
2005- 2006 Research Fellowship on Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, Cancer Research Center of Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2007 Summer Course on Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Genetic, IARC, Lyon, France

Research field

Cancer, Incidence, Risk, Immigration

Selected publications

Mousavi SM, Gouya MM, Ramazani R, Davanlou M, Hajsadeghi N, Seddighi Z. Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Iran. Annals of Oncology, 2009 Mar;20(3):556-63

Hemminki K, Ji J, Brandt A, Mousavi SM, Sundquist J. The Swedish family-cancer database 2009: Prospects for histology-specific and immigrant studies. International Journal of Cancer 2010;126:2259-67

Mousavi SM, Brandt A, Weires M, Ji J, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Cancers incidence among Iranian immigrants in Sweden and Iranian residents compared with the native Swedish population. European Journal of Cancer. 2010; 46:599-605.

Hemminki K, Mousavi SM, Brandt A, Ji J, Sundquist J. Histology-specific risks in testicular cancer in immigrants to Sweden. Endocrine Related Cancer. 2010;17:329-34.

Mousavi SM, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Is risk of pleural mesothelioma an environmental risk outside Turkey? A study on immigrants to Sweden. Lung Cancer. 2010;68:125-6