Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds

This book offers a practical guide to the clinical management of sulphur and nitrogen mustard exposure including information on the history, pharmacology and toxicology of mustard compounds (MC).

Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds details the many resulting complications of sulphur mustard (SM) poisoning such as respiratory, Dermatological, Ophthalmological and Psychiatric.

This volume is a key resource for clinical toxicologists, military and emergency physicians who are involved in the teaching and research of MC and for all medical and health professions who are responsible for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of MC poisonings.

Mahdi Balali-Mood was awarded B.Sc. 1^st class Hon of chemistry in 1963 and then MD in 1970 from Tehran University. After his medical military service and training in internal medicine/clinical toxicology, he was appointed as an assistant professor in clinical toxicology and head of his newly established Poisoning Treatment Center (PTC) of Mashhad University in 1974. Mahdi was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Science of Iran and did his

PhD in Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology at Edinburgh University Medical School in 1978-1981. He was then working as a lecturer in this department until winter 1982, when decided to return to Mashhad to advance his established PTC, as the chemical war gas attack of Iraqi army against Iranian troops was his main concern.

 

Mahdi promoted to Associate Professor and full professor of Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Mashhad University Medical Sciences (MUMS) in 1984 and 1988, respectively.

He has served as a Clinical Toxicology Adviser to the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) 1989 to date. He has also been a member of the IPCS Programme Advisory Committee since 2000.

 

Prof. Balali-Mood was a founding member and the first President of Iranian Society of Toxicology and was also elected twice as the president of Irantox between 1989 and 2

001. He has been a

member of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences since its establishment in 1990.

 

Mahdi with collaboration of the other Internationally recognized medical toxicologists founded the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (1989) and served as the first Vice-President and then as the President for 8 years (1994-2001). He was elected as a Permanent Member of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World (TWAS) in 1997. He was a member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 2004 to 2011.

 

His other achievements include co-founder and Director, Medical Toxicology Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 1988 to date,  Ed

itor-in-Chief, Scientific Journal of Birjand University of Medical Sciences 2002 to date, Associate Editor and editorial board member of many national and International medical journals.

His research areas are Clinical Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents, Organophosphorous Pesticide Poisonings. Heavy Metals, Drug Abuse/Overdosage, Epidemiology of Poisonings, Occupatioal and Environmental Toxicology, Natural Toxins including snake and spider bites.

 

Prof. Balali-Mood was awarded several National and International prizes on Teaching, Research and Medical Care including the prizes in medical c

100 theses for MSc, PhD, PharmD, MD and specialities in clinical medicine, mostly on CWA. Mahdi is the author/editor of 29 books/monographs/chapters and 147 articles and 289 short papers and abstracts. His recent books on Basic and Clinical Toxicology of organophosphorus compounds and on Biological Toxins and Bioterrorism were published by Springer in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Mohammad Abdollahi (MA) acquired a PharmD in 1988 from the University of Tehran and then finished a PhD in Toxicology and Pharmacology in 1994 from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. in 2001, MA completed his postdoctoral training in Mechanistic Toxicology in the school of Pharmacy of the University of Toronto. In the interim, he contributed in a key Meta-analysis study in the School of Medicine, University of Toronto. MA has obtained the honor of full professorship of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) since the second half of 2002. He has chaired the Department of Toxicology

and Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, TUMS since 2005.  So far, MA has contributed in authoring more than 600 papers in prestigious journals and authoring 48 book chapters and editing 11 books. MA has been listed among top scientists of ESI/ISI and OIC Member States. According to Google Scholar, current H-index, total citations, and i10 index of MA are 64, ?15000, and 330, respectively. Total citations of MA in the books are more than 1000. MA is the Editor-in-Chief of two TUMS prestigious journals published by Springer BMC and Elsevier. MA has cooperated with some key international organizations such as OPCW (Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) as a Scientific Advisory Board in the Netherlands (since 2012), WHO (World Health Organization) as a Member of Guideline Developing Group for Prevention of Lead Poisoning in Switzerland (since 2011), COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) as a Council Member in the UK (2013-2014), World Library of Toxicology as the Country Correspondent (since 2008), IAS (Islamic-World Academy of Sciences) as a Fellow (since 2007), International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Iran Chapter as a Founder/Board of Directors (since 2013), and Asian Council of Science Editors as the Board of Directors (since 2014). In addition to more than ten prestigious national awards, MA has received the prominent award of IAS-COMSTECH in 2005 in the field of Pharmacology & Toxicology. The main research interests of MA are Mechanistic and Environmental Toxicology, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Pharmacology. MA's contribution to this field is attested by an extensive array of citations in papers and books. MA has uncovered the critical mechanistic connections between the toxicity of chemicals and the etiology of human diseases.