Seyed Mansoor Rayegani
Professor S. Mansoor Rayegani heads the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Research Center at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and is the Director of the Iranian PM&R board. He completed his residency training in PM&R at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, in 1992, obtaining the top grade at the Iranian PM&R board, and became assistant professor of PM&R at Shohada Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 1994. He is one of the founders of Tehran’s PM&R residency training program. Professor Rayegani’s interests include electrodiagnostic medicine, pain, spinal cord injury, neurorehabilitation and medical education. Supervising and coordinating electrodiagnostic medicine, neuromusculoskeletal (NMSK) pain and sono-guided injection, and neurorehabilitation clinics are among his daily professional tasks. He has supervised more than 60 postgraduate residency and fellowship theses and published about 140 indexed medical articles with 2300 citations. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Electrodiagnosis (JPMRE), an Editorial Board member of the Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (JISPRM) and a member of the Education and Publication Committee of the ISPRM. Professor Rayegani is the current president of the Iranian PM&R Society.