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Iran
Danial Roshandel
Danial Roshandel is a consultant Ophthalmologist at Labbafinejad Medical Center, a referral Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran. He studied Medicine at the Golestan University of Medical Sciences and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 2010. Dr. Roshandel has been recognized as an exceptionally talented student during his studies and honoured by the National Elites Foundation for his outstanding educational and research activities. After graduating from medical school, he started Ophthalmology residency at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. In 2014, he graduated as a General Ophthalmologist with National Board Certification and started practicing Ophthalmology. In 2016, he returned to the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences as academic member to practice Ocular Surface Disease at Labbafinejad Medical Center, where he helped establish the Ocular Surface Disease Clinic which provides the most specialized and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic measures for the patients with ocular surface diseases. Along with his clinical practice, Dr. Roshandel has participated in several clinical, experimental and laboratory investigations in Genetics, Immunology, Neurology and Ophthalmology. His research has lead to more than 25 peer-reviewed publications in referred journals. Dr. Roshandel is interested in corneal regeneration using stem cells, and is investigating the clinical outcomes of cultivated autologous limbal and oral mucosal epithelial transplantation for management of unilateral and bilateral limbal stem cell deficiencies. He is also pursuing different methods of management of ocular surface disorders including Stevens Johnson Syndrome, Mucus Membrane Pemphigoid, Ocular Surface Neoplasia, and Corneal Vascularization and Dry Eye Disease.