Editorial Board
Mahdi Fallah
Scientist German cancer Research Center · Germany
Editorial leadership for Journal of Thyroid Cancer ISSN 2574-4496
Research interests
- Familial Cancers
- Endocrine Cancers
- Cancer Epidemiology Epidemiology Group Leader; International Cancer Research Experience; Drug Study Experience; Development Of Prostate Cancer. Risk Assessment Model (Pcram); Working With Very Large International
- National Cancer Databases [Cancer Registries
- Globocan
- Eucan
- Nordcan
- Ci5
- Fcd (Worlds Largest Family-Cancer Database)
- Etc
Biography
Experiences:
- Group Leader in the Division of Preventive Oncology at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT Heidelberg);
- Head of Epidemiology Research Group in the Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ);
- Scientist and coordinator of Nordic collaboration on familial cancers;
- 5 years clinical practice; 4 years post-doc in epidemiology, Germany;
- 3 years pharmaco-epidemiology post-doc in chronic diseases epidemiology in Finland;
- extensive research experience international settings;
- pooling and analysis of very large international epidemiological datasets (Swedish Family-Cancer Database, world's largest of its kind, including >14.7 million subjects, and various cancer registries, Nordic family-cancer datasets);
- supervising / mentoring / teaching PhD students and post-docs; epidemiological and applied statistical consultant
Highlights: AACR Awards 2015 and 2016;
- Best Article Award;
- several press releases;
- several grants;
- developed familial Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Model (PCRAM) and several methods to deal with ascertainment bias in cancer registry data;
- development and analysis of Nordic Family-Cancer Joint Dataset
- Reviewer of grant application: Swiss Cancer League, Swiss Cancer Research, Switzerland
Editorial Board Member/Reviewer of peer-reviewed journals:
- Annals of Oncology, JAMA Dermatology, International J Cancer, Thyroid, Cancer Research Frontiers, J Thyroid Cancer, Cancer Epidemiol Bomark, Cancer Epidemiol, Hematol Reports, J Pediatric Surgery, etc. (83 Merits in Publons.com; top 7% of all reviewers and top 2% of DKFZ reviewers)
Selected publications
- Risk of familial classical Hodgkin lymphoma by relationship, histology, age, and sex: a joint study from five Nordic countries 2015 cited 49×
- Calculating the Starting Age for Screening in Relatives of Patients With Colorectal Cancer Based on Data From Large Nationwide Data Sets 2020 cited 37×
- Familial melanoma by histology and age: Joint data from five Nordic countries 2014 cited 21×
- Familial colorectal cancer risk in half siblings and siblings: nationwide cohort study 2019 cited 21×
- Familial risk of breast cancer by dynamic, accumulative, and static definitions of family history 2020 cited 18×
- Risk-tailored starting age of breast cancer screening based on women's reproductive profile: A nationwide cohort study 2020 cited 13×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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