Assistant Professor
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology,
Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Shahab is currently appointed as Assistant Professor at Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology of UIPS at Utrecht University. He did his postdoc at Utrecht University between 2021-2023, defended his PhD in ‘Pharmacoepidemiology’ at Maastricht University in 2021, finished a master course in 'Vitality and Ageing' at Leiden University in 2016, and graduated in 'General Medicine' from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2011.
Shahab has a strong interest in studying drugs utilisation and outcomes using real-world data from electronic healthcare databases, with a particular focus on signal detection methodologies.
Besides research, he teaches several courses in pharmacoepidemiology, and supervises PhD, master and bachelor students at Utrecht University. He is also course coordinator, instructor, and course developer at the Eu2P, the first European training programme in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.
Furthermore, he acts as chair-elect of Databases Special Interest Group (DB SIG) at the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology.