Eye Research Center (ERC)

The Eye Research Center was established in 2002 in order to organize clinical and professional research, play a genuine role in production and acquisition of knowledge, prevent blindness and develop visual sciences. ERC has established a Ph.D. program which is authorized by the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education. The infrastructure is provided by the Epidemiology and Ophthalmology Community.

The Visual Optics has also been established to conduct research in imaging, image analysis, and design of optical models in collaboration with the Department of Medical Physics.

This research center was founded by Dr. Hormoz Shams, Dr. Ali Sadeghi-Tari, Dr. Mohammad-Sadegh Farehvash, Dr. Reza Karkhaneh, and Dr. Alireza Lashay. The board of Trustees consisted of the University Chancellor, University Vice-Chancellor for Research, Dr Hasan Hashemi, Dr Hormoz Shams, & Dr Mohammadreza Mansouri.

The 12 faculty members are fully active in the Center trying to achieve goals in organizing clinical research, embarking on professional research, and playing a genuine role in evidence generation, basic science, knowledge exchange and transfer, and prevention of blindness.

ERC Honors

The ERC has achieved the second rank in the evaluation of Medical Sciences University Dependent Budget (UDB) Research Centers university with more than three years of formal activities in 2006, third rank in the evaluation of Medical Sciences UDB Research Center in 2007, second rank in the evaluation of Medical Sciences UDB Research Center in 2008, first rank in the evaluation of Medical Sciences UDB Research Center in 2009, second rank in the evaluation of Medical Sciences UDB Research Center in 2010.

Some innovations and capacity building indicators of the ERC are as follow: Interaction and collaboration with Student Scientific Research Center in developing research processes and arranging scientific tours. Our residents perform surgery on the artificial or animal eyes before having operation on patients’ eyes.

Dean of the Center

Dr Ali Sadeghi-Tari

Email: tuerc@tums.ac.ir

Tel:  (+98 21) 55 42 10 01-6

Fax: (+98 21) 55 42 10 02

Address: Farabi Hospital, Qazvin Sq., South Kargar Ave., Tehran133364, Iran.

Educational Programs Offered by the ERC

Department	Major	Ph.D.	Specialty	Fellowship	Post-Doc	Short-Term Courses
Ophthalmology Department & Eye Research Center	Ophthalmology	-		-	Varied Subjects	3-month ICO Fellowships
	Ophthalmology (Cornea & Anterior Segment)	-	-		-	-
	Ophthalmology (Glaucoma)	-	-		-	-
	Ophthalmology (Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus)	-	-		-	-
	Ophthalmology (Vitreoretina	-	-		-	-
	Ophthalmic Epidemiology		-	-	Varied Subjects	-

• Admission to Residency in Ophthalmology is subject to School of Medicine policy and regulations on accepting international students.
• Admission to fellowship programs is also subject to School of Medicine policy and regulations on accepting international students, but observership fellowship is streamlined and the applicant should closely coordinate this with a       faculty host at Farabi.
• The ICO-fellowship is funded by International Council of Ophthalmology; you may look up Farabi’s at: http://www.icoph.org/refocusing_education/fellowships/fellowship_host_directory/fellowship_host_detail/106/JABBARVAND-Mahmood-MD.html.
• Ph.D. in Ophthalmic Epidemiology is delivered in collaboration with the School of Public Health (in addition to application at http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/en/page/6054/Admissions, you may contact Dr S-Farzad Mohammadi at   sfmohamm@razi.tums.ac.ir).
• For Post-Doc, you have to contact a specific faculty member (considering their research strength) in addition to applying at http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/en/page/6054/Admissions.
• Project at ERC are jointly provided with Farabi Eye Hospital.

Major	Post-Doc	Training Program
ICO Fellowship (three months)	-
Various subjects		-

Research council member

ERC Faculty Members and their Research Interests

Research Center Program Coordinator

Siros Alinia

eye@tums.ac.ir

Tel: (+98) 93 93 92 90 70

All interested applicants are welcome to apply to TUMS by completing and submitting TUMS online application form in which they need to specify their program of interest and the center offering the program.