Shahab is currently appointed as Assistant Professor at Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology of UIPS at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. He did his postdoc at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 between 2021-2023, defended his PhD in 鈥楶harmacoepidemiology鈥� at Maastricht 木瓜福利影视 in 2021, finished a master course in 'Vitality and Ageing' at Leiden 木瓜福利影视 in 2016, and graduated in 'General Medicine' from Tehran 木瓜福利影视 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 multi-database studies and signal detection methodologies. Some of the major projects they finished in the past few years are:
- Lot4 Valproate DUS: Impact of EU label changes and revised pregnancy prevention programme for medicinal products containing valproate: utilisation and prescribing trends
- Lot4 Oral retinoids DUS: Impact of EU label changes and revised pregnancy prevention programme for oral retinoid containing medicinal products: utilisation and prescribing trends
- TTS-RiskAware: Impact of EU label changes and regulatory communication on SARS-CoV-2 adenovirus vector vaccines in context of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS): risk awareness and adherence
Shahab is currently working, amongst others, on the projects below:
- Treat-PRYSM: The pursuit of non-invasive treatment for intracranial aneurysms to PRevent aneurYSMal subarachnoid haemorrhage
- U'RE-SPARED: the Usability of REal-world data and Signal detection methodologies to explore Preventive pharmacotherapies Against RhEumatoiD arthritis
- ISPE Updated guidance on database selection for pharmacoepidemiologic studies
- ADEPT: Antiseizure meDication Exposure and Pregnancy and neonaTal outcomes research
- ISPE DQ paper: Guidance and best practices for data quality checking and benchmarking of results in large multi-database pharmacoepidemiologic studies using heterogeneous data sources
- Sapere Aude: Hypothesis-free screening for adverse events: A new approach in drug safety research
- ACESO: A multinational big data Covid-19 epidemiological study on post-infection outcomes
Besides research, he teaches several courses in pharmacoepidemiology, and supervises PhD, master and bachelor students at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. 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 of .