Curriculum vitae

Vestfold Hospital Trust

Medical clinic, renal section

PB 2168

3103 Toensberg, Norway

Fax: 33343993

Mobil 40235935

Curriculum vitae

Background

2001 Resident of Norway since 2001

1985 Danish citizen and resident of Denmark 1985-2001

1964 Born in Iran in 1964

Position: Consultant nephrologist. Department of internal medicine / renal section,

Vestfold Hospital Trust, Toensberg, Norway

Academic qualifications

2009 PhD degree from University of Oslo Norway in clinical epidemiology. Studies on cardiac and renal endpoints in kidney transplant recipients.

2007-09 Research fellows, Oslo University Norway / Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet,

Medical clinic, renal section

2007- Consultant nephrologist. Department of internal medicine / renal section,

Vestfold Hospital Trust, Toensberg, Norway

2007, April Approved specialist in Renal Diseases, Oslo Norway

2005-2007 Resident in nephrology, Department of internal medicine / Renal section, Oslo

University Hospital, Rikshospitalet Oslo (1½ year).

2004, Aug Approved specialist in Internal Medicine, Oslo Norway

2001-04 Resident in nephrology, Department of internal medicine / renal section, Sykehuset i

Vestfold HF, Tønsberg, Norway

2000 -01 Research fellow, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital,

Copenhagen, Denmark. DANREHAB (A cardiac rehabilitation study, open

randomized clinical study in an outpatient hospital setting (1 year).

1999- 00 Resident, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine P, Gentofte County Hospital, Denmark.

1998- 99 Resident, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996- 98 Resident, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark

1995 - 96 Internship, Frederikssund Hospital Denmark (1½ year).

1995, Feb MD. Medical School, University of Copenhagen Denmark

1988 - 95 Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1988 Graduated from High School, Odense, Denmark

Papers

1.  2015: Drechsler, Christiane; Pihlstrøm, Hege; Meinitzer, Andreas; Pilz, Stefan; Tomaschitz, Andreas; Abedini, Sadollah; Fellström, Bengt; Jardine, Alan G.; Wanner, Christoph; März, Winfried; Holdaas, Hallvard.Homoarginine and Clinical Outcomes in Renal Transplant Recipients : Results From the Assessment of Lescol in Renal Transplantation Study.Transplantation2015 s. -
OUS SIV UiO

2.  2015:Pihlstrøm, Hege; Dahle, Dag Olav; Mjøen, Geir; Pilz, Stefan; März, Winfried; Abedini, Sadollah; Holme, Ingar; Fellström, Bengt; Jardine, Alan; Holdaas, Hallvard.Increased Risk of All-Cause Mortality and Renal Graft Loss in Stable Renal Transplant Recipients With Hyperparathyroidism.Transplantation2015 ;Volum 99.(2) s. 351-35

3.  2014: Hege Pihlstrøm, Geir Mjøen, Dag Olav Dahle, Stefan Pilz, Karsten Midtvedt, Winfried März, Sadollah Abedini, Ingar Holme, Bengt Fellström, Alan Jardine, Hallvard Holdaas. Symmetric Dimethylarginine as Predictor of Graft loss and All-Cause Mortality in Renal Transplant Recipients. Transplantation 07/2014.
4.  2014: Pihlstrøm H, Mjøen G, März W, Olav Dahle D, Abedini S, Holme I, Fellström B, Jardine A, Pilz S, Holdaaas H. Neopterin is associated with cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in renal transplant patients. Clin Transplant. 2014 Jan;28(1):111-9. doi: 10.1111/ctr.12285. Epub 2013 Dec 24.

5.  2013: Schjelderup P, Dahle DO, Holdaas H, Mjøen G, Nordby G, Abedini S, Jardine A, Fellström B, Svensson M. Anemia is a predictor of graft loss but not cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in renal transplant recipients: follow-up data from the ALERT study. Clin Transplant. 2013 Sep 2. doi: 10.1111/ctr.12220

6.  2011: Soveri Inga, Abedini Sadollah, Holdaas Hallvard, Jardine Alan, Eriksson Niclas, Fellström Bengt Graft loss risk in renal transplant recipients with metabolic syndrome: subgroup analyses of the ALERT trial. J Nephrol : 10.5301/JN.2011.8450 Published online 28.06.2011.

7.  2011: Midtvedt K, Namtvedt T, Strøm E H , Abedinin S, Rocke JC , Dørje C, Foss S Hagenes M and Hartmann A. single transplanted kidneys from a 90 year old deceased donor perform acceptably at 1 year Scheduled to appear in the June 2011 issue of Transplantation Proceedings.

8.  2011: Dag Olav Dahle, Geir Mjøen, Bjørn O qvist, Hubert Scharnagl, Gisela Weihrauch,Tanja Grammer, Winfried März, Sadollah Abedini, Gudrun E. Norby, Ingar Holme, Bengt Fellström, Alan Jardine and Hallvard Holdaas. Inflammation-associated graft loss in renal transplant recipients. Online published doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfr163

9.  2010: Abedini S, Meinitzer A, Holme I, März W, Weihrauch G, Fellstrøm B, Jardine A and Hallvard Holdaas. Asymmetrical dimethylarginine is associated with renal and cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality in renal transplant recipients. Kidney Int. (2010) 77, 44–50

10.  2009: Soveri I, Abedini S, Holdaas H, Jardine A, Eriksson N, Fellström B. Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk in renal transplant recipients: effects of statin treatment. Clin Transplant 2009: 23: 914-920

11.  2009: Abedini S, Holme I, Marz W et al.: Inflammation in renal transplantation. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 4: 1246–1254, 2009

12.  2009: Norby Gudrun E; Holme Ingar; Fellström Bengt; Jardine Alan; Cole Edward; Abedini Sadollah; Holdaas Hallvard; Effect of fluvastatin on cardiac outcomes in kidney transplant patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a randomized placebo-controlled study. Arthritis and rheumatism2009;60(4):1060-4.

13.  2009: Abedini Sadollah; Holme Ingar; Fellström Bengt; Jardine Alan; Cole Edward; Maes Bart; Holdaas Hallvard;Cerebrovascular events in renal transplant recipients. Transplantation2009;87(1):112-7. Department of Medicine, Renal Section, National Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

14.  2008:Zwisler Ann-Dorthe Olsen; Soja Anne Merete Boas; Rasmussen Søren; Frederiksen Marianne; Abadini Sadollah; Appel Jon; Rasmussen Hanne; Gluud Christian; Iversen Lars; Sigurd Bjarne; Madsen Mette; Fischer-Hansen Jørgen; Hospital-based comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation versus usual care among patients with congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, or high risk of ischemic heart disease: 12-month results of a randomized clinical trial. American heart journal2008;155(6):1106-13.Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Cardiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

15.  2006:Fellström Bengt; Abedini Sadollah; Holdaas Hallvard; Jardine Alan G; Staffler Beatrix; Gimpelewicz Claudio; No detrimental effect on renal function during long-term use of fluvastatin in renal transplant recipients in the Assessment of Lescol in Renal Transplantation (ALERT) study. Clinical transplantation2006;20(6):732-9.Department of Medical Science, Renal Unit, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.

16.  2006:Lindhardt Tommi Bo; Abedini Sadollah; Olesen Rikke Mørch; Haunsø Stig; Gadsbøll Niels. Effects of pharmacological modulation of the ATP-sensitive potassium channels on the development of warm-up angina pectoris. Cardiology2006;105(1):17-21.Department of Cardiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

17.  2004:Sajadieh Ahmad; Nielsen Olav Wendelboe; Rasmussen Verner; Hein Hans Ole; Abedini Sadollah; Hansen Jørgen Fischer. Increased heart rate and reduced heart-rate variability are associated with subclinical inflammation in middle-aged and elderly subjects with no apparent heart disease.
European heart journal2004;25(5):363-70. Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital of Bispebjerg, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, Copenhagen NV 2400, Denmark.

18.  2002:Thorgersen Ebbe Billmann; Øfsti Anne Merete; Nyheim Thomas; Abedini Sadollah. [Acute groin pain and femoral nerve deficit in a warfarin treated patient] Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række2002;122(24):2360-1.Medisinsk avdeling, Sykehuset i Vestfold Tønsberg, 3103 Tønsberg.

19.  1999:Abedini S; Nielsen O W; Sajadieh A; Sigurd B M. [Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in Denmark] Ugeskrift for laeger1999;161(37):5165-8.H:S Bispebjerg Hospital, kardiologisk klinik.

20.  1997:Abedini S; Lester A. [Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae bacteremia after dog bite] Ugeskrift for laeger1997;159(28):4400-1. Frederikssund Sygehus, medicinsk afdeling.

Posters

1.  myTracker poster ASN November 2001.

2.  Sadollah Abedini, Morten Rønning, Helle Hager, Anders Hartmann, Halvard Holdaas. Incidence of Chronic kidney disease in a population referred to a central laboratory for blood analysis. ERA-EDTA Munchen, Tyskland 2010.

3.  Sadollah Abedini, Bengt Fellstrøm, Alan Jardine, Ed Cole, Bart Maes, Hallvard Holdaas. Cerebrovascular Events in Renal Transplant Recipients. American Transplant Congress, Toronto June 3, 2008.

4.  Sajadieh A, Wendelboe O, Abedini S, Olsen AD, Hein HO, Rasmussen V and Fischer Hansen J. Prevalence of and factors related to suspected daily silent ischemia in middle-aged and elderly healthy subjects at high risk of coronary artery disease. Nordic Congress of Cardiology. Stockholm 2001

5.  Hansen B, Sadollah Abedini, Ahmad Sajadieh. The extent of the use of vena cava filters in Scandinavia. Nordic congress of cardiology, Island 1999

Oral presentations

1.  Sadollah Abedini, Alan Jardine, Bengt Fellstrøm and Hallvard Holdaas. The Association between BMI all cause mortality, renal and cardiac endpoints in 2102 renal transplant recipients in the extension Alert study. Coming at American Transplant Congress, Boston 30. May 2009

2.  Sadollah Abedini, Alan Jardine, Bengt Fellstrøm, Gisela Weihrauch, Winfried März, and Hallvard Holdaas, on behalf of the ALERT working group. Symmetric Dimethylarginine (SDMA) is marker for graft function and is associated with cardiac events in renal transplant recipients (RTR). (Abstract) World Congress of Nephrology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 21-25 April 2007

3.  Sadollah Abedini, Bengt Fellström, Hallvard Holdaas, Alan Jardine, Beatrix Staffler and Claudio Gimpelewicz, on behalf of the ALERT study group. Asymmetric Dimethylarginine (ADMA) predicts progression to graft failure and major cardiac events in renal transplant recipients. ASN Renal Week (American society of Nephrology) 14. Nov-19 Nov, San Diego USA.

4.  Abedini S, Midtvedt M, Leivstad T, Holdaas H, Eighteen hundred and eighty consecutive living donors from single centre with follow-up time to 41 yeas. ASN Renal Week (American society of Nephrology) 14. Nov-19 Nov, San Diego USA.

5.  Abedini S, Dyrbekk D. EPO- antibodies and PRCA. Presentation at Norwegian renal association annual meeting. Toensberg may 2003, Norway

6.  Abedini S & Nicolaisen T. Chronic compartment syndrome in m. Gastrocnemius. Case presentation, Danish sport association annual meeting. Denmark, Viborg Nov. 1995.

7.  Nielsen P E & Abedini S. Effect of abstaining from smoking after acute myocardial infarction as secondary prevention. Review of literature. Danish society of cardiology. Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet 12. Dec. 96.

Participation in clinical studies an investigator

1.  Investigator of Altitude study

2.  Investigator of myTracker study

3.  Investigator of Certain study

4.  Investigator for AURORA Study

5.  Investigator for EPO-IMU-30, Prospectiv international multimember study in PRCA due to EPO in ESRD patients on haemodialysis

6.  Co-investigator for ASSENT-II study (the international multicoated thrombolysis study). Hvidovre Hospital 1996-98, DK

7.  Co-investigator for March study (Pfizer, study on angina pectoris and amlodipin). Cardiologic Dep. Hvidovre Hospital 1996-98, Denmark

Memberships

·  European renal association

·  American society of nephrology

·  Norwegian society of nephrology

·  Norwegian society of internal medicine

Other academic activities
Reviewer: Stroke journal, American Heart Association journal, Journal of Transplantation.
Sadollah Abedini MD PhD

3th June 2015