Biography

Dr. Yalda Shokoohinia is the dean of faculty of Pharmacy and an associate professor of Pharmacognosy in KUMS, Kermanshah, Iran, where she has started her career as an assistant professor in 2011. She took her Pharm D degree in 2005 from Isfahan University of Medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran where she obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy in 2010. She was a visiting scholar of Phytochemistry under supervision of Professor Giovanni Appendino in Eastern University of Piedmont, Novara, Italy in 2008-2009 and a visiting scholar at University of Mississippi, NCNPR, Oxford, MS in 2016.

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Research Interest

Dr. Shokoohinia research areas are phytochemistry, natural product isolation and multidimensional chromatography. She has over 35 papers, numerous abstracts, and 400 citations. She has received many honors such as 1st best Ph.D. Student in the Board Exam of Pharmacognosy (2007); 2nd best Student in the national entrance exam of Ph.D. of Pharmacognosy (2005); several best article awards in international and national conferences, several best teacher, and researcher of KUMS; the best woman researcher of Kermanshah province (2015) and as silver ranked researcher of Iran (2017). Through her research in phytochemistry, she has discovered over 90 pure natural products among them 20 were found to have new structures. Besides, she has been the reviewer of more than 15 peers reviewed journals and the section editor of Journal of Reports in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She has supervised more than 40 theses and has the six-year experience of teaching in pharmacy in 9 different topics. In her professional career, she has been the pharmacist of university and hospital drugstores for more than 10 years; the head of the department of Pharmacognosy & Biotechnology (2013-2015), the dean of continuous medical education of Kermanshah province (2015-2016) and she is currently the youngest member and the only woman specialist of Iran’s national board of Pharmacognosy.