Precise Health Consultants

Clinical Research

Manouchehr Madani Civi is the senior clinical research associate of Precise Health Consultants. Manouchehr is a physician and healthcare researcher with more than 20 years of clinical research experience in the cardiac surgery and cardiology units, in addition to his work with the Stem Cells Therapy Team at the Tehran Heart Centre. Manouchehr has published numerous scholarly articles in such journals as the Current Neurovascular Research and the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience.

Manouchehr continues to hone his expertise in the conduction of systematic reviews, with a specific focus on synthesizing evidence to inform clinical and public policy. He also provides research support to the Child & Family Research Institute (BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre). In addition to his professional experience, he completed a Master of Health Science degree at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health.

He is currently a member of the Centre for Evidence-Based Management, and the Centre for Health Education Scholarship

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Co–Founder

Afshin Azhir is the co-founder of Precise Health Consultants. He brings more than 25 years experience as a physician and medical researcher. After completing his Doctor of Medicine, Afshin worked as a physician for five years and then completed his residency in pediatrics and two subsequent fellowships in pediatric nephrology (Australia) and anatomical pathology (Alberta, Canada). Afshin was an associate professor of pediatrics. Throughout his career, he has been published in a broad range of scholarly journals.

Most recently, Afshin has been working as a research scientist with several consulting companies in the healthcare industry, applying his expertise to systematic reviews and meta-analyses. In addition to his Doctor of Medicine, he holds a Masters of Health Administration from the University of British Columbia and is completing his Doctor of Health Administration at Central Michigan University.

He is currently a member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders and the International Society of Nephrology.