Reza Malekzadeh (Persian: رضا ملك زاده) (born 1952, Kazerun, Fars province, Iran) is an Iranian medical scientist and gastroenterologist.
Malekzadeh studied medicine at Shiraz University. He continued his studies to become specialized in Internal Medicine in Shiraz University where he did as well his fellowship in gastroenterology. In 1985, he joined the department of gastroenterology at Free Royal Hospital in London. After his return to Iran, he got a faculty position at Shiraz University and later on at Tehran University of Medical Sciences [1] where he is currently a full professor of internal medicine. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Birmingham, UK.
Reza Malekzadeh was the Minister of Health of Iran's government from 1991-1993. From 2000-2004, Malekzadeh was the secretary of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences [2], and since 2005, the Academy's Vice-President for Research. He is the director of Digestive Disease Research Center [3], and was appointed as the director of Shariati Hospital [4] in 2007. Dr Malekzadeh is also the Deputy-Editor of Archives of Iranian Medicine [5].