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Nineteenth-century Persian medical literature bears witness to a traditional medicine in transition, including changes prompted by the introduction of Western ideas and practices. Contrary to what has usually been assumed, modernization did not occur through the straightforward replacement of traditional by modern European medicine. Rather, the integration of modern medicine went through a long process that included both the reinterpretation of traditional theories by traditional physicians and the assimilation of modern theories through the prism of traditional medicine.*
History
History of Contemporary Medicine in Iran
- In the Memory of the late Professor Charles Oberling, the First Dean of Faculty of Medicine in Tehran
- Dr. Johan Louis Schlimmer (1819 – 1881): the Eminent Professor of Modern Medicine at Dar al-Fonun School
- Dr. Jacob Eduard Polak (1818 – 1891): the Pioneer of Modern Medicine in Iran
History of Pediatrics in Iran
History of Orthopedics in Iran
History of Pharmaceuticals in Iran
History of Hematology and Oncology in Iran
History of Surgery in Iran
History of physiology and pharmacology in Iran
The Iranian society of Physiology and Pharmacology was founded at a meeting held on Wednesday afternoon May 1, 1968 in the amphitheater of the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Tehran. The invitations to attend the meeting and participate in the organization were sent out by two men: Ebrahim Nematollahi, Professor of Physiology and Nasser Guiti Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Medicine, of the Medical Faculty, University of Tehran. The original Founding members were 34 professor of the Iranian Universities, interested in the various branches of the Physiological and Pharmacological sciences.Landmark discoveries and inventions
- Discovering HbA1c (by Samuel Rahbar)
- Invention of artificial heart (by Toffy Musivand)
- Discovery of spermatagonial stem cells.(by Karim Nayernia)
Iranian medical community out of Iran
Iranian medical community is a significant part of medical community in US and Europe. Prof Majid Samii (president of International Socienty for Neurosurgery) and Prof Ali Asghar Khodadoost (world class ophthalmologists) are only a few examples.
Hospitals in Iran
See: List of hospitals in Iran
Notable figures and pioneers
- Abolhasan Farhoudi (pioneer in clinical immunology)
- Moslem Bahadori (pioneer in Pathology and molecular medicine)
- Ahmad Reza Dehpour (notable pharmacologist)
- Mohammad Reza Zarrindast (notable pharmacologist)
- Minoo Mohraz (Iran's World-class AIDS expert)
- Reza Malekzadeh (notable gastroentrologist)
- Fereydoon Davachi (pioneer in Rheumatology)
- Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh (pioneer in Hematology, oncology and Bone marrow transplantation)
- Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma Founded the Pasteur Institute of Iran to introduce the smallpox vaccine
- Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian Led initiative to erradicate malaria in Iran
- Alireza Yalda (pioneer in Medicine: infectous diseases as well as medical ethics)
- Bahador Alami-Harandi (pioneer in orthopeadics)
- Mohammad-Gholi Shams (pioneer in ophthalmology)
- Majid Samii (notable neurosurgeon)
- Shokrollah Tariqati (pioneer in psychiatry)
- Hormoz Shams (notable ophthalmologist)
- Mohammad Gharib (pioneer in pediatrics)
- Ali Radmehr (pioneer in clinical radiologist)
- Nasser Maleknia (pioneer in clinical biochemistry)
- Hassan Askari Shirazi (pioneer in medical physics)
- Gholam Hossein Rahbari (pioneer in medical physics)
- Hamid Ahmadieh (notable ophthalmologist)
- Gholam Reza Pourmand (notable urologist)
- Behrouz Nikbin (pioneer in immunology of organ trasplantation)
See also
- Iranian science
- History of Pathology in Iran
- List of Wikipedia articles on Iranian schools of Medicine
- List of Medical Schools in Iran
External links
"Contemporary Medicine in Iran"