Iradj Fazel

Iradj Fazel
Iradj Fazel
Minister of Health
	In office; 29 August 1989 – 13 January 1991
President	Ali Akbar Rafsanjani
Preceded by	Alireza Marandi
Succeeded by	Reza Malekzadeh
Minister of Science
	In office; 20 August 1984 – 28 October 1985
President	Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Farhadi
Personal details
Born	1939; Ardestan, Iran

Iradj Fazel (Persian: ایرج فاضل, also romanized as "Īraj Fāżel"; born 24 April 1939) is a prominent Iranian surgeon and academic. He was the president of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences for 19 years, until 2010. In the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian presidential election, he wrote a public letter, protesting the way Iranian youth were being treated.^[1] Subsequently, he was removed as the president of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences by President Ahmadinejad.

Fazel studied Medicine at University of Tehran and pursued his studies in the United States. He specialized in organ transplantation.^[2]

Fazel is a full professor at the medical school of National University of Iran (then Shahid Beheshti University). He is a former minister of health and medical education and president of the Iranian Society of Surgeons.^[3]

Fazel graduated from Tehran Medical School in 1964. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and professor of surgery at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran. He is a founding member of Iranian Association of Surgeons and its current president, and president of the Iranian Society for Organ Transplantation. He served as the minister of Higher Education in 1985 and the minister of Health and Medical Education in 1989. He also served two terms as the president of Iran Medical Council in 1991-1996 and 2017-2019.

Representative publications

Malakoutian, T; Hakemi, MS; Nassiri, AA; Rambod, M; Haghighi, AN; Broumand, B; Fazel, I (2007). "Socioeconomic status of Iranian living unrelated kidney donors: a multicenter study". Transplantation Proceedings. 39 (4): 824–5. doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.04.018. PMID 17524823.
Fazel, I; Pourshams, A; Merat, S; Hemayati, R; Sotoudeh, M; Malekzadeh, R (2007). "Modified jejunoileal bypass surgery with biliary diversion for morbid obesity and changes in liver histology during follow-up". Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 11 (8): 1033–8. doi:10.1007/s11605-007-0184-1. PMID 17514410. S2CID 23473126.

References

^ Iradj Fazel. "نامه دکتر ایرج فاضل، وزیر سابق فرهنگ و آموزش عالی و وزیر اسبق بهداشت: از بی‌ادبی‌ای كه در حق مردم به‌ویژه جوانان رشید و آگاه روا داشته‌اید، پوزش بخواهید" [Dr. Iraj Fazel, former Minister of Culture and Higher Education and former Minister of Health: Informing the rude Rashid that the people, especially the young people have had a valid request] (in Persian). Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
^ "Members of SCCR - Iraj Fazel". Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2009.
^ "دکتر ایرج فاضل، رئیس جامعه جراحان ایران، اعلام کرد: تبلیغ در رشته پزشکی جرم محسوب می‌شود" [Dr. Iradj Fazel said the head of the Iranian Association of Surgeons: Advertising in medicine is a crime] (in Persian). Magiran. 21 April 2006.

[1] Iradj Fazel. "نامه دکتر ایرج فاضل، وزیر سابق فرهنگ و آموزش عالی و وزیر اسبق بهداشت: از بی‌ادبی‌ای كه در حق مردم به‌ویژه جوانان رشید و آگاه روا داشته‌اید، پوزش بخواهید" [Dr. Iraj Fazel, former Minister of Culture and Higher Education and former Minister of Health: Informing the rude Rashid that the people, especially the young people have had a valid request] (in Persian). Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

[2] "Members of SCCR - Iraj Fazel". Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2009.

[3] "دکتر ایرج فاضل، رئیس جامعه جراحان ایران، اعلام کرد: تبلیغ در رشته پزشکی جرم محسوب می‌شود" [Dr. Iradj Fazel said the head of the Iranian Association of Surgeons: Advertising in medicine is a crime] (in Persian). Magiran. 21 April 2006.

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