Majid Samii (Persian: ???? ??????, born 19 June 1937) is a distinguished Iranian-German neurosurgeon and medical scientist.
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Biography
Professor Majid Samii was born in Tehran, Iran on 19 June 1937. He is of Gilak origin, mentioning that his family are natives of Gilan. He moved back to Rasht, Iran for a short period in order to improve his Gilaki. After having completed his high school education in Iran, he moved to Germany, where he started his medical study at the University of Mainz.
He has been the president of the International Society for Neurosurgery and was elected as the founding president of the Congress of International Neurosurgeons (MASCIN) in 2003.
Samii received the "Physician" award by the north German city of Hanover. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder hailed the 70-year-old Samii for his medical contribution to neuroscience as head of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI), based in Hanover.
He is the president of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) at the Otto-von-Guericke-University.
In 2007, he received the "Friendship Award", from the Prime minister of China for his contribution to the medical progress of the country.
In 2014, Samii was named world top neurosurgeon and garnered Golden Neuron Award by World Academy of Neurological Surgery. He had earlier received the 2014 Leibniz Ring Prize in Berlin.
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Present duties
- President of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) at Otto von Guericke University President of the China INI at Capital University in Beijing
- President of the Neurobionic Foundation
- President of the Board of Trustees of AWD Children's Assistance Foundation
- Director emeritus of the Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital in Hannover
- Honorary President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)
- Honorary President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Endowment/Foundation (WFNS)
- Honorary President of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery
- Honorary President of CURAC - German Society of Computer and Robot-Assisted Surgery
Awards
- 2001: Honorary President of The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
- 2005: Carl Zeiss Honorary Lecture and Visiting Professorship initiated and hosted by the Department of Neurosurgery of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2006: Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame
- World Physician 2007
- 2007: Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China.
- 2014: Leibniz Ring Prize winner.
- 2014: World top neurosurgeon and Golden Neuron Award Winner.
- 2017: Awarded Honorary Doctorate title by Uskudar University for his valuable global researches and clinical contributions in Neuroscience.
Notes
External links
- Curriculum Vitae of Majid Samii - up to 1988
- "Samii's Essentials in Neurosurgery"
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