Iradj Fazel (, also

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as "Īraj Fāżel"; born 24 April 1939) is a prominent

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ian surgeon and academic. He was the president of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences for 19 years, until 2010. In the aftermath of the

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, he wrote a public letter, protesting the way Iranian youth were being treated. Subsequently, he was removed as the president of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences by President Ahmadinejad. Fazel studied Medicine at

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and pursued his studies in the United States. He specialized in

organ transplantation Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be trans ...

. Fazel is a full professor at the medical school of National University of Iran (then

Shahid Beheshti University Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) (), originally founded as the Melli University (National University of Iran) (), is a Public university, public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers programs at Bachelor's, Master's and Ph. ...

). He is a former minister of health and medical education and president of the Iranian Society of Surgeons. Fazel graduated from Tehran Medical School in 1964. He is a diplomate of the

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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.

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