Jimione (Jimmie) Isimeli Samisoni (died April 2007) was a

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an physician and academic who served as Dean of the

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(FSM). He was the husband of politician

Mere Samisoni Adi Mere Tuisalalo Samisoni (28 July 1938 – 11 August 2023) was a Fijian businesswoman and politician, from Lomaloma villageAi Vola Ni Kawa Bula, Tokatoka No.7 on the island of Vanua Balavu in Fiji's Lau archipelago. Samisoni was formerly a me ...

. Samisoni was educated at

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, before attending the then Central Medical School. After receiving a fellowship from the

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, he went on to study at the

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where he graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Medicine. Later he continued post-graduate studies at the

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where he graduated with a Masters of Science degree. Whilst studying for his

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degree, Jimmie Samisoni was also working towards his Doctorate (PhD) which he received in 1973. From the mid to late 1970s, Dr Samisoni worked as a house surgeon in

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. He also worked as a senior lecturer at the

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before returning to Fiji in 1980 where he joined the Fiji School of Medicine. During the year of the first military coup in Fiji (1987), Dr Jimmie Samisoni left Fiji and joined the

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as an assistant clinical professor. Dr Samisoni was appointed the academic dean of the Fiji School of Medicine when he came back to Fiji in 1990. He retired in 1998.

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