Kamran Bagheri Lankarani (; born 1965) is an Iranian physician and politician who was
Minister of Health and Medical Education
The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) has executive responsibility for health and medical education within the Iranian government. The MOHME comprises five departments headed by deputy ministers: Healthcare in Iran, Health, Scienc ...
from 2005 until 2009.
Born in 1965, he finished medical school at
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, and attained an advanced fellowship degree in medicine from the same university. He specializes in gastroenterology.
Baqeri-Lankarani got his doctorate from
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1989. He received post-doctorate certificate in 1992 from the same university.
He served as a head of
Shiraz Namazi Hospital (1993–94), deputy chancellor of Shiraz Medical Sciences
University (1994–1996) and manager of the university's internal medicine department (since 1996).
He then served as a member of the presiding board of Shiraz Medical System Administration (1996–2000),
secretary of Islamic Association of
Fars province physicians and a member of the Islamic Society of Shiraz University Students.
Academic contributions
As of 19 April 2025, Bagheri Lankarani's Google Scholar profile lists 821 publications on a variety of medicine-related topics. One article by Bagheri Lankarani and co-authors, published in ''Environmental Science and Pollution Research'' in 2021, was retracted in 2024, due to "a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references, containing nonstandard phrases or not being in scope of the journal."
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Presidential BioHealth Ministry of Iran
Education ministers of Iran
Living people
1965 births
Front of Islamic Revolution Stability politicians
Shiraz University alumni
Politicians from Tehran
21st-century Iranian politicians
Physicians from Tehran
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