| Iradj Gandjbakhch | |
| Birth Date: | 6 November 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran[1] |
| Nationality: | Iranian |
| Fields: | Cardiac surgery |
| Alma Mater: | University of Paris |
Iradj Gandjbaksh (Persian: ایرج گنجبخش, born 6 November 1941, in Tehran) is an Iranian Cardiac surgeon who lives in France. He fitted a pacemaker to French former president Jacques Chirac.
Gandjbaksh is a surgeon at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where he heads the cardiac surgery department after Christian Cabrol. Gandjbaksh and Cabrol performed the first heart transplant in Europe on 27 April 1968. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 13 November 2001. In 2010, he became president of the National Academy of Surgery. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University Foundation,[2] where he teaches. He also belonged to the National Council of Universities for the medical, dentistry and pharmaceutical disciplines.[3]