Majid Samii Explained

Majid Samii
Nationality:	Iranian
Birth Date:	19 June 1937
Birth Place:	Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Alma Mater:	University of Mainz
Fields:	Neurosurgery
Workplaces:	International Neuroscience Institute
Prizes:	Rudolf Frey Award (2000)^[1] Paul C. Bucy Award (2003) Avicenna Award (2006) INC Award (2006) Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (2006) Leibniz-Ring-Hannover Award (2013) WIPO Award (World Intellectual Property Organization) (2014) Golden Neuron Award (2014) Kharazmi International Award (2014)
Spouse:	Mahshid Samii (m. 1961)^[2]
Children:	2

Majid Samii (Persian: مجید سمیعی, born 19 June 1937^[3]) is an Iranian^{[4] [5]} neurosurgeon and medical scientist.^[6]

Biography

Samii was born in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran on 19 June 1937. After having completed his high school education in Iran, he moved to Germany, where he started his medical studies at the University of Mainz.^[7]

He has been the president of the International Society for Neurosurgery and was elected as the founding president of MASCIN – "Madjid Samii Congress of International Neurosurgeons" in 2003.^[8]

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).^[9]

In 2007, he received the "Friendship Award", from the Prime minister of China for his contribution to the medical progress of the country.^[10]

He had earlier received the 2014 Leibniz Ring Prize in Berlin.

In 2011, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies coined a medal of honor bearing Samii's name which would be given to outstanding neurosurgeons every two years.^[11] The first awardee of this medal was Prof. Maurice Choux from France.^[12]

In recent years, he has supported some Iranian regime members who have been accused of killing many political activists in the 1980s. He accepted Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Chief Justice of Iran, and Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, head of the disciplinary court of judges, in his private clinic in Hanover.

Present duties^[13]

• 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^[14]
• 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^[15]
• 2006: Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame
• World Physician 2007
• 2008: Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China.
• 2010: Neurosurgical Society of America Medal Recipient.
• 2013: Prize winner.
• 2013: Neurosurgeon of the Year: Elected by the World Neurosurgery journal.^[16]
• 2014: World top neurosurgeon and Golden Neuron Award Winner.^[17]
• 2017: Awarded Honorary Doctorate title by Uskudar University for his valuable global researches and clinical contributions in Neuroscience.^[18]

External links

• • Curriculum Vitae of Majid Samii - up to 1988
• "Samii's Essentials in Neurosurgery"
• www.radiozamaneh.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: جوایز، مدالها و افتخارات. www.professormadjidsamii.com.
2. Web site: عکس‌های خانوادگی و خصوصی پروفسور سمیعی در کنار همسر و دو فرزندش. 9 October 2016.
3. Web site: Biography. Professor Madjid Samii - official website. 27 January 2016. Professor Madjid Samii was born in 19 June 1937 (...).
4. Web site: Complete CV - Professor Madjid Samii. 27 January 2016. Nationality: Iranian and German.
5. News: Professor Majid Samii named world top neurosurgeon. 26 January 2016. Payvand. Press TV. 10 December 2014. The 70-year-old scientist Professor Samii is known as Iranian-German neurosurgeon that has been the president of the International Society for Neurosurgery..
6. Web site: Iran starts building Mideast largest oncology center in Rasht. payvand.com.
7. Web site: Biography. Professor Madjid Samii - official website. 27 January 2016.
8. Web site: EMN e.V. - News. 2007-11-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20120209110251/http://www.emn-neurotrauma.de/news.htm. 2012-02-09. dead.
9. Web site: Home - INI Hannover EN. www.ini-hannover.de. en. 2018-01-13.
10. Web site: China to Honor prominent Iranian Neurosurgeon. 2007-11-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20090328124121/http://www.theniki.net/newsdetail-en-31.html. 2009-03-28. dead.
11. Web site: Medal of Honor.
12. Web site: maurice choux.
13. Web site: MASSIN. madjidsamiisociety.org. 2013-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20160929211509/http://www.madjidsamiisociety.org/cv.php. 2016-09-29. dead.
14. http://www.wfns.org/pages/wfns_honorary_presidents/19.php World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, List of Honorary Presidents
15. Web site: Volker Seifert: Description of the Carl Zeiss Honorary Lecture and Visiting Professorship, in: Department of Neurosurgery of the Goethe University Frankfurt, September 2007, retrieved 30 September 2009.
16. 2013. 80. 472. 24296002. Ramina. R.. Madjid Samii – Neurosurgeon of the year. World Neurosurgery. 5. 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.11.056.
17. Web site: Golden Neuron Award Winners. Burak YILDIRIM. worldacademyns.org. 2014-10-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20170801051228/http://worldacademyns.org/default.aspx?sid=10. 2017-08-01. dead.
18. Web site: Üsküdar University's Honorary Doctorate Ceremony to World-Famous Neurosurgeon Prof. Madjid Samii. ÜSKÜDAR. ÜNİVERSİTESİ.