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E000071 - Hashemian, Hassan Agha (1915 - 2003)
Title:
Hashemian, Hassan Agha (1915 - 2003)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000071
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2005-09-28

2012-03-22
Description:
Obituary for Hashemian, Hassan Agha (1915 - 2003), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Hashemian, Hassan Agha
Date of Birth:
14 April 1915
Place of Birth:
Kashan, Iran
Date of Death:
3 September 2003
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1941

Hon FRCS 1964

MB BS London 1942

LRCP 1941

FRCS Edinburgh 1945
Details:
Hassan Agha Hashemian was a professor of surgery and head of the department of surgery at the Cancer Institute, Tehran. He was born in Kashan, Iran, on 14 April 1915, the son of Hossein Hashemian, a velvet merchant, and Nagar, a housewife. He was educated at Tehran Boys School, and then received a scholarship from the Shah to study in Europe. He attended the Lycée Francais in Paris and went on to University College London Medical School. He was a house surgeon at St Antony's Hospital, Cheam, and then a resident surgical officer at West Herts. He then moved on to Central Middlesex Hospital, where he was a senior casualty officer, then a surgical registrar in the department of urology and subsequently in the department of neurosurgery. He became a senior surgical registrar in 1948 and was appointed to the senior staff as an assistant surgeon in 1953. In 1956 he was invited to open up a large cancer institute in Tehran, Iran. The institute received many visitors, including Sir Stanford Cade, Sir Brian Windeyer and Sir Francis Avery-Jones. He was a past President of the Iranian National Surgical Society and of the International College of Surgeons. He was a fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Oncological Society. He retired in 2001. He married Marjorie Bell, also a doctor, in 1947 and they had two children - Michael Parviz and Moneer Susan. He died on 3 September 2003.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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