Manushehr Sabetian was a consultant surgeon at the London Welbeck Hospital. He studied medicine at Durham University, qualifying in 1954. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1958, his ChM from Liverpool University in 1962 and the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1967. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Liverpool, then a senior registrar at St Mark's Hospital, London and the Royal Northern Hospital, London. Manushehr Sabetian died on 3 February 2015.