Fereidoun Azizi, M.D.
Director, Endocrine Research Center, SBUMS
Professor of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
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May 2, 1942 Tehran, Iran
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Medical Education: |
●Tehran University, School of Medicine Tehran, Iran
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1959-1966 |
Internship: |
●Kansas City General Hospital and Flushing Hospital |
1968-1969 |
Residency: |
●Internal Medicine, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Tufts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts |
1969-1971 |
Fellowship: |
●Fellow in Endocrinology & Metabolism St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Tufts medical School, Boston, Massachusetts |
1971-1974 |
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Certified: |
●Iranian Medical Council License ●Educational Council for Foreign Graduates ●Massachusetts State License ●American Board of Internal Medicine ●American Board of Endocrinology and Metabolism ●American Board of Nuclear Medicine |
1966 1967 1973 1972 1973 1974 |
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Academic Positions: |
●Instructor in Medicine, Tufts Medical School ●Assistant Professor in Medicine, Tufts Medical School ●Member, Endocrine-Metabolic Curriculum Committee, Tufts Medical School ●Associate Professor of Medicine Shahid Beheshti University, School of Medicine ●Professor of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University, School of Medicine |
1973-1974 1974 to 1979 1976 to 1979
1979 to 1984
1985 to present |
Teaching Activities: |
●Physical Diagnosis Course Tufts Medical School ●Endocrine Course Tufts Medical School ●Ward Attending Visitis St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Tufts Medical School ●Endocrine Physical Course Endocrine Pathophysiology Course Endocrine Diagnosis and Treatment Shahid Beheshti University ●Ward Attending Visits Taleghani Medical Center Shahid Beheshti University |
1970-1975
1972 to 1979
1973 to 1979
1979 to present
1979 to present |
Hospital Positions: |
● Junior Member, Division of Endocrinology St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Boston, MA ● Chief, Endocrinology Division St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Boston, MA ● Consultant in Endocrinology: Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, MA Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA Quigley Memorial Hospital, Chelsea, MA ● Director of Medicine, Taleghani Medical Center Shahid Beheshti University ● Director of Endocrinology and Endocrine Research Laboratories Taleghani Medical Center Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
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1974-1975
1975 to 1979
1974 to 1979
1979-1984
1979 to present |
Official Positions:
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● Executive Director Taleghani Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University ● Dean, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University ● Chanceller, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences ● Member, Council for Development of Universities ● Member, Council for Community Oriented Medical Education ● Director Medical Group, Iran Univ. Press ●Member and Head of Medical Group, Supreme Council for Educational Programming, IRI ● Director, Center for Scientific Research on Chemical Victims ● Member, Council of Scientific Research of Islamic Republic of Iran ● Director, Medical Commission, Council of Scientific Research of IRI ● Advisor to Minister of Health ● President, Iranian College of Internal Medicine ● Editor, Journal of the Faculty of Medicine, SBUMS ● Member, Academic Council, Gulf Medical college, UAE ● ICCIDD Regional Coordinator for Middle East & North Africa ● Member of Editorial Board, Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism ● Member, Iranian Board of Internal Medicine ● Member and Head, Iranian Board of Endocrinology ● Member National Council for Prevention of Iodine Deficiency Disorders ● President, Iranian Endocrine Society ● Director, Endocrine Research Center, SBUMS ● Short term consultant and advisor, WHO-EMRO ● Member, National Committee fol Diabetes ● Member, ICCIDD Board (International Council for Control of Iodine Dificiency disorders) ● Reviewer for more than 30 International Medical Journals ● Chairman, Iranian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism ● Member, International Advisory Panel, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal ● Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism ● Director, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences ● Vice-President of Research, Iranian Academy of Sciences |
1979-1984
1984-1986 1986-1991 1986-1997 1988-1997 1984-1990 1988-1992
1989-1992 1989-1992
1989-1992
1993-1997 1989-2002 1984-2006 2001-2010 2002-2010 2008 -2011 1980-2012 1980 to present 1988 to present
1990 to present 1981 to present 1990 to present 1996 to present
1997 to present 1998 to present 1999 to present 2001 to present
2001 to present
2002 to present 2008 to present 2009 to present |
Successes in academic or Health related Matters: |
● Reforme of medical education in I.R. Iran ● Pioneering and upgrading research activities in I.R. Iran ● Initiating subspecialty programs of Endocrinoloy and Metabolism in I.R. Iran ● Key designer and applied health research for elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in I.R. Iran ● Pioneering in applied research for recognition and control of non- communicable disorders in I.R. Iran |
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Honors and Awards: |
● Distinguished Professor, Award given by the president of I.R. Iran ● Research Excellence, Award given by the president of I.R. Iran ● Kharazmi Excellence, Award given by the President of I.R. Iran ● Distinghished Research Center, Award given by the President of I.R Iran ● Distinghished Researcher, Award given by the chancellor of SBUMS ● State of Kuwait Prize for excellence in diabetes in Eastern Mediterranean Region ● Excellence in 30 years “health promotion” Award given by the President of I.Ri Iran ● Nagataki Prize, Asia-Oceania Congress of Endocrinology ● Distinguished Research, selected by ISC ● Distinguished Sicientist of the Year, selected by Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences ● Distinguished Sicientist of Islamic Countries by ISC ● Distinguished Sicientist of the Year, selected by Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences ● Distinguished Sicientist of Islamic Countries by ISC ● Allameh Tabatabai price ● Razi festival, distinguished research
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1992 1994 1997
2002
2001 & 2003
2007
2008 2009 2009
2011 2008
2011
2014 2012 2016 |
Short CV
Born in 1942, in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, Fereidoun Azizi obtained his MD from Tehran University, School of Medicine in 1966, Dr. Azizi then completed his internal medicine speciality, endocrinology and methabolism subspeciality and nuclear medicine speciality from Tufts University, School of Medicine, Boston, USA and obtained three American Boards of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Nuclear Medicine in 1972, 1973 and 1974, respectively. He was appointed assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University, and Chief of Endocrinology and acting-chief of Nuclear Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of Boston, Tufts Medical School from 1974 until 1979, when he returned to Iran. He began his affilation with Beheshti University, and has since served as associate professor in 1979 and as professor of medicine and endocrinology since 1985. His appointements have been Dean of the medical school, Chancellor of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Head of the medical group of Supreme Council for Educational Programming and Director of Medical Commission of Council for Scientific Research in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has served as President of Iranian College of Internal Medicine and is currently the president of the Iran Endocrine Society and Scientific Vice-President of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor Azizi’s many research contributions have been in various fields of endocrinology and metabolism, in particular the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. He began his work with Professor L.E. Braverman in Boston and continued his interest in thyroid pathophysiology in Iran. He focused many of his research projects in 80’s in iodine deficiency in Iran, presented the results to the Minister of Health of Iran in 1988 and initiated the first national IDD survey, which led to the formation of National Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Iran in 1989; as the head of this council, he has been working with all related officials of the government for monitoring of IDD programs, in order to ensure sustained elimination of iodine deficiency in the last 20 years in Iran.
Professot Azizi was the Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa of Internaltional Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and served as consultant and advisor to WHO and UNICEF on multiple occasions. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Professor Azizi has published 685 peer reviewed international paper and 600 scientific papers in Iranian medical Journals and has contributed chapters to many scientific books. He is an invited reviewer for more than 20 scientific medical journals and 30 full text or chapters in scientific books. He is an invited reviewer for more than 26 scientific medical journals. He has received many awards including five awards from presidents of I.R. Iran for “Distinguished Professor”, “Research Excellence”, “Kharazmi Festival”, “Distinguished Research Center”and “Health Promition” in 1992, 1994, 1997, 2002 and 2008; State of Kwait Prize for excellence in diabetes in Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2007 and Nagataki Prize from Asia-Oceania Congress of Endocrinology in 2009. He was selected, as Distinguished Scienctist of the Year by Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011. Professor Azizi has been announced as “the most prominent scientist of the Islamic World by ISC in 2009, 2011 and 2013. He received Allameh Tabatabai Prize from the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2012.
Professor Azizi has been the Leading Professor and Director of Endocrine Division at Taleghani Medical center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences since 1989 and Director of Endocrine Research Center since 1994. He has had a large endocrine practice since 1979.
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