Majid Samii
| Majid Samii | |
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| Born |
19 June 1937 Tehran, Iran |
| Citizenship |
Iran Germany |
| Nationality | Iran and Germany |
| Fields | Neurosurgery |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
| Notable awards | Rudolf Frey Award (2000) 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) Khwarizmi International Award (2014) |
| Spouse | Mahshid Samii (m. 1961) |
| Children | Amireh and Amir |
Majid Samii (Persian: مجید سمیعی, born 19 June 1937) is a distinguished German-Iranianneurosurgeon and medical scientist.
Professor Majid Samii was born in Tehran, Iran on 19 June 1937. After having completed his high school education in Iran, he moved to Germany, where he started his medical study at the University of Mainz.
He has been the president of the International Society for Neurosurgery and was elected as the founding president of the Congress of International Neurosurgeons (MASCIN) in 2003.
Samii received the "World Physician" award by the north German city of Hannover. 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) at the Otto-von-Guericke-University.
In 2007, he received the "Friendship Award", from the Prime minister of China for his contribution to the medical progress of the country.
In 2014, Samii was named world top neurosurgeon and garnered Golden Neuron Award by World Academy of Neurological Surgery. He had earlier received the 2014 Leibniz Ring Prize in Berlin.
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