The one-day symposium is Nahid Assemi, Siamack Bagheri, Maziar Mireskandari, and Ali Narvani, and will examine the contribution of Iranians in the field of medicine from the 9th to the 21st century: "From Rhazes and Avicenna to the present day, Iranians have been in the forefront of medical history. This one day symposium aims to look at the contributions and achievements of Iranians to the field of medicine, through presentations by historians, doctors and pioneers from across the globe, providing a comprehensive account of how medicine has evolved over the ages and more recently through the diaspora." The day will include guided tours of the famous Hunterian Anatomy Museum.

1. Iran’s Medical Heritage: Symposium on a Millennium of Contributions
Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) & the British Iranian Medical Association (BIMA)
10.00 Welcome and Introduction by Professor Nigel Hunt
10.05 Dr John Curtis
10.10 Session 1 chaired by Professor Charles Melville, Ms Nahid Assemi
10.15 Medieval Medicine: the Persian Contribution
Professor Peter E Pormann
Director, John Rylands Research Institute
Professor of Classics and Greco-Arabic Studies, University of
Manchester
10.35 Human Anatomy in the Persian/Islamicate Medical Tradition:
Tashrih-e Mansouri
Dr Andrew Newman
Reader in Islamic Studies and Persian, University of Edinburgh
10.55 Discussions
11.00 Session 2 chaired by Professor Charles Melville, Ms Nahid Assemi
11.10 The Medical Modernization in Iran: 19
th
-20
th
century
Dr Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
Lecturer in history, with focus on History of health and medicine
in Iran
University of Southampton
11.30 History of Hospitals
Dr Willem Floor
Independent scholar specialising in the history of Iran in the
Safavid and modern ages.
11.50 Discussions
12.10 Lunch & Museum visits
12.45 Mr Maziar Mireskandari
12.50 Session 3 chaired by Mr A Mosahebi, Mr Ali Narvani
12.55 Medicine during Iran/Iraq war & Medicine in Iran Today
Dr A Ahmadi
Founder, Iranian Orthopaedics Association
President, Arta Sheikh Orthopaedics Foundation
13.15 Restorative Transplantation: A New Frontier
Professor K Azari
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Plastic Surgery, UCLA
13.35 Cochlear Implants
Professor M Kaviani
Professor of ENT Department, Shiraz
13.55 Discussions
14.15 Coffee & Museum visits
14.45 Keynote Speaker: My life as a neurosurgeon
Professor M Samii
Professor of Neurosurgery
President of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI), Otto-von-Guericke-University
15.35 Session 4 chaired by Professor Marjan Jahangiri
15.40 Identifying Cancer Susceptibility Genes through Novel Genomic
Approaches
Professor R Moslehi
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Genetic Epidemiologist, Cancer Research Center, University at
Albany
16.00 Nanotechnology in Tissue Engineering
Professor A Seifalian
Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, UCL
16.20 Stroke, state of the art treatment in 2015.
Dr R Malek
Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology (Neurosurgery) and
Vascular & Interventional Radiology, San Jose
16.40 Discussions
17.00 Closing Remarks by Dr Siamack Bagheri