Iradj Gandjbaksh

Iradj Gandjbaksh (Persian: ایرج گنج‌بخش, born 6 November 1941, in Tehran) is an Iranian Cardiac surgeon who lives in France. He fitted a pacemaker to French former president Jacques Chirac.

Iradj Gandjbakhch
Iradj Gandjbakhch
Born (1941-11-06) 6 November 1941
Tehran, Iran[1]
NationalityIranian
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Scientific career
FieldsCardiac surgery

Professional career

Gandjbaksh is a surgeon at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where he heads the cardiac surgery department after Christian Cabrol. Gandjbaksh and Cabrol performed the first heart transplant in Europe on 27 April 1968. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 13 November 2001. In 2010, he became president of the National Academy of Surgery. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University Foundation,[2] where he teaches. He also belonged to the National Council of Universities for the medical, dentistry and pharmaceutical disciplines.[3]

Works
  • Heart transplants, with Christian Cabrol and Alain Pavie, Médecine/Sciences, Flammarion, 1996.
  • Wounds and trauma of the thorax, with Jean-Pierre Ollivier and René Jancovici, Arnette, 1997.
  • Pathologies of the aorta, collective, dir. With Jean-Pierre Ollivier, Med-Line, 2004.

Honors

References
  1. "Dr Iradj Gandjbakhch". Academy of Medicine of Islamic republic of Iran (in Persian). Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Birthplace:Tehran
  2. "Missions et gouvernance - Fondation partenariale". fondation.upmc.fr. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. "Décret portant son remplacement". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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