Majid Samii

Majid Samii, also spelled Madjid Samii, is an Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist, born in Tehran on 19 June 1937. After finishing high school in Iran he moved to Germany and began his medical studies at the University of Mainz. He later became president of the International Society for Neurosurgery and, in 2003, founding president of MASCIN, the Madjid Samii Congress of International Neurosurgeons. He is president of the International Neuroscience Institute in Hanover and of its China counterpart at Capital University in Beijing, and is a director emeritus of the neurosurgical clinic at Nordstadt Hospital in Hannover. He holds honorary presidencies of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and the German Society of Skull Base Surgery. In 2011 the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies created a medal in his name, awarded to outstanding neurosurgeons every two years, and his honours include the Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China and the Leibniz Ring Prize of Hannover.