İhsan Doğramacı

İhsan Doğramacı was a Turkish pediatrician, educator and philanthropist of Iraqi Turkmen descent, born in Erbil on 3 April 1915 and died on 25 February 2010. As a pediatric physician he became professor of pediatrics in 1955 and founded the child health department at Ankara University Medical School, then the Child Health Institute and Hospital in 1958; these grew into Hacettepe University, officially founded in 1967. He also founded Bilkent University and was the founding president of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey from 1981 to 1992. Internationally he was president of the International Pediatric Association from 1968 to 1977, a member of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1959 to 1985, and a leader in the World Health Organization, which since 1980 has awarded a family health prize in his name. He wrote more than one hundred scientific articles and three books.