Farrokh Saidi

Farrokh Saidi was an Iranian surgeon and medical educator, born on 22 November 1929 and died on 2 August 2026. He studied at Cornell University and took his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1954, then trained in general and cardiac surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, with a further year of thoracic surgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol under Ronald Belsey. Returning to Iran in 1961, he joined Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, set up a general surgery residency at Pahlavi University School of Medicine and served as its dean in 1968 and 1969. He later held senior surgical posts in Tehran, was Under-Secretary for Medical Education and Health Services in 1974 and 1975, and founded the Iranian Society for the Study of Esophageal Cancer. His published work concentrated on the surgical treatment of hydatid cyst and esophageal cancer.