Majid Samii

Madjid Samii (Persian مجید سمیعی; born June 19, 1937 in Rasht / Iran ) is a German -Iranian neurosurgeon.

• 3.1 honorary doctorates, honorary and visiting professorships
• 3.2 Awards
• 3.3 Name Foundation

Life

Career

Samii studied medicine from 1957 to 1963 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. This study was fully funded by an Iranian funding. In the years 1958 to 1962 he also studied at the University of Mainz in parallel as a second study zoology and botany. He completed his studies with medical state examination in 1963, In 1964 he received his doctorate.

From 1965 Samii was a research assistant at the Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital of Mainz and received the recognition in 1970 as a specialist in neurosurgery. There followed appointments for the first senior physician and deputy director of the clinic. That same year saw his Habilitation in neurosurgery. Also In 1970, Samii a school for microsurgery, in which he taught his 1967 developed microscopic surgical procedures. 1971 appointed to Samii adjunct professor. 1974 saw the appointment Samiis the Scientific Council and a professor at a university.

In 1977 he became director of the Department of Neurosurgery in the North City Hospital in Hanover. In 1986, he took over the chair of neurosurgery at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, 1988, at the Hannover Medical School ( MHH). Since 2003 he has directed the he founded International Neuroscience Institute in Hanover, a research institute and clinic for neurosurgery.

It combines a friendship with the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD), who accompanied him to the founding of the Samii Foundation.

Services

Samii has developed in the 1960s imaging techniques, with the aid of operations could be made much safer on the brain. He was the first surgical microscopes introduced in neurosurgery in 1967 in Germany, whereby operations of nerves and vessels in the brain were gewebsschonender possible.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he explored the syringomyelia and other diseases of the spinal cord.

To date, he has enabled many previously totally deaf patients through the use of a device connected to the nerve cells in the brain stem microchips listening again. Currently Samii researching surgical procedures for curing paraplegics.

In collaboration with Peter- Michael Zink 1992, he developed the zinc - Samii screw for spine.

Samii is married and father of two children.

International Neuroscience Institute (INI )

The foundation stone of the building is reminiscent of a brain on the grounds of the Medical Park took place on 1 December 1998. The DM 140 million privately funded project costing should be completed at the EXPO 2000 and the Land of Lower Saxony by a guarantee in the amount of 83.2 million DM or according to other sources of support 104 million DM. Partner of the company are among others the Siemens Group, the private clinic chain Asklepios, and a banking consortium of North German Landesbank and Sparkassen. In the absence of the prospect of a commercial operation the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group demanded in February 2002, the due date of the State guarantee. After the 2009 parliamentary elections, the INI found in the course of Islamist terror threats from Bekkay Harrach attention in the press. The threats relate probably to 2005 was treatment of the Uzbek Minister Sakir Almatov who was accused by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, have systematically operated torture in prisons and dejected in May 2005 in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan revolt bloody.

Honors and Awards

Samii is the honorary president of many societies such as the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and patron of the German Syringomyelia and Chiari Malformation Association

Honorary Doctorate, honorary and visiting professorships

Awards

Name Foundation

• MASCIN - Madjid Samii Congress of International Neurosurgeons, association of students, friends and companions by Madjid Samii
• 2009: Designation of the University Hospital in Persian by Madjid Samii Rasht
• 2011: Foundation of Madjid Samii - Medal by the World Organization of the neurosurgeon. The medal should appreciate every two years worldwide outstanding achievements in the field of neurosurgery and is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Publications

• Surgery in and around the Brain Stem and the Third Ventricle. Anatomy. Pathology. Neurophysiology. Diagnosis. Treatment: Anatomy, Pathology, Neurophysiology, Diagnosis, Treatment. 1986, ISBN 3-540-16581-9
• Peripheral Nerve Lesions. In 1990. ISBN 3-540-52432-0
• Surgery of the Sellar Region and Paranasal Sinuses. 1991, ISBN 3-540-53697-3
• Approaches to the clivus. Approaches to No Man's Land. 1992, ISBN 3-540-54015-6
• Skull Base Surgery. Anatomy, Diagnosis and Treatment. Karger Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-8055-5967-4

• With J. Brehaye Traumatology of the Skull Base. 1983, ISBN 3-540-12528-0
• With E. Schindler and L. Diethelm The tumors of the pineal region. 1985, ISBN 3-540-15761-1
• With W. Draf and J. Lang Surgery of the Skull Base. An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1989, ISBN 3-540-18448-1
• With Ammirati M. and G. Walter Surgery of Skull Base Meningiomas. 1992, ISBN 3-540-54016-4
• With A. Ernst and R. Marchbanks Intracranial and Intralabyrinthine fluid. Basic Aspects and Clinical Applications 1996, ISBN 3-540-60979-2
• With J. Klekamp Surgery of spinal tumors 2007, ISBN 3-540-44714-8