Date: 8/23/2008
TUMSR News: On Physicians’ Day, Dr. Larijani TUMS Chancellor, named the Chair of Infectious Diseases Department and Chair of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Research Center after Dr. Yalda & Dr. Siadati respectively.
On Physicians’ Day, Dr. Larijani, Tehran University of Medical Sciences’ (TUMS) Chancellor, named the Chair of Infectious Diseases Department and Chair of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Research Center after Dr. Alireza Yalda and Dr. Seyed Ahmad Siadati, two of the most famous TUMS faculty members, in a move to treasure their life-long undertakings.
In his speech, Dr. Larijani knew the 7-decade-long scientific movement at TUMS as the cause for turning the university into one of the invaluable foci of medical sciences in the country. He said that “The honor is ours that many elites in the field of medicine come from this university”.
The meeting for commemoration the two professors was held at the National Museum of History of Medicine on Friday evening, August 22, 2008 and it was participated by authorities of the university, the Health Ministry and Iran’s Medical Council.
Physicians’ Day in Iran is held yearly on the birth anniversary of Avicenna, a Persian physician and philosopher (Born in Bukhara, Khorasan, Iran, 981 – 1037) and the author of the Canon of Medicine, a textbook taught for centuries, as late as 18th century (1), in medical universities around the world including Europe.
Avicenna is regarded as the father of early modern medicine, and clinical pharmacology particularly for his introduction of systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology, his discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials, efficacy tests, clinical pharmacology, neuropsychiatry, risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome, and the importance of dietetics and the influence of climate and environment on health. He is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics, and is regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy (2).
References:
1- The Canon of Medicine. Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canon_of_Medicine
Avicenna. Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna
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