Date: 11/4/2010
TUMSPR News: The chancellor for Kyrgyzstan International University, Dr. Asylbek Aidaraliev, Dr. A. Shafaq, the Director of Kabul Medical University Library and Dr. Amer Al-Mardini, the academic adviser to the president of Damascus University met with Dr. Bagher Larijani, the chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on October 25, 2010.
Dr. Asylbek Aidaraliev, the president for Kyrgyzstan International University, Dr. A. Shafaq, the Director for Kabul Medical University's Library and Dr. Amer Al-Mardini, the academic adviser to the president of Damascus University met with Dr. Bagher Larijani, the chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on October 25, 2010. The guests had earlier attended a joint conference by the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) in Tehran.
Welcoming the guests, the chancellor briefly went over the past and present standing of the university in terms of research and education domestically and regionally and indicated the efforts which were underway for achieving a decent international position that best represented the university.
Mr. Alizadeh who was accompanying the group and was a member of the ISC said that the reason behind establishing the database was that the scientific output from non-English speaking world, mainly the Moslem states, were not adequately represented in ISI web of Science or SCOPUS.
Dr. Amer Al-Mardini, the academic advisor to the president of Damascus University said "We hope to start to cooperate with you as I have been the dean of the Pharmacy Faculty at Demascus University and I have been following your research [and research output] at your Faculty of Pharmacy.
Dr. A. Shafaq, the Director of Kabul Medical University IT and Library departments thanked the chancellor for the meeting and said that there had been similar visits by his colleagues with the chancellor and talked about the needs they felt for more help from TUMS as the budget was rather low there and specifically asked the chancellor to help in the establishment of a virtual library there, similar to TUMS'. He later introduced the health services that were run by different ministries, Health and Science, and inquired about the health and educational system in Iran and TUMS and Dr. Larijani said that presently those affairs were run by an integrated ministerial system the positive side of running such issues by unified a ministry.
Dr. Asylbek Aidaraliev, the president for the International University of Kyrgyzstan looking for closer ties with the university asked whether the language at educational and clinical settings was English and the chancellor referred to TUMS International Branch on Kish Island and said the scientific cooperation and exchange programs were welcome especially those covering courses for doctoral and M.Sc. students and left further coordination to the head of International Relations office of the University, Dr. Mahmoud Ghazi-khansari.
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The group later visited TUMS Metabolism and Endocrinology Research Institute and Tehran Heart Center, where they were respectively briefed about the extent of research and the offered public health services by Dr. Taheri and Dr. Haj-ghasemi.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=19969
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