Farrokh Saidi (Persian: فرخ سعیدی) (born November 22, 1929 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian surgeon, academician, former Under-Secretary for Medical Education and Health Services of Iran, and former Dean of Medical School, Pahlavi University School of Medicine (now Shiraz University), Shiraz, Iran. Education Farrokh Saidi finished the elementary school in Berlin, Germany and his high school in Tehran, Iran and later in Montclair, New Jersey in the United States. From 1947 to 1950, he spent his years of undergraduate studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Medical education In 1950, he was admitted to Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and received his medical degree (M.D.) in 1954. He spent a year of internship in Internal Medicine at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. In 1955, he went back to Boston to start his residency in General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and a fellowship in Cardiac Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital by 1960. He spent an additional year of training in Thoracic Surgery at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom in 1961 under supervision of Professor Ronald Belsey. Career After his return to Iran in 1961, he joined Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz as an attending surgeon and became an Associate Professor of Surgery at Pahlavi University School of Medicine in Shiraz where he established a General Surgery Residency Program. He became Chief of Surgery at Saadi and Nemazee Hospitals in Shiraz and Professor of Surgery at Pahlavi University School of Medicine in 1963. Farrokh Saidi was the Dean of Medical School, Pahlavi University School of Medicine (now Shiraz University) during 1968–1969. Again, he returned to Boston to complete a two-year fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He moved to Tehran in 1972 and was Chief of Surgery at Hossein Fatemi Hospital, Rey, and subsequently Chief of Surgery at Bank Melli Hospital, both in Tehran, Iran. In 1985, he joined Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences as a Professor and Chief of Surgery, and established the Thoracic Surgery Fellowship program at Modarres Hospital in Tehran. During 1974–1975 and before the Iranian revolution, Farrokh Saidi served as the Under-Secretary for Medical Education and Health Services of the Minister of Education, Abdol-Hossein Samiy (also Samii). He has been a permanent member of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences since 1990. He has been a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences