TEHRAN — A hospital named after world-class Iranian neurosurgeon Majid Samii was officially opened in Shenzhen, China, on December 18. 

In appreciation of the valuable scientific services of Professor Samii in training hundreds of brain and neurological surgeons in China the 1,000-bed Shenzhen Samii medical mega hospital was named after Samii in 2015 who has been also given the honorary citizenship of the Chinese city of Shenzhen.

As professor Samii himself have explained in a video shared on his Instagram page the hospital will have various specialty clinics and departments as well as a neurology department with 200 beds. 

All the departments’ heads at the newly opened hospital will be handpicked by professor Samii. The hospital will be fully exploited in the near future, Samii said.

It came after Professor Samii received the highest scientific emblem of China dubbed as ‘Chinese Friendship Award’ from the Chinese premier in 2007.

Born in Tehran in 1937 Samii is the president of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) at Otto von Guericke University President of the China INI at Capital University in Beijing.

He is also president of the Neurobionic Foundation, president of the Board of Trustees of AWD Children’s Assistance Foundation, director emeritus of the Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital in Hannover, the honorary president of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), honorary president of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Endowment/Foundation (WFNS), honorary president of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery, and the honorary president of CURAC - German Society of Computer and Robot-Assisted Surgery. 

Samii received the "Physician" award by the north German city of Hanover. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder hailed the then 70-year-old Samii for his medical contribution to neuroscience as head of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI), based in Hanover.

In 2014, Samii was named world top neurosurgeon and garnered Golden Neuron Award by World Academy of Neurological Surgery. He had earlier received the 2014 Leibniz Ring Prize in Berlin.

In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate title by Uskudar University for his valuable global researches and clinical contributions in Neuroscience. 

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