Kamran Bagheri Lankarani

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Kamran Bagheri Lankarani M.D., is Iran's Minister of Health and Medical Education.

Born in 1965, he finished medical school at Iran University of Medical Sciences, and attained an advanced fellowship degree in Medicine from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. He specializes in diseases of the digestive tract.

Baqeri-Lankarani got his doctorate from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1989. He received post-doctorate certificate in 1992 from the same university. He served as head of Shiraz Namazi Hospital (1993-94), deputy chancellor of Shiraz Medical Sciences University (1994-1996) and manager of the university's domestic group (since 1996). He then served as a member of the presiding board of Shiraz Medical System Administration (1996-2000), secretary of Islamic Association of Fars province physicians and a member of the Islamic Society of Shiraz University Students.^[1]

He is the founder and editor of Iran's first Journal of Medical electronics.