Minou Dokht Foadi

bmj;379/oct27_8/o2555/FAF1faMinou Dokht Foadi was born in Tehran, Iran, to Hasan Foadi, a linguist and teacher, and Houvieh (née Nabil-i-Akbar), both refugees from Soviet Turkmenistan. Minou attended medical school in Tehran and was the first woman to graduate with top grades in Iran. This led to a scholarship to pursue medical training abroad, and she moved to the US in 1959. After courses in English and a postgraduate diploma in general medicine, she completed paediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and a fellowship in paediatric haematology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, where she was appointed as clinical assistant professor. In 1965, after the Shah of Iran personally intervened on a US visit to rescind her visa in order for her to return to Iran, Minou instead moved to London, where she initially worked clinically at Great Ormond Street Hospital and as a leukaemia research fellow at the Institute…
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