Madjid Samii is a distinguished German-Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist.

Professor Samii was born in Rasht

Rasht

Rasht is a city in and the capital of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 551,161, in 159,983 families.Rasht is the largest city on Iran's Caspian Sea coast. It is a major trade center between Caucasia, Russia and Iran using the port of Bandar-e Anzali...

, Iran and got his professor degree in neurosurgery at the age of 33. He has been the president of the International Society for Neurosurgery and was elected as the founding president for the Congress of International Neurosurgeons (MASCIN) in 2003.
Majid Samii received the "World Physician" award by the north German city of Hanover.
Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor...

 hailed the 70-year-old Samii for his medical contribution to neuroscience as head of the world renowned International Neuroscience Institute (INI), based in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

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You have brought more internationality to the city. People from all over the world are coming to be treated by you," added Schröder in his speech to a high-profile crowd, among them ex-Indonesian president Jusuf Habibie and former German foreign minister Klaus Kinkel

Klaus Kinkel

Klaus Kinkel is a German civil servant, lawyer, and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party . He served as Federal Minister of Justice , Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the government of Helmut Kohl. He was also chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party from 1993...

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Schröder stressed that Samii has not only brought the world to Hanover but has also made the city world-famous.
Deeply touched by the award ceremony, Samii said, "I am only a simple doctor, a great honor was bestowed upon me."
Samii invited Schröder to China in 2008 for laying the foundation of the planned neuroscience clinic. Samii has built a great international neuroscience institute INI in cooperation with the University of Beijing.
In 2007, he received Chinese top award, "Friendship Award", from Prime minister of China for his contribution to the medical progress of the country.

Awards

• 2001: Honorary President of The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
• 2005: Carl Zeiss
  Carl Zeiss
  Carl Zeiss was a German maker of optical instruments commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss Jena . Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses...
  
   Honorary Lecture and Visiting Professorship initiated and hosted by the Department of Neurosurgery of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• World Physician 2007
• 2007: Friendship Award
  Friendship Award (China)
  The Friendship Award is the People's Republic of China's highest award for "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress". The award was first established in 1950s, when it was awarded to experts from the former Soviet Union and East...
  
  of the People's Republic of China