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188 Urology Journal   Vol 3   No 3   Summer 2006

OBITUARY
Professor Parviz Jabalameli

It is with great sadness that Urology Journal announces professor 

Jabalalemi’s passing after years of  struggle with cancer, in July 2006, at 

the age of  62 years. He will be forever remembered by his colleagues 

not only as a great physician, but also as a brilliant teacher in clinic, 

university, and life.

He was born in 1944, in the town of  Shahroud, Iran. In 1973, he 

graduated from Tehran University of  Medical Sciences and decided 

to specialize in dermatology, but after six months of  studying that, 

he shifted to urology and turned out to be one of  professor Alaedin 

Manouchehri’s best residents. Then, he could join the Department of  

Urology in Sina Hospital and soon thereafter was appointed to the 

Chair in Urology in 1980. 

The Iran-Iraq war began in 1980 and he went to the war-torn cities 

and spent about 2 years treating the wounded. After returning to 

Tehran, he was elected as the president of  Sina Hospital in 1983. 

Dr Jabalameli was entitled the Associate Professor of  Urology in 

1987 and 1 year later, he was appointed as the Dean of  the Medical 

Faculty of  Tehran University of  Medical Sciences. He never stopped 

learning; he attended advanced courses on urological oncology, kidney 

transplantation, and endourology at the Cleveland Clinic, Pittsburgh Medical Faculty of  Pennsylvania University, 

and Claude Bernard University. 

Thanks to his efforts, the Kidney Transplantation Department of  Imam Khomeini was established in 1988 and 

the first fellowship program of  urological oncology was started in 1996. Also, publishing several books and 

papers and training many current famous urologists in Iran were the outcomes of  his fruitful scientific activities. 

Professor Jabalameli was considered one of  the most eminent surgeons to whom urology, young a specialty as it 

is in Iran, is greatly indebted. He was the Section Editor of  Urological Oncology in the Urology Journal. We, in the 

editorial team are greatly sorry to lose him. We extend our deepest condolences to his bereaved family and the 

urologists’ society.