1. Javad Heyat performed the first open heart surgery in Iran and was Ayatollah Khamenei's personal physician when the latter was President of Iran in the 1980s.
11 Facts About Javad Heyat
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Javad Heyat was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from universities in Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Javad Heyat was born in 1925 in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, and belonged to an aristocratic Iranian Azerbaijani family.
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Javad Heyat attended elementary and secondary school in Tabriz, and subsequently moved to the capital Tehran where he attended medical school.
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Javad Heyat then attended medical school abroad, first in Istanbul and then Paris in order to specialize in cardiology.
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Back in the Iranian capital Tehran, Javad Heyat pursued a remarkable medical career at Hedayat hospital, where he performed the first open heart surgery in Iran.
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Javad Heyat was the author of over 80 articles in Persian and 20 articles in English and French for medical journals.
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In 1983, Javad Heyat briefly moved to the United States in order to participate in the first Conference of Turkic studies at the University of Indiana.
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Javad Heyat was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from universities in Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan: University of Medicine in Istanbul, Medical School of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Turkish Language Academy in Ankara, Academy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Javad Heyat was Ayatollah Khamenei's personal physician when the latter was President of Iran.
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Javad Heyat held a Turkish nationalistic position in his academic writings on history and literature.