Iradj Gandjbaksh

He fitted a pacemaker to French former president Jacques Chirac.

Iradj Gandjbakhch
Iradj Gandjbakhch
Born	(1941-11-06) 6 November 1941 (age 82) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Alma mater	University of Paris
Scientific career
Fields	Cardiac surgery

Gandjbaksh is a surgeon at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where he heads the cardiac surgery department after Christian Cabrol. Gandjbaksh and Cabrol performed the first heart transplant in Europe on 27 April 1968. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 13 November 2001. In 2010, he became president of the National Academy of Surgery. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University Foundation, where he teaches. He also belonged to the National Council of Universities for the medical, dentistry and pharmaceutical disciplines.

• Heart transplants, with Christian Cabrol and Alain Pavie, Médecine/Sciences, Flammarion, 1996.
• Wounds and trauma of the thorax, with Jean-Pierre Ollivier and René Jancovici, Arnette, 1997.
• Pathologies of the aorta, collective, dir. With Jean-Pierre Ollivier, Med-Line, 2004.

• Officer of the Order of Merit^{[citation needed]}
• Knight of the Legion of Honour^{[citation needed]}