ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat diseases) was started as a lesson in the 5th year of the foundation of the School of Medicine in 1928. After more than a decade, a university hospital was organized to have specific focus on this field by changing the Women’s Hospital to Amir Alam Hospital (a specific ENT hospital) in 1943. After that, in 1949, ENT teaching activities upgraded to a teaching unit as a part of total 38 units of the medical school in Tehran University and by growing the science of otolaryngology and progression of the surgical sciences to subspecialties, ENT unit had been changed to ENT department in 1970, and its activities distributed in 4 hospitals (Amir Alam, Pahlavi [that changed later to Imam Khomeini], Farabi, Razi). After several years, ENT educational system was organized in Amir Alam Hospital and Valiasr Hospital (as a part of Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex). While the pediatric otolaryngology emerged as a new subspecialty in the world, a pediatric ENT ward started its activities in Children’s Medical Center as a subunit of the Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.
29 attending physicians in various levels and specialties are working in this department which are distributed in three mentioned university hospitals. Organizing the international congresses and educational and specifically hands-on courses (such as Temporal bone dissection course) and participation in the international congresses and workshops as invited speakers are the main international activities.
All undergraduate medical students of the university have one-month educational program at the ENT department before the internship and two weeks in the internship period. In addition, 44 postgraduate students are currently studying at the level of ENT specialty (which 2 of them are international students) and 7 have practice as fellowships in various subspecialties. Moreover, there is a six-month hands-on course of facial plastic surgery that accepts two participants yearly.
Faculty Members and Research Interests
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Dr. Kayvan Aghazadeh: Laryngology, Head & Neck
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Dr. Amin Amali: Rhinology, Facial Plastic, Sleep Medicine
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Dr. Shahin Bastaninejad: Rhinology, Facial Plastic
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Dr. Pedram Borghei: Otology, Sleep Medicine
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Dr. Sasan Dabiri: Otology
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Dr. Payman Dabirmoghaddam: Laryngology
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Dr. Hamed Emami: Otology
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Dr. Reza Erfanian: Sleep Medicine
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Dr. Rayhaneh Heidari: Sleep Medicine
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Dr. Mehrdad Jafari: Head & Neck, Pediatrics
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Dr. Alireza Karimi Yazdi: Otology
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Dr. Ebrahim Karimi: Laryngology, Head & Neck
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Dr. Mohammad Taghi Khorsandi: Otology, Head & Neck
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Dr. Ali Kouhi: Otology
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Dr. Fatemeh Mirashrafi: Head & Neck, Pediatrics
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Dr. Mojtaba Mohammadi Ardehali: Rhinology, Facial Plastic
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Dr. Masoud Motasaddi Zarandy: Otology
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Dr. Maziar Motiei: Head & Neck
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Dr. Mohsen Naraghi: Rhinology, Facial Plastic
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Dr. Mahtab Rabbani Anari: Otology, Pediatrics
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Dr. Ebrahim Razmpa: Facial Plastic
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Dr. Mohammad Sadeghi: Facial Plastic
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Dr. Seyyed Mousa Sadr Hosseini: Rhinology
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Dr. Babak Saedi: Facial Plastic
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Dr. Seyyed Hadi Samimi Ardestani: Rhinology, Sleep Medicine
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Dr. Amir Arvin Sazgar: Facial Plastic
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Dr. Saeed Sohrabpour: Head & Neck
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Dr. Ardavan Tajdini: Facial Plastic
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Dr. Nasrin Yazdani: Otology, Head & Neck
Facilities and Equipment
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More than 120 beds for inpatient management distributed in three teaching hospitals (Amir Alam Hospital Complex, Valiasr Hospital, Children’s Hospital)
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Various general and subspecialty outpatient clinics (including otology, rhinology, head & neck, pediatrics, facial plastic, snoring, cochlear implant, cleft lip & palate, nasal fracture)
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A very active and referral emergency ward for all ENT emergency situations
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At least 11 operating rooms equipped for advanced ENT surgeries in subspecialties such as skull base surgeries, microvascular surgeries, free flap reconstruction surgeries, laryngeal preservation surgeries, implantable hearing surgeries, as well as general ENT surgeries
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An equipped temporal bone dissection lab. with 8 otologic microscopes which is the biggest one in the country and supports the training for general otologic surgeries, endoscopic ear surgeries, various hearing surgeries (middle ear reconstructions as well as implantable hearing surgeries) and advanced lateral skull base surgeries
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A cadaver dissection lab. for sinonasal, head and neck, and facial plastic surgery training
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Weekly tumor-board interdisciplinary program in Amir Alam Hospital which is unique (as organized with participation of the all ENT subspecialties, radiation therapy, radiology, and pathology specialties) and patients with advanced or challenging neoplasms are presented and discussed for the best management plan
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Otorhinolaryngology Research Center which is active in organizing and managing all the research topics related to the ENT
Head of Department
Dr. Mohammadtaghi Khorsandi Ashtiani
Tel.: (+98 21) 6670 3037
Fax: (+98 21) 6676 0245
Email: entdepartment@tums.ac.ir
Address: Amir Alam Hospital Complex, North Saadi Ave., Tehran, Iran
Postal Code: 11457-65111
Contact Person
Dr. Sasan Dabiri
Tel.: (+98 21) 6670 3037
Fax: (+98 21) 6676 0245
Email: entdepartment@tums.ac.ir, s-dabiri@tums.ac.ir
Address: Amir Alam Hospital Complex, North Saadi Ave., Tehran, Iran
Postal Code: 11457-65111