Professor Kamaleddin Armin (1914-1995); a Superb Mentor with High Morals.

Abstract

and secondary schools and subsequently enrolled in Tehran Medical School in 1934. He was a clever student. In the third year, he became the instructor of anatomy under Dr. Edward Beller and Dr. Hashem Hanjan, the surgeon who also performed autopsy at that period at the Roozbeh Hospital in Tehran and Dr. Armin aided him. Dr. Edward Beller was an American physician working at the American Hospital in Tehran who founded the anatomy laboratory of the Tehran Medical School and equipped the anatomy hall and provided the needed human cadavers for dissection in collaboration with Dr. Abolghasem Bakhatiar, the American trained surgeon. The young Dr. Armin learned the details of technical work in the anatomy laboratory. In 1940, he graduated from Tehran Medical School and received his MD. Dr. Armin is seen in the middle, his graduation ceremony, 1940.