Kamran Bagheri Lankarani

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani (Persian: کامران باقری لنکرانی; born 1965) is an Iranian physician and politician who was Minister of Health and Medical Education from 2005 until 2009.

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
Minister of Health and Medical Education
In office 24 August 2005 – 3 September 2009
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Masoud Pezeshkian
Succeeded by	Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi
Personal details
Born	1965 (age 59–60) Tehran, Iran
Political party	Front of Islamic Revolution Stability[1]
Children	3 sons
Alma mater	Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
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Born in 1965, he finished medical school at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences,^[2] and attained an advanced fellowship degree in medicine from the same university. He specializes in gastroenterology.

Baqeri-Lankarani got his doctorate from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1989. He received post-doctorate certificate in 1992 from the same university. He served as a head of Shiraz Namazi Hospital (1993–94), deputy chancellor of Shiraz Medical Sciences University (1994–1996) and manager of the university's internal medicine department (since 1996). He then served as a member of the presiding board of Shiraz Medical System Administration (1996–2000), secretary of Islamic Association of Fars province physicians and a member of the Islamic Society of Shiraz University Students.^[3]

Academic contributions

As of 19 April 2025, Bagheri Lankarani's Google Scholar profile^[4] lists 821 publications on a variety of medicine-related topics. One article by Bagheri Lankarani and co-authors^[5], published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research in 2021, was retracted in 2024, due to "a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references, containing nonstandard phrases or not being in scope of the journal."^[6]