Ali Asghar Khodadoust ( fa, علیاصغر خدادوست)
(27 October 1935 – 10 March 2018) was an Iranian eye surgeon specializing in
corneal transplantation
Corneal transplantation, also known as corneal grafting, is a surgical procedure where a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by donated corneal tissue (the graft). When the entire cornea is replaced it is known as penetrating keratoplasty a ...
, in whose honor the
Khodadoust rejection line is named. He worked at different eye clinics in the U.S. like the
Wilmer Eye Institute The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, also referred to as the Wilmer Eye Institute, is a component of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer opened the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1925. Its home was co ...
at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...
and at the Connecticut Ophthalmology Center in
New Haven
New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...
. His medical reputation was the result of his extensive studies on corneal diseases and
transplantation biology.
Death
Khodadoust died at
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools, Cornell University and Columbia University. The hospital comprises seven distinct campuses located in the New Y ...
in New York City on March 9, 2018. He was 82.
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110707183747/http://www.atlasophthalmology.com/atlas/photo.jsf;?node=6888&locale=en
* http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v4/n5/abs/eye199097a.html
* http://health.usnews.com/doctors/ali-khodadoust-218909
* http://www.aimjournal.ir/pdffiles/38_jun2013_0014.pdf
1935 births
2018 deaths
Iranian ophthalmologists
People from Shiraz
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