Homa Shaibany (born in

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, Iran circa 1913), was

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's first female surgeon. In 1930, she received a scholarship to study

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and received a bachelor's degree in anatomy and morphology. She received her M.B.B.S. in 1939. She was licensed by the

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. She worked in England until 1948, when she returned to Iran. She established a hospital for the

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Homa Shaibany, M.B.B.S.; first woman surgeon of Iran
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