İhsan Doğramacı

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Statue of İhsan Doğramacı in front of the Hacettepe University Children's Hospital.

İhsan Doğramacı (born April 3, 1915 in Erbil , Ottoman Empire (now the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan , Iraq ); † February 25, 2010 in Ankara , Turkey ) was a Turkmen-born Turkish professor and doctor of medicine.

Life

Doğramacı attended school in Erbil and then moved to Beirut , where he graduated from the International College in 1932 , which is affiliated with the American University of Beirut . He then went to the Medical Faculty of Baghdad University for three years . He then went to Turkey, where he graduated as a doctor in Istanbul in 1938. Here he became the assistant to the German-Jewish pediatrician Albert Eckstein . Years in the United States followed , working in Washington, DC and Boston . In 1942 he married Ayser Hanım, the daughter of an Iraqi politician. In 1949 Doğramacı became a lecturer at Ankara University and in 1954 he was promoted to professor. In 1958 he founded the Hacettepe University Children's Hospital. Between 1963 and 1965 he was the director of Ankara University. From 1967 to 1975 he was the director of Hacettepe University . From 1964 to 1973 he was a board member of the European Universities Conference (CRE). From 1981 he was temporarily a board member, president and honorary president of the International Conference on Higher Education (ICHE). From 1981 to 1992 he was the President of the Turkish University Council (YÖK). In 1984 he founded the private Bilkent University , whose current rector is his son Ali Doğramacı.

Doğramacı was an honorary member of the Club of Rome and recipient of the honorary award of the Turkish Parliament. He also received the European Pro-Humanitate Prize . He was the honorary president of the International Association of Pediatry .

From 1958 until his death he chaired the Turkish national UNICEF committee. He also worked for the World Health Organization and helped set up medical schools in various countries.

He was one of the senior fellows of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought), Jordan .

Doğramacı had been in the hospital since October 2009 and died on February 25, 2010 of multiple organ failure . He was buried on February 28 at the Doğramacızade Ali Paşa Camisi, which he had built in honor of his father, in Bilkent / Ankara .

Academic memberships

  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1976
  • National Academy of Medical Sciences, India
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine, France
  • America Academy of Pediatrics, USA
  • Elmler Akademiyası, Azerbaijan
  • Royal College of Physicians, England
  • Royal College of Pediatrics, England, founding member
  • Child Health, England, founding member
  • Honorary Member of the National Pediatric Societies of Argentina, Australia, Austria, England, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Tunisia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Morocco, Turkmenistan, Turkey, USA, Uzbekistan.

Awards

Honorary doctorates

medal

Prices

  • TurkeyTurkey Turkey : National Award for Distinguished Service (Scientific and Technical Research), 1978
  • World health organizationWorld health organization WHO : Léon Bernard Foundation Prize
  • United StatesUnited States United States : Christopherson Award (American Academy of Pediatrics), 1986
  • UNICEF UNICEF : Maurice Pate Award, 1995
  • World health organizationWorld health organization WHO : Health-For-All Gold Medal, 1997
  • TurkeyTurkey Turkey : Health and Education Award for Merit, 1999
  • TurkeyTurkey Turkey : Ministry of Foreign Affairs Distinguished Service Award, 2000
  • Council of Europe : "Peace, Justice and Tolerance" Prize, 1998 with Simon Wiesenthal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Çimen Günay-Erkol and Arnold Reisman: Émigré Albert Eckstein's Legacy on Health Care Modernization in Turkey: Two Generations of Students Who Have Made Major Contributions , p. 40
  2. ↑ Website of the hospital Information on the hospital and its founding history ( Memento of October 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)
  3. ↑ patronlardunyasi.com Message about the award ceremony ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)
  4. ↑ aalalbayt.org ( Memento from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Doğramacı son yolculuğuna uğurlandı article from the Milliyet of February 28, 2010
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa TBMM Buletin: Issue: 136/137 May-June 2007, accessed on May 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Doğramacı, İhsan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish medical doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbil , Ottoman Empire (now the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan , Iraq )
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2010
Place of death Ankara , Turkey