Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati is the Director of the National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD) at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. He is a Full Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and he has guided more than 300 MD and PhD students. He is also the Head of Mycobacteriology Research Center (MRC) in NRITLD, where he directly monitors the basic and clinical trial on tuberculosis. Dr. Velayati is the President of the Asian African Society of Mycobacteriology and of the Society of Biomedical and Biotechnology Scientists. He is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Mycobacteriology, the Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, and the Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal.

• 1. Hospitalization, diagnosis, treatment, and surgery in Iran: the lifecycle of medical sciences in old Persia (before Islam)2. The medical lifecycle in regards of hospitalization, diagnosis, treatment, and surgery (after Islam)3. The medical life cycle of surgery in Iran: past and present4. The exchange of medical lifecycle in regards of hospitalization, diagnosis and treatment between the Iran and other developing countries

"...presents a history of medicine spanning from the Persian Empire to present-day Iran [and] focuses specifically on the history of medicine among the Persian populations…. [A] hidden gem that will be of interest to those curious about the Arab-Islamic world and its contributions to modern medicine…. [W]ritten with a fluidity that makes it easy to read,… this book is a valuable contribution, as the history of "Persian medicine" is often neglected in current history, overlooking that the greatest physicians of the Arabo-Islamic World were of Persian origin." --©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Alain Touwaide, PhD (Ronin Institute)