Professor Khodadoost is a veteran scientist pioneering in ophthalmology.
The United Nations organization on Friday night held a ceremony in the southern Iran city of Shiraz to celebrate the sublime status of the Iranian professor.
Addressing the ceremony, head of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO Mohammadreza Saeedabadi referred to Professor Khodadoost as a scholarly physician who owes all its success to his beautiful views towards the Almighty and his creations as well as his love for people.
Saying that the professor contributed immensely to production and growth of knowledge by his effective and influential presence in different universities, he said that it is for the first time that the UNESCO is honoring an Iranian figure inside the country who is still living.
Saeedabadi had already reiterated that commemorating the exalted personality of Professor Khodadoost is a prophecy for the UNESCO, as transferring the scientific and exalted spiritual traits to the new generation is possible through such commemoration services.
Professor Ali Asghar Khodadoost was born in 1935 in Shiraz.
He completed his studies up to the end of high school and started teaching at a primary school there.
In 1954, he began his higher studies in Shiraz University's Faculty of Medial Sciences as a top student.
When he completed his six year studies successfully and with full A grade report cards the professor began as an intern to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Department of Shiraz University's Namazi Hosplital till 1962.
In that year he left for the US to complete his specialized studies in the famous John Hopkins University.
He was admitted as the first and only foreign assistant in the Ophthalmology Section of John Hopkins University in 1963 and throughout the next three years of serving as an assistant there, he was praised as the best assistant of the Wilmer Ophthalmology Center.
A large number of Professor Khodadoost's articles were published in the website of the Pop Medicine and other international scientific perioricals.
In 1968 he got back to Iran and began teaching in Faculty of Ophthalmology of the University of Shiraz as a full professor.
From 1968 to 1980 he frequented once every six months between the University of Shiraz and the John Hopkins University where in addition to teaching he also pursed his scientific projects.
During the same period he also taught as guest professor in various countries' universities, including those in China, Turkey, Syria, Oman, Peru, Ecuador, and Italy.
In 1982 he was appointed as a full professor in Faculty of Ophthalmology of Italy's Sicily University and in 1992 he established the Connecticut Ophthalmology Center in Newington where he continued as the senior supervisor.
The mighty Iranian ophthalmologist from 1980 on, frequently returned to Iran and flew back to US, participating both in hospital treatments of the patients and in academic trainings of young ophthalmologists of the universities of both countries, especially in Tehran and Shiraz.
His fame in the world in addition to the publication of several scientific articles and broad scale research works in various fields is due to the new remedial methods that he has initiated in eye operations.
The eye membrane section of the John Hopkins University is named after professor as Khodadoost Basement Membrane Line.
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