Boroumand was born in Qaemshahr, Mazandaran province, and obtained his medical degree from University of Tehran Medical School.[1] He did his residency in Hackensack, New Jersey and District of Columbia General Hospital, and gained a fellowship in nephrology and nephropathology at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
During the 1970s, Boroumand worked at the 'National Dialysis and Transplant Committee' of health ministry and collaborated in the first kidney transplantation service in Iran. From 1976 to 1980, he was the president of 'Iranian Society of Nephrology' and office he holds for the second spell since 2000. He is acclaimed as "the founder and leader of kidney disease treatment in the Middle East" by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), and received the society's Pioneer Award in 2014.
Prof. Behrouz Boroumand has been acclaimed “as the founder and leader of kidney disease treatment (nephrology) in the Middle East,” by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). “His valuable efforts in creating and developing new methods in line with kidney diseases treatment and transplant in Iran and the Middle East are very important,” MNA quoted Giuseppe Remuzzi, head of ISN as saying.
A letter of appreciation will be awarded to him at the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) to be held in Cape Town, South Africa from March 13-17, 2015.Arab physicians and specialists in other Middle Eastern countries were also in the forefront for the award, but the central committee of the ISN announced Boroumand “as deserving to receive the honor for his valuable work.”
Mehdi Azar the Founder of the First Dialysis Ward in Iran
