Sina Hospital

Sina Hospital
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Geography
Location	Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Coordinates	35.687°N 51.413°E / 35.687; 51.413
Organisation
Care system	Public healthcare
Type	Teaching hospital
Affiliated university	Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Network	Tehran University of Medical Sciences hospitals
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	473
History
Former names	Government Infirmary (Marizkhaneh-ye Dowlati); State Infirmary
Constructed	1872 (1872)
Opened	1872
Links
Website	sinahospital.tums.ac.ir
Lists	Hospitals in Iran

Sina Hospital (Persian: بیمارستان سینا), officially referred to as Sina University Hospital, is a public specialized and superspecialized teaching hospital serving as tertiary referral care in Tehran, Iran. Affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences, it is one of the oldest hospitals in Iran and is widely regarded as one of the country's first modern hospital, established during the late Qajar period under the influence of European medical practice, particularly that of the French healthcare system.

History

The hospital traces its origins to 1872, predating the formal modernisation of Iranian medicine by several decades. The hospital was established under Qajar period after Naser al-Din Shah's visit to Europe, developed an interest in constructing modern hospital inspired by contemporary European medical institutions. He issued a royal decree for the construction of an infirmary center.

The project was entrusted to two Qajar officials, Mirza Hosein Khan Sepahsalar, the then prime minister and Aliqoli Mirza Qajar, the minister of Health and Education. The facility opened in 1877 under the name the Mareezkhaneh-ye Dowlatī (State Infirmary).

During its early period, Sina Hospital relied mainly on Iranian physicians educated in Europe to provide medical care. Beginning in 1894/95, European doctors gradually became part of the hospital's medical staff, though their presence ended in 1921. Throughout this period, European-trained Iranian physicians contributed to the hospital's development by establishing several specialized medical departments and expanding modern clinical practice within the institution.

In 1940, following the hospital's incorporation into the University of Tehran School of Medicine, the institution underwent major organizational structure. The departments of internal medicine, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology were transferred to other hospitals, while the combined surgery and urology division was separated into independent units.

In 1939, professor Yahya Adl was appointed head of the hospital's surgical department who had recently returned to Iran after completing his studies in France. During his tenure, he introduced several surgical procedures that had not previously been performed in Iran. In 1953, he performed a mitral valve repair, becoming as one of the earliest cardiac surgical procedures undertaken in the country.

During the tenure of a French professor Dr. Eberlin, whose full name is not documented, the hospital's earlier infrastructure was renovated, and additional units dedicated to urology, laboratory services, and radiology were established. In later years, financial assistance provided by the Imperial Organization for Social Services (IOSS) of Iran supported the creation of a separate emergency surgical unit, which subsequently expanded into a larger surgical service with a reported capacity of approximately 200–250 beds.

The institution originally operated under the name Government Hospital. In 1940, it was renamed Sina Hospital after Avicenna, a Persian scholar whose medical contributions influenced the history of medicine in the Muslim nations and Europe.

Specializations

Sina Hospital operates as a multidisciplinary medical institution comprising clinical and surgical departments. Its services include multiple branches of medicine, including internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, hematology, oncology, anesthesiology, and emergency medicine, alongside surgical disciplines such as general surgery, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, orthopedics, and maxillofacial surgery.

The hospital also maintains units dedicated to organ transplantation, urology, nephrology, intensive care, radiology, pathology, and nuclear medicine. In addition to routine inpatient and outpatient services, it functions as a center for specialized surgical procedures and postgraduate clinical training within the university hospital network.

Research activity at the hospital is conducted as both a clinical and academic institution through affiliated centers in fields including urology, multiple sclerosis, and trauma and surgery. It also maintains an International Patient Department responsible for coordinating treatment services for patients arriving from outside Iran, particularly from neighboring countries and the Persian Gulf region.

Profile

As of 2024, Sina Hospital has 153 faculty members, with approximately 1,089 employees. The institution has more than 473 beds, 18 clinical departments, and a network of outpatient clinics and paraclinical units. As of 2019, it had 127 medical students enrolled each semester, in addition to 144 resident physicians, 16 fellowship trainees annually, and three foreign residents.

Library

Sina Hospital maintains a 120-square-metre library containing approximately 1,300 Persian-language books and 2,300 English-language books. The library also provides access to over 95 Persian and English academic journals, in addition to various audiovisual and educational resources that support the hospital's academic and research activities.

Research centers

• Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center
• Urology Research Center
• Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
• Obesity Research Center
• Pain Research Center
• Neurotumor Research Center
• Sina Neuroendocrine Surgery Research Center

List of presidents

  Denotes longest serving

  Denotes shortest serving

  Denotes 2nd term

S.No.	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Duration	Refs.
			Took Office	Left Office
1		Nazem al-Atebba	1872	1877	5 years
2		Mokhbar al-Dawlah (ps)	1877	1877	Less than 1 year
3		Mohammad Kermanshahi	1877	1883	6 years
4		Mirza Abulhasan Khan Bahrami	1883	1891	8 years
5		Dr. Loaf and Dr. Cole Nick	1891	1896	5 years
6		Dr. Ilberg	1896	1915	19 years
7		Loqman al-Mamalek (ps)	1915	1917	2 years
8		Hakim al-Dawlah (ps)	1917	1919	2 years
9		Abbas Adham	1919	1921	2 years
10		Saif al-Atba	1921	1923	2 years
11		Saeed Luqman Al-Mulk (ps)	1923	1934	11 years
12		Ali Parto Azam (Hakim Azam) (ps)	1934	1934	Less than 1 year
13		Saeed Luqman Al-Mulk (ps)	1934	1940	6 years
Transfer of Sina Hospital to the Faculty of Medicine and renaming from Marizkhane Dowlati (Government Infirmary) to Bimarestan Sina (Sina Hospital) (1940–present)
14		Dr. Falsafi	1976	1979	3 years
15		Seyed Ali Mozaffari	1979	1981	2 years
16		Gholam-Reza Pourmand	1981	1984	3 years
17		Parviz Jabalameli (ps)	1984	1985	1 year
18		Abdolrasoul Mehrsai	1985	1991	6 years
19		Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi	1991	1994	3 years
20		Mohammad Ghasem Mohseni	1994	1998	4 years
21		Hassan Tavakkoli	1998	2006	8 years
22		Gholam-Reza Pourmand	2006	2018	12 years
23		Mohammad Talebpour	2018	2022	4 years
24		Mohammad Taghi Talebian	2022	present	incumbent