biography:
Dr. Gholam Hossein Marvasti was born in Yazd in 1912. His father, Mirza Mohammad Alim Marvasti, as a teacher of religious sciences, was teaching a course of jurisprudence in the Theological School of Yazd. In the beginning years of Reza Shah and the formation of Judiciary, he joined the judiciary and continued to serve as a public prosecutor in Isfahan, Kerman and Kashan until his death.
After completing the religious sciences at Yazd Theological School on 1931, Dr Marvasti moved from Yazd to Tehran where he obtained a high school diploma. He succeeded the entering exam of medical science in the University of Tehran and continued to study medicine in that university.
After six years, he received a doctorate in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tehran, and then chose to continue his study in the field of ENT at Amir Alam Hospital under the supervision of Professor Max Meyer, a former German professor of ENT diseases. Later he left for France for further studies.
He joined the academic staff of the University of Tehran as an assistant professor and later was appointed director of the ENT clinic where he succeeded in establishing of the ENT department of the 1000-bed Pahlavi Hospital.( the current Imam Khomeini) and until his retirement, he was in charge of the above department ,which fortunately, is still continues to provide services to specialists and surgeons in this field.
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