Hooshang Taybi, MD

October 22, 1919 Malayer, Iran

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry,

New York 1948

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry New

York 1948• Residency in pediatrics Akron Children's Hospital 1952,

where he met his future wife, Alice Baum, a nurse anesthetist there

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry, New York

1948• Residency in pediatrics Akron Children's Hospital 1952,

met his future wife, Alice Baum, a nurse anesthetist there • Pediatric Radiology training, Cincinnati 1955

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry New

York 1948• Residency in pediatrics Akron Children's Hospital 1952,

met his future wife, Alice Baum, a nurse anesthetist there• Pediatric Radiology training, Cincinnati 1955• Radiologist in Oklahoma and Indiana

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry New

York 1948• Residency in pediatrics Akron Children's Hospital 1952,

met his future wife, Alice Baum, a nurse anesthetist there Pediatric Radiology training Cincinnati 1955

• Radiologist Oklahoma and Indianapolis• Radiologist San Francisco Children's Hospital, UCSF

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry New

York 1948• Residency in pediatrics Akron Children's Hospital 1952,

met his future wife, Alice Baum, a nurse anesthetist there• Pediatric Radiology training, Cincinnati 1955• Radiologist Oklahoma and Indianapolis• Radiologist San Francisco Children's Hospital • Radiologist and Director Children's Hospital

Oakland 1967- 1986 • Retired as Director: 1986

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Medical school Teheran, Iran 1938-1944• Staff physician in public hospitals 1945 –1948• Postgraduate training including child psychiatry New

York 1948• Residency in pediatrics Akron Children's Hospital 1952,

met his future wife, Alice Baum, a nurse anesthetist there• Pediatric Radiology training, Cincinnati 1955• Radiologist Oklahoma and Indianapolis• Radiologist San Francisco Children's Hospital • Radiologist and Director Children's Hospital

Oakland 1967- 1986 • Retired as Director 1986, continued teaching at UCSF

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and Skeletal

Dysplasias

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and Skeletal

Dysplasias

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and Skeletal

Dysplasias

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and Skeletal

Dysplasias

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that bear his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and Skeletal

Dysplasias

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that bear his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and Skeletal

Dysplasias

Hooshang Taybi, MD

Awards• President, society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) 1973-1974• Gold Medalist SPR 1993• Bronze Bambino Award, Children’s Hospital Oakland• The Hooshang Taybi Honorary Lectureship at CHO

Achievements• Described three new syndromes that bear his name• Radiology of Syndromes 1975• Radiology of Syndromes, metabolic Disorders and

Skeletal Dysphasia (with Ralph Lackman, MD)• 50 peer-reviewed articles• 24 chapters in various text books

Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome

• Taybi, while in pedi radiology training in

1955, recognized RTS in 7 unrelated children,

described it in 1957, identified as a recognizable

syndrome with Dr. Jack Rubinstein in 1963

• Broad thumbs and great toes, facial abnormalities and mental retardation

• Caused by a deletion or mutation of the

short arm of EP300 gene• Over 400 cases reported with this syndrome since 1963

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• Retired as Director of Radiology at CHO in 1986

• Learned how to sew

• Gave clothing to unprivileged children and victims of earthquake in his home country

• Always said “ .. It is better to give than to receive..”

• Loved poetry, painting, ceramics

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• He learned how to make jewelries and fashioned ceremonial presidential chains for SPR and ESPR

• Gave generously to SPR and the children’s Hospital Oakland Foundation

• Wrote his autobiography at the request of a nephew in Iranand later translated it into English

• Dr. Taybi died at his home in Walnut Creek, California on August 22, 2006

Hooshang Taybi, MD

• He learned how to make jewelries and fashioned ceremonial presidential chains for SPR and ESPR

• Gave generously to SPR and the children’s Hospital Oakland Foundation

• Wrote his autobiography at the request of a nephew in Iranand later translated it into English

• Dr. Taybi died at his home in Walnut Creek, California on August 22, 2006

HOOSHANG TAYBI, MDHOOSHANG TAYBI, MD1919- 20061919- 2006

Our sincere Condolecences

to Mrs. Alice Baum TaybiFrom

The Iranian Radiological Society

And

The North American Iranian Radiological Society

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