Medical School:

• University of Shiraz Medical College, Shiraz, Iran

Internship:

• Nemazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran
• Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL

Residency:

• Nemazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran (Medicine)
• Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL (General Surgery)
• University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (General Surgery)

Certification:

• American Board of Surgery

Societies, Organizations and Honors:

• Association for Academic Surgery
• American Federation for Clinical Research
• American Gastroenterological Association
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
• Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Association of V.A. Surgeons
• Iowa Academy of Surgery
• Collegium Internationale Chirurgiae Digestivae
• American Medical Association
• Western Surgical Association
• Society of University Surgeons
• Societe Internationale de Chirurgie
• Central Society for Clinical Research
• Central Surgical Association

Research Interests:

• Esophagus
• Gastrointestinal motility
• Computer applications in medicine

Selected Recent Publications:
Recent Peer-Reviewed Papers:

• W Lange, K Schulze-Delrieu, H Lange, S Shirazi and G Lepsien: Cecum of the guinea pig is a reservoir and sigmoid is a high-resistance conduit. Dig Dis Sci 40:1015-1023, 1995.
• B P Brown, J E Schrier, K S Berbaum, S S Shirazi and K Schulze-Delrieu: Haustral septations increase axial and radial distribution of luminal contents in glass models of the colon. Am J Physiol 269(Gastrointest Liver Physiol 32):G706-G709, 1995.
• K Schulze-Delrieu, B Brown, B Herman, C K Brown, D Lawrence, S Shirazi, T Palmieri and J Raab: Preservation of peristaltic reflex in hypertrophied ileum of guinea pig. Am J Physiol 269:G49-G59, 1995.
• S Shirazi and K Schulze-Delrieu: Role of altered responsiveness of hypertrophic smooth muscle in manometric abnormalities ofthe obstructed opossum oesophagus. Neurogastroenterol Motil 8:111-119, 1996.
• Recent Non Peer-Reviewed Papers:
  S Shirazi: Ask this: Is it good medicine? Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 12, 1999.
• S Shirazi: Congress did the right thing. Iowa Medicine 89:5, 1999 (President's Comments).
• S Shirazi: Learning & teaching together. Iowa Medicine 89:5, 1999 (President's Comments).
• S Shirazi: Our uninsured patients need help. Iowa Medicine 89:5, 1999 (President's Comments).
• S Shirazi: Health care issues--voters are worried. Iowa Medicine 90:5, 2000 (President's Comments).
• S Shirazi: $600,000 raised for IMS endowment fund. Iowa Medicine 90:5, 2000 (President's Comments).

Books:

• S S Shirazi (ed): Hernias of the Diaphragm and Abdominal Wall. Garden City, Medical Examination Publishing Company, Inc, 1981, 170 pages.