One of many articles written about Spartan graduate. Out of respect for this physicians' privacy, I put [Spartan grad.] for his name, [location] for where he was providing care, etc.

There are other articles written by other USA journalists that show picture of this Spartan grad. receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Big plaque sits on his office wall from the Norweigian Nobel Prize committee that reads: his name, Nobel Peace Prize, Doctors Without Borders, 1999

The organization Doctors Without Borders was honored with the Nobel Prize. However, organizations are made up of people. A select few doctors whom the Nobel Prize committee found to have played a significant role in Doctors Without Borders and for all their great work for humanity, were chozen to come to Norway, put on the tuxedo and receive the Nobel Peace Prize. A Spartan Health Sciences University grad. was one of those select doctors!!!!

Great news for Spartan!!! Great news for all Carib. Med schools!!!!




Nobel Peace Prize

Tuesday, November 23, 1999

By [name of reporter]
[name of newspaper] Staff Reporter

A [location] doctor will take a break from helping the needy around the world next month to help pick up the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. [Spartan Grad.] will fly to the Philippines on Sunday to provide medical care for women just days before he and other physicians from Doctors Without Borders accept the award.

"That's what this is all about,'' [Spartan grad.] said yesterday. "I have been given the privilege to be in a field where I can help people.''

[Spartan Grad.], 32, is a fourth-year chief resident of obstetrics and gynecology at [location] University Medical Center.

The hospital allows him to volunteer for several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, [Spartan grad.] said.

The organization offers medical aid where needed around the world and was awarded the Nobel Prize last month. The award will be presented Dec. 10 in Oslo, Norway.

[Spartan grad.], a Canadian citizen, has been at [location] for six years. He and the hospital also coordinate work with two other humanitarian organizations -- Health for Humanity and Medicine for Humanity.

[Spartan Grad.] and Dr. [another doctor], director of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at [location] Cancer Hospital, will spend two weeks in the Philippines providing cervical-cancer screenings and other treatment for women. The trip is affiliated with Medicine for Humanity.

"I am so excited about going to Oslo,'' [Spartan grad.] said. "We're hoping this will let people know how important volunteering is.

"The award is wonderful, and we had no idea we would be acknowledged for our work. The credit goes to the organization (Doctors Without Borders) and the local people of these countries who have had the courage to bring about good health care for their people.''

[Spartan grad.] has made trips to China and Africa with Doctors Without Borders.

"My main emphasis is women's health care,'' [Spartan grad.] said. "In some of these countries, women's health care was not a priority. Things such as Pap smears were not done in China.

"And preventable diseases were killing women.''

[Spartan Grad.] said officials from Doctors Without Borders worked hard to convince various governments of the need to provide women's health care.

"In these countries, like China, women are the primary teachers of children,'' he said. "If they are gone, the children are lost.''

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Moffitt's New Doctor Leaps Borders To Save Women

By GARY HABER ghaber@tampatrib.com
Published: Mar 1, 2004






TAMPA - Sean Tedjarati turns on the computer, looking for the lecture he gave his fellow oncologists on women's health care in developing countries.
It reveals a lot about Tedjarati that, when the computer screen flickers to life, the first image from his presentation is not an anonymous X-*** or a chart, dispassionately listing mortality rates.

It's a photograph of a woman from the Philippines whom Tedjarati treated for cervical cancer.

The Pap test has tamed cervical cancer in the United States. But around the world, this treatable disease kills as many as 1 million women a year.

That's a statistic Tedjarati, a gynecologic oncologist at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, aims to erase.

His fellow physicians call him a go-getter who'll bring major changes to Moffitt, one of the nation's leading cancer centers but an institution some say can do more on the international stage.

``Five years from now, you'll see that things have changed globally, and they will have changed because of him,'' says James Fiorica, who directs Moffitt's gynecologic oncology program, and the man who recruited Tedjarati.

At 36 - the curtain call for a professional athlete's career but Act I for a cancer physician - Tedjarati is a Nobel Prize laureate. Tedjarati, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in France and Montreal, shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999 for his work in Africa and China as a member of Doctors Without Borders.

With his international experience and an oncology fellowship from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Tedjarati could have gone to any cancer program in the country. He was enticed to come to Moffitt because the cancer center promised he would not only be able to treat patients and do research here, but also launch cancer screening and treatment programs around the world.

It's a cause close to Tedjarati's heart.

``How can you progress as a population when you don't have access to basic health care?'' he says. ``It's about the nobility of a person.''


Helping Women In Costa Rica

In the six months Tedjarati has been at Moffitt, he has helped engineer the largest international initiative in the center's history. He brokered an agreement with the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress under which Moffitt physicians, and students and faculty from the University of South Florida School of International Affairs, will collaborate on a program to improve the lives of women in Costa Rica.

The idea is about more than medical care. Moffitt physicians, led by Tedjarati, will screen and treat women for cervical cancer. USF international affairs specialists will develop literacy and environmentally friendly economic development programs.

For Tedjarati, it represents the perfect blending of twin passions - women's health issues and international human rights - that have driven him ever since, at age 18, he volunteered in West Africa with the Canadian International Development Agency.

In the two decades since, through medical school in Connecticut and residencies in internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University medical school, Tedjarati has traveled to more than 60 countries on medical missions.

The personal touches in Tedjarati's shoe box of an office attest to his globe-trotting. On one wall hangs a collage of photographs from the Nobel Prize ceremony. On another wall, there is a scroll, written in Chinese characters, identifying Tedjarati as an honorary citizen of Anhui province in China for his work there.


Faith Prompts Action

Tedjarati attributes his commitment to human rights to his Baha'i faith.

``Service to human rights has to be part of our lives, not just an afterthought,'' he says. ``It's more than a simple feeling of charity. I hate that word, because that depicts a person in a position of desperation. Instead, I think of it in terms of nobility and elevation.''

Still, in a world of grueling 16-hour days, filled with treating patients and doing research, it takes a remarkable person to do what Tedjarati does, Fiorica says.

``You have to have the willpower and the drive to make this happen,'' Fiorica says. ``He will succeed at this, mark my words.''

Johnathan Lancaster, an assistant professor at Moffitt and medical director of the Lifetime Cancer Screening program, works with Tedjarati on Moffitt's OB/GYN team. The two have become good friends.

They are the same age, and each arrived at Moffitt in the summer, Lancaster from a fellowship at Duke University Medical Center.

``If you asked me for one word that describes Sean, I'd say intense,'' Lancaster says. ``He's a great partner, he's incredibly hard-working and 100 percent committed to everything he does.''

Tedjarati already has left his mark on Moffitt, Lancaster says.

His friend and colleague falls into that ``handful of people who come into your life where retroactively, or, if you're lucky, you realize at the time, they are going to greatly impact your life,'' Lancaster says.

The people of Costa Rica will soon find out the same.


Reporter Gary Haber can be reached at (813) 259-8285.

Boy, something is weird here...so many people claiming to have got the award...wonder if the Nobel committee knows who actually got it?

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Azsceptic, all previous articles and websites in this section of this forum posted by dt and I are about the same Nobel Prize Winner!!!

Its unbelievable how your desire to spread negative propaganda about Spartan has blinded you so much.

this is spam, plain and simple...the fact is that the organization won the nobel prize...fantastic that a spartan grad is doing such good work. but, your claims are frankly ridiculous and pointless....and, all this spam simply makes the school look desperate to find any little thing and twist it into a marketing ploy...

what you need from an offshore school:

1. USMLE results (for everyone, not just the random 230+ scores)
2. residency placements (again, for everyone, not the one grad out of 2000 that got a good spot)
3. licensablility in all 50 states.

if spartan can claim the above, great...but all the other distractions that are being posted simply have nothing to do with what is important to potential students. they need a school that has a good chance of helping them achieve results. some random resident in a harvard program, or one grad working with MSF really doesn't mean a heck of a lot...frankly, i think it is misleading.

see http://www.valuemd.com/viewtopic.php?t=16619&start=0

BTW sgu has a nobel winner and you know what? It didnt impact on my residency -or anyone elses either. I have no knowledge of spartan's strengths or weaknesses but to suggest this makes a school worth looking at merely underlines the naivety of the individual.

Also- please be aware staring multiple threads on the same topic is floodings and verbotin re: TOS.

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IF A PHYSICIAN INVITED TO OSLO TO BE HONERED INFRONT OF MILLION AROUND THE WORLD,IF ANOTHER INVITED TO BE HONORED AT THE BREAKERS HOTEL INFRONT OF HUNDREDS ,IF ANOTHER INVITED TO ORLANDO TO BE HONONERED AS THE BEST HEALTHCARE CEO,AND SOME CONSIDERS THIS IS NOT RELEVANT ACHIEVEMENTS FOR A MED SCHOOL,I DO NOT BELIEVE SUCH CROWD WILL BE IMPRESSED BY ANYTHING.I SALUTE ALL SUCCESSFUL IMG'S REGARDLESS OF WHAT SCHOOL THEY ATTENDED,I ALSO BELIEVE ANYONE BEFORE THEY BECOME DOCTORS THEY SHOULD LEARN ONE WORD "RESPECT".

You know what I'm impressed about? I actually was able to read all that you just wrote without going dizzy. Relax with the capitals will ya?

Just me being me.

So, um, did this nobel prize winner get interviewed or anything? Did he mention about Spartan? Did he talk about his experience there? Because if he doesn't talk about Spartan, then maybe it's him and his own personal drive that made him successful, NOT the school he went to. He might not even be proud of the fact that he went to Spartan. However, he also might be super proud of Spartan. Guess we'll have to wait and see what he says in his acceptance speech or something, eh? <--Yes, I am Canadian.

Stitches, he was trained at spartan and they gave him the opportunity to do his rotations at Griffin Hospital (Yale Affiliate). Through spartan he became a doctor and qualified for residency. I am sure that he has a very positive image of his experience, however, we can never be sure even if he were to tell the newspapers that he loved his medical school. Maybe he was just being nice.

But we can, at least, say this for sure and that is that Spartan gave him a great opportunity and he capitalized on it. There many more wonderful stories. Unfortunately, there are a few people in this forum who prefer to destroy any discussion about any of the positive aspects of spartan.