Dear Colleagues: We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Saleh Salehmoghaddam. Saleh, as he was known to all of us, was an essential member of the UCLA family for more than 30 years and an exceptionally devoted physician and teacher. A native of Iraq, Saleh had his secondary education in Europe. He received a BS degree in Pharmacy from Northern Ohio University, followed by graduate studies in Pharmacology at McGill University, where he also received an MD degree in 1977. Saleh completed training in Internal Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Vancouver General Hospital, and Chief Residency in Medicine at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver. Saleh came to UCLA in 1981 for a fellowship in Nephrology and joined the clinical voluntary faculty in 1984. He served as Co-director of the Renal Transplant Service in 1985-86 and subsequently as a consultant nephrologist to the transplant services and indeed to all services in the medical center. The consummate clinician with unfailing devotion to patient care and teaching, he could be found in the hospital at any hour of the day and night, always willing to be of help with a complicated case, and always ready to share his vast fund of knowledge and experience that extended far beyond his specialty of Nephrology. Saleh was nominated for the Department of Medicine Housestaff Teaching Award almost every year and was the recipient on multiple occasions. In recognition of his exceptional skills as a clinician and educator, the Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award in Honor of Saleh Salehmoghaddam, M.D. was established in 2009 to reward excellence in clinical teaching, clinical care, and scholarship. The recipients of this award have been proud to be compared with Saleh by their peers and students. It is indeed sad to know that Saleh has left us. We should be inspired by his example. We should aspire to the standard of excellence to which he held himself in the practice of medicine, and we should emulate the kind, warm, and generous spirit in which he treated everyone with whom he came into contact. A memorial service on campus will be planned for the near future. Alan M. Fogelman, MD Executive Chair Department of Medicine Jonathan R. Hiatt, MD Professor of Surgery Vice Dean for Faculty
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:59:42 +0000
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