Keyvan Moghissi

Keyvan Moghissi (22 June 1927 – 13 November 2025) was a prominent cardiothoracic surgeon and professor, who helped to set up two major research centres for cardiac surgery and laser therapeutic pathways, in Hull and Goole respectively.

Early life Keyvan Moghissi was born in Tehran, then called Persia and now Iran, into a Bahá’í family, the second of six children. His father, Ahmad Moghissi-Chirazi, was a civil servant, and his mother, Monireh Rouhan, was a teacher. He went to a medical school in Tehran, as his elder brother had done previously, before going to the University of Geneva in 1947 to gain his surgical qualifications. Whilst in Switzerland he met a British nurse, Elsie Alexander, who was later to become his wife.