Nizam Missaghi

Nizam Missaghi, M.D., is an Iranian-American physician. He left his native Iran after the completion of high school due to being deprived of access to higher education as a religious minority in the Islamic Republic.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia and pursued his medical education at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. After completion of his residency in anesthesiology, he moved to the Phoenix metro area, where he is a founding member of Grand Canyon Anesthesia and a clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Arizona School of Medicine and Midwestern University.

He currently serves as the chairman of the board for Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, where human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic are investigated, verified, and documented. He is the author of multiple articles in Persian and English that focus on human rights and Iran-related matters. He has given multiple presentations about social psychology and human behavior. He is also the founder of The Simpatico Foundation, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Arizona that promotes diversity and the arts.