Amin Ahmad Al Saden was a consultant physician who worked in Baghdad, Iraq and then Iran. He was born in Baghdad, the son of Ahmad Abdul Rhida Saden, a dental supply manager, and Fakreyia Majeed Saden née Hussain, a housewife. He attended Markazia Secondary School in Baghdad and then studied medicine at Baghdad University.

From 1972 to 1976 he was a senior house officer, registrar and senior registrar in the Medical City Teaching Hospital, Baghdad. He then went to the UK, where he was a senior house officer and registrar at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow and Greenwich Hospital, London.

From 1980 to 1990 he was a consultant physician and lecturer in the Al-Mustansiriya Unit in Baghdad. He and his family were then forced to leave the country and became refugees. From 1991 to 1994 he was a consultant physician at Avabawi Hospital, Iran and from 1992 to 1996 he was a volunteer with the Amar International Charitable Foundation, working with refugees, also in Iran.

He was elected as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996.

In 1974 he married Sumer F Ali. They had two sons and two daughters.

RCP editor