Dr. A-M. Ghadirian — Biography
Dr. Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian is an author, researcher and Emeritus Professor at McGill University, Faculty of Medicine in Montreal as well as a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has spoken in numerous public, professional and university venues around the world and received several awards for his scientific and humanitarian contributions and services.
His extensive research includes about 170 articles published mostly in scientific journals and in other professional media in the field of social science and psychiatry. He is the author of fourteen books, including “In Search of Nirvana”, “Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities”, “Environment and Psychopathology” and “Alcohol and Drug Abuse: a Psychosocial and Spiritual Approach to Prevention”.
More recently he has published the books “Creative Dimensions of Suffering” (USA, 2009), “Materialism – Moral and Social Consequences” (2010 & Second edition 2017 ), for which he received Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Association for Baha’i Studies in 2011,“Steadfastness in the Covenant”, George Ronald Publisher, Oxford UK (2014) and Alzheimer’s Disease: An Eclipse before Sunset (2nd edition) 2016, USA. Some of his works have been translated and published in French, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Persian and Chinese.
Since 2002 he has been teaching a course on Spirituality and Ethics in Medicine which he initiated and established at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine as part of its programme for undergraduate students. His academic research in recent years has focused on topics including resilience and creativity in the midst of adversity and the interrelationship of science and spirituality.
He has been writing on the application of Baha’i principles to current societal problems and also about the persecution of the Baha’is of Iran. He was consultant to the Baha’i International Community, a non-governmental organization (NGO) at the United Nations on the prevention of alcoholism and drug dependencies (1977-2000).
He taught in the distance education programme of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE-Iran) as one of its professors from around the world from 2006-2012. Currently he is a guest speaker for the BIHE program on Public Health.
