Chucri Zaidan

Chucri Zaidan (October 29 , 1891 – September 16, 1980) was a medical doctor in Brazil.

Chucri Zaidan was born in Damascus, Ottoman Empire on 29 October 1891 and then migrated to Brazil in 1925, leaving Syria.

Zaidan studied in the Medical Sciences College of the American University of Beirut and graduated as a physician in 1916.

He was one of the first foreign physicians to revalidate his diploma in Brazil where he practised obstetric medicine in Hospital Pró-Mater.

[1] In his honor, the Avenida Ao Longo do Dreno do Brooklin received the name Doutor Chucri Zaidan through the Executive Order no.