Jimione Samisoni

Jimione (Jimmie) Isimeli Samisoni (died April 2007)[1] was a Fijian physician and academic who served as Dean of the Fiji School of Medicine (FSM).

[1] After receiving a fellowship from the World Health Organization, he went on to study at the Otago University where he graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Medicine.

[1] Later he continued post-graduate studies at the University of Queensland where he graduated with a Masters of Science degree.

From the mid to late 1970s, Dr Samisoni worked as a house surgeon in Queensland.

During the year of the first military coup in Fiji (1987), Dr Jimmie Samisoni left Fiji and joined the University of Hawaii's medical faculty as an assistant clinical professor.