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{{short description|Indian ophthalmologist}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Hamida Saiduzzafar
| image = HamidaSaiduzzafar.png
| alt = An older South Asian woman with short grey hair.
| caption =
| other_names = Hamida Said-uz-Zafar
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 16 July 1921
| birth_place = Nainital, Uttar Pradesh
| death_date = 1988
| death_place =
| occupation = Ophthalmologist
| years_active =
| known_for =
| notable_works =
| spouse(s) =
| relatives = [[Rashid Jahan]] (sister-in-law)
}}

'''Hamida Saiduzzafar''' (16 July 1921 – 1988) was an Indian ophthalmologist.

== Early life ==
Saiduzzafar was born in [[Nainital]], the daughter of Sahibzada Saiduzzafar Khan and Shaukat Ara [[Begum]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Urfi|first=Jamil|date=2020-05-01|title=Remembering Dr. Hamida Saiduzzafar: A birdwatcher par excellence|url=https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/05/01/remembering-dr-hamida-saiduzzafar-a-woman-of-substance-and-birdwatcher-par-excellence/|access-date=2020-10-18|website=Karvaan India|language=en-GB}}</ref> Her father was a physician and medical school professor in [[Lucknow]]. She earned a medical degree from [[King George's Medical University|King George's Medical College]] in Lucknow, and a doctorate in [[ophthalmology]] at the [[University of London]]. While in England, she trained at [[Moorfields Eye Hospital]], and did further work in [[glaucoma]] research in London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Chattopadhyay|first=Anjana|url=https://nbtindia.gov.in/writereaddata/freebooks/pdf/Women%20Scientists%20in%20India.pdf|title=Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles & Achievements|date=2018|publisher=National Book Trust, India|isbn=978-81-237-8144-0|language=en}}</ref>

Writer [[Rashid Jahan]] was Saiduzzafar's sister-in-law.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mirza|first=Begum Khurshid|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWZX1eIUDZoC&q=Hamida+Saiduzzafar&pg=PA87|title=A Woman of Substance: The Memoirs of Begum Khurshid Mirza, 1918-1989|date=2005|publisher=Zubaan|isbn=978-81-89013-31-8|pages=87|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1987|title=JSAL interviews DR. HAMIDA SAIDUZZAFAR: A conversation with Rashid Jahan's sister-in-law, Aligarh, 1973|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40873940|journal=Journal of South Asian Literature|volume=22|issue=1|pages=158–165|jstor=40873940|issn=0091-5637|last1=Saiduzzafar|first1=Hamida}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Jalil|first=Rakhshanda|date=January 2012|title=Rashid Jahan: The 'Bad Girl' of Urdu Literature|url=http://www.sangatreview.org/blog/2014/11/25/rashid-jahan/|access-date=2020-10-18|website=Sangat Book Review|language=en-US}}</ref> Performers [[Uzra Butt]] and [[Zohra Sehgal]] were her cousins.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lambert-Hurley|first=Siobhan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WORmDwAAQBAJ&q=Hamida+Saiduzzafar&pg=PT210|title=Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia|date=2018-07-31|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-1-5036-0652-4|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Saiduzzafar was an ophthalmic surgeon in [[Aligarh|Aligharh]], at the Gandhi Eye Hospital. From 1978 to 1981, she was a professor at [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. In 1982, she received the Distinguished Woman Award from [[Banaras Hindu University]]. In 1987, she worked with the [[World Health Organization]] on blindness and glaucoma.<ref name=":0" /> She published research in the ''[[British Journal of Ophthalmology]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Saiduzzafar|first=Hamida|title=Variant of Duane's Retraction Syndrome|date=1959-11-01|url= |journal=British Journal of Ophthalmology|language=en|volume=43|issue=11|pages=700–702|doi=10.1136/bjo.43.11.700|issn=0007-1161|pmc=509882|pmid=14440804}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Saiduzzafar|first=Hamida|date=1962-12-01|title=Studies in Ocular Rigidity|url= |journal=British Journal of Ophthalmology|language=en|volume=46|issue=12|pages=717–729|doi=10.1136/bjo.46.12.717|issn=0007-1161|pmc=510277|pmid=18170842}}</ref> the ''[[Indian Journal of Ophthalmology]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Saiduzzafar Hamida|date=1959-01-01|title=The effect of citral on variations in the aqueous outflow facility of rabbits|url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/doaj/03014738/1959/00000007/00000002/art00001|journal=Indian Journal of Ophthalmology|volume=7|issue=2|pages=39–42}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Saiduzzafar Hamida|last2=Pradhan J|last3=Gogi R|date=1969-01-01|title=Peripheral iridectomy with scleral cautery - a simple technique|url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/doaj/03014738/1969/00000017/00000001/art00003|journal=Indian Journal of Ophthalmology|volume=17|issue=1|pages=11–13|pmid=5371044}}</ref> and ''Experimental Eye Research''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Perkins|first1=E. S.|last2=Saiduzzafar|first2=Hamida|date=1969-10-01|title=The effect of plasmin on the facility of outflow in cynomolgus monkeys|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014483569800035|journal=Experimental Eye Research|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=386–396|doi=10.1016/S0014-4835(69)80003-5|pmid=4243139|issn=0014-4835}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Saiduzzafar|first=Hamida|date=1970-10-01|title=Tissue fibrinolytic activity in the anterior segment of the eye, as related to aqueous outflow|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014483570800410|journal=Experimental Eye Research|language=en|volume=10|issue=2|pages=297–301|doi=10.1016/S0014-4835(70)80041-0|pmid=4249557|issn=0014-4835}}</ref>

Saiduzzafar was a member of the [[British Medical Association]], the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, the [[All India Ophthalmological Society]], the National Society for Prevention of Blindness, and many other organizations. She was a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]]. She wrote an autobiography, published posthumously in 1996.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />

Saiduzzafar was known to be an avid birdwatcher, lectured on birds, and contributed articles to a birdwatchers' newsletter, and to the journal of the [[Bombay Natural History Society]].<ref name=":1" />

== Personal life ==
Hamida Saiduzzafar died in 1988, from a [[stroke]],<ref name=":1" /> in her mid-sixties.<ref name=":0" />

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[[Category:1921 births]]
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[[Category:Indian ophthalmologists]]
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