{{short description|Indian ophthalmologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2022}} {{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 | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|||1921|7|16}} | death_place = | occupation = Ophthalmologist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse(s) = | relatives = Zohra Sehgal (cousin) <br> Uzra Butt (cousin) <br> Rashid Jahan (sister-in-law)<br/>Sheikh Abdullah (father-in-law)<br>Begum Khurshid Mirza (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|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021023620/https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/05/01/remembering-dr-hamida-saiduzzafar-a-woman-of-substance-and-birdwatcher-par-excellence/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her father was a physician and medical school professor in Lucknow. She earned a medical degree from 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/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809052528/http://www.sangatreview.org/blog/2014/11/25/rashid-jahan/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=9 August 2018|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 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|url-access=subscription}}</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|url-access=subscription}}</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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saiduzzafar, Hamida}} Category:1921 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Indian ophthalmologists Category:Indian women scientists Category:Indian scientists Category:Academic staff of Aligarh Muslim University Category:People from Nainital