{"id":10738,"date":"2017-10-04T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:26:53","slug":"dr-hooman-baghaie-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/dr-hooman-baghaie-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Hooman Baghaie is here to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10739\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10739 size-large lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Hooman Baghaie\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-50x75.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-127x190.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-70x105.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10739 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Hooman Baghaie\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-50x75.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-127x190.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie-70x105.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DrHoomanBaghaie.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Richard Whitfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>In high-achieving refugee dentist Dr Hooman Baghaie, Iran&#8217;s loss is Australia&#8217;s gain. By Andrew McMillen<\/h2>\n<p>When he was 12 years old, Dr Hooman Baghaie\u2019s family left their comfortable, middle-class life in Iran behind. This decision by his parents was made out of love and sacrifice: as members of a religious minority, they had experienced discrimination and persecution. The last slight was when their eldest son was denied entry to a college for gifted children after his father, Zia, had volunteered to the school\u2019s administration that the family were followers of the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed faith. Suddenly, Hooman\u2019s academic gifts were seen in a different light.<\/p>\n<p>There was no place for Hooman there, his parents were told, despite his excellent results on the entry exam. Nor was there a place in Iran for the Baghaie family, who had tired of this persecution. They knew there would only be more hurdles for their bright children in Iran, and they knew that other Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00eds had been jailed because of their religious affiliations. The eldest son\u2019s rejection mirrored an earlier disappointment experienced by his mother, Betsy, who was expelled from medical school in 1988 on the basis of her faith. Like mother, like son.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was in thumbing through her copy of <i>Gray\u2019s Anatomy<\/i> that the seed for Hooman\u2019s career was planted. Within a decade, the Iranian-born refugee would be safe and secure in Australia while immersed in studying oral health, and later dentistry, while on a path to fulfil the inclusive, community-minded spirit on which his faith was based.<\/p><div class=\"bitem-article-desktop-720x300-in-text\" id=\"bitem-651021311\"><!-- Bite 720x300 [async] -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">if (!window.AdButler){(function(){var s = document.createElement(\"script\"); s.async = true; s.type = \"text\/javascript\";s.src = 'https:\/\/servedby.engagemedia.com.au\/app.js';var n = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; n.parentNode.insertBefore(s, n);}());}<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\nvar AdButler = AdButler || {}; AdButler.ads = AdButler.ads || [];\r\nvar abkw = window.abkw || '';\r\nvar plc705185 = window.plc705185 || 0;\r\ndocument.write('<'+'div id=\"placement_705185_'+plc705185+'\"><\\\/'+'div>');\r\nAdButler.ads.push({handler: function(opt){ AdButler.register(165450, 705185, [720,300], 'placement_705185_'+opt.place, opt); }, opt: { place: plc705185++, keywords: abkw, domain: 'servedby.engagemedia.com.au', click:'CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER' }});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The family\u2019s path to Australia was not simple or easy. They left behind two houses, two cars and his father\u2019s well-established career in refrigeration engineering. The five of them\u2014Zia, Betsy, Hooman and his two younger sisters, Helya and Hasti\u2014spent nine months in limbo at an apartment in Kayseri, Turkey. They were asylum seekers, and on arrival, Zia went to the United Nations office to explain their situation. After carefully reviewing their case and confirming the truth of their allegations, the Baghaie family were awarded humanitarian visas to Australia, since Betsy had family members who lived in Geelong.<\/p>\n<p>Now 26 and living on the Gold Coast, Hooman Baghaie tells this story over cups of Persian tea and a plate of walnut biscuits. He lives in a high-rise apartment building in Southport that overlooks the ocean, and each morning, his bedroom is lit by a spectacular sunrise. Two days per week, he works as a dentist at a small clinic in Helensvale; during the remaining weekdays, he attends nearby Griffith University while studying his first year of a degree in medicine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>\u201cI didn\u2019t get those teen years. When we came to Australia, I had to do the family tax return at the age of 13. I had to go to my own parent-teacher interviews, and my sisters\u2019. My dad had to sit exams to get the necessary qualifications to convert his licenses and accreditation from Iran to Australia, to be able to work as a refrigeration mechanic; as a 15-year-old, I\u2019d have to help him read university-level engineering textbooks.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His interest in the oral cavity has widened since he completed a Bachelor of Oral Health at the University of Melbourne in 2011, then moved north to dedicate himself to a Bachelor of Dental Science, which he completed in 2016 as a valedictorian at the University of Queensland. After medicine, he plans to specialise in maxillofacial surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Newly married in 2017, Hooman shares the Southport apartment with his wife, Maya, who works as a nutritionist. The pair share their Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed faith and are devoted to fulfilling its tenet of improving the lives of others: she by advising people on their diet, and he by tending to their oral health needs. Theirs is a service-oriented partnership that looks outward, and asks: how can we help?<\/p>\n<h3>Big dreams<\/h3>\n<p>As the eldest child of refugee parents, Hooman Baghaie has always felt an acute sense of responsibility to forge his own path. It was through attending a non-prestigious high school in Geelong, where expectations on students were low, that he began to take charge. \u201cI realised that I had dreams, but they were my dreams,\u201d he says. \u201cNobody else was going to help me. It was up to me to get up early and smash them out, if I wanted to achieve them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dentistry did not appeal from a young age. He enjoyed science and maths at high school, but working on the human mouth seemed icky, to say the least. It was a fortuitous placement at a private dental clinic as a teenager that changed his perception. He saw how the dentists distanced themselves from the oral cavity through layers of protective equipment, and he saw how skilfully they worked with their hands. He saw how precisely dental procedures were planned and performed, and he was glad that he had followed his father\u2019s suggestion to try the placement, despite his reservations. If he didn\u2019t like it, Zia said, he didn\u2019t have to go back. But he did like it, and that week-long informal placement at the clinic owned by a family friend became the basis for his career aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Once he got his head around the English language, school became a breeze. He finished his secondary education at the end of Year 11, aged 17, having undergone an advanced study program. In a secular society, Hooman Baghaie excelled, as his parents had always suspected he would.<\/p>\n<p>If it seems as though this young man has squeezed more out of his life than many other 26-year-olds, you are not wrong. \u201cI didn\u2019t get those teen years,\u201d he says, glancing out at the balcony as the sun sets over Southport. \u201cWhen we came to Australia, I had to do the family tax return at the age of 13. I had to go to my own parent-teacher interviews, and my sisters\u2019. My Dad had to sit exams to get the necessary qualifications to convert his licenses and accreditation from Iran to Australia, to be able to work as a refrigeration mechanic; as a 15-year-old, I\u2019d have to help him read university-level engineering textbooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Self-reliance<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWith all of that, it taught me to grow up really fast, and become self-reliant very quickly,\u201d says Hooman Baghaie. He was heavily invested in competitive soccer throughout his adolescence, but after discussing with his parents, he decided to put his on-field talents aside in order to focus on his senior schooling. A career in health care was far more dependable than chancing it as a professional soccer player.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>\u201cI realised that I had dreams, but they were my dreams. Nobody else was going to help me. It was up to me to get up early and smash them out, if I wanted to achieve them.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t all schoolwork. Hooman fondly recalls playing his fair share of computer games such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, like many of his schoolmates. But his maturity beyond his years is evident in the fact that he did not rebel against the serious, studious path before him. Instead, he embraced it. \u201cIt just made sense to me,\u201d he says with a shrug. \u201cVideo games will always be there.\u201d He gestures at the couch in the living room and points out there\u2019s no television in front of it, nor an internet connection. Instead, home is a place for Hooman and Maya to spend time together, free from distractions.<\/p>\n<p>While studying at UQ\u2019s dental school, Hooman volunteered with the Royal Flying Doctor Service\u2019s outback oral health program, and also travelled to Cambodia and East Timor to provide much-needed dental expertise in communities where oral health and hygiene are lacking. The University of Queensland funded these trips, and these experiences only solidified Hooman\u2019s devotion to helping others\u2014not just through treating symptoms, but by empowering the underprivileged through preventative measures such as education.<\/p>\n<h3>A different lens<\/h3>\n<p>Though he grew up fast and has lived his young life at an accelerated pace, Hooman\u2019s priorities have begun to change of late. His marriage to Maya is an important factor in this realisation. After years of \u201cburning the candle at both ends\u201d\u2014a familiar phrase that he learned at university, and relishes saying with a smile\u2014he is becoming more mindful of sharing his schedule. \u201cI invest a lot of time in my marriage, because I\u2019ll be a husband for the rest of my life,\u201d he says. \u201cI used to love being productive, and ticking off to-do lists. Now, I\u2019m learning to look at the world with a different lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Melbourne, his father now runs a small air-conditioning company, while his mother oversees a family day-care business. They were overjoyed that their eldest son was a valedictorian on graduating with a Bachelor of Dental Science last year. His outstanding achievements offer living proof that their enormous sacrifices, made out of love, were not made in vain. In the Baghaie family, it is clear that Iran\u2019s loss was Australia\u2019s resounding gain.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, one of Hooman\u2019s favourite hobbies is to take a fishing rod and lure down to the nearby ocean, and throw in a line. When we meet in early August, that\u2019s just what he did the night before, as the near-full moon hung in the sky above him. This simple act is a calming, centring influence in his life. Last night, he didn\u2019t catch a thing; in fact, he lost a lure in the process of catching nothing. With a smile, he says, \u201cBut that\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In high-achieving refugee dentist Dr Hooman Baghaie, Iran&#8217;s loss is Australia&#8217;s gain. By Andrew McMillen When he was 12 years old, Dr Hooman Baghaie\u2019s family left their comfortable, middle-class life in Iran behind. 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