Career
He has published around 60 major articles in prominent Iranian and international medical journals, and has for 40 years been associated with Tehran University. Kamalian received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Tehran University in 1958, completing a residency in Anatomical Pathology at the same institution in 1964. Remaining at the university he served as a lecturer in Anatomical until 1968, before moving to the University of Wisconsin, United States of America, from 1969–1974, where he obtained his specialty board in Anatomical Pathology and his sub-specialty board in Neuropathology.
He has been a full professor of pathology at Tehran University since 1974.