Kheradvar has a joint faculty appointment in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

M.D., Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2000
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2006
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 2007

Dr. Kheradvar’s research is focused on cardiovascular engineering with emphasis on cardiac mechanics, cardiac imaging and cardiovascular devices. Some of the projects at his lab are: design and development of artificial heart valves (either surgical or percutaneous), multiscale modeling of congenital heart disease, development of a 3D Echo Particle Image Velocimetry system for assessment of right ventricle and devising new non-invasive indices for quantitative evaluation of diastolic dysfunction.