Dr. Kheradvar is a cardiovascular scientist and engineer with established track record in cardiovascular engineering, heart valves, cardiovascular vortex formation, cardiac imaging and biomechanics. Dr. Kheradvar received his M.D. from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech in 2006. With over 17 years of experience in advanced cardiovascular technology, Dr. Kheradvar's career has been focused on science and innovation driven by unmet patient needs, and with a focus on mitigating cardiovascular diseases and developing novel high impact technologies mainly for structural heart diseases and to facilitate cardiovascular imaging. His lab has been funded by grants from NSF, NIH, AHA and many other foundations.Dr. Kheradvar has driven novel and evolving innovation particularly in the field of heart valves and cardiac imaging. With over 43 issued U.S. patents and over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, Dr. Kheradvar has created a pipeline of successful products from the concept stage, and led them into winning technologies currently at preclinical and clinical stages. Dr. Kheradvar leads an interdisciplinary teams of engineers, clinicians and trainees to boost bench-to-bedside translation of science for the benefit of patients and society. Additionally, through his career, he has offered clinical and technical guidance to fortune 500 companies. In these advisory roles, he has provided direction and technical support to project teams to execute at enterprise-level. With over 120 conference proceedings and more than 100 invited lectures in key international scientific conferences, Dr. Kheradvar has a visionary grasp on structural heart technology landscape and is well informed of up to date clinical trial outcomes.Dr. Kheradvar is the author of two books (1) Principles of Heart Valve Engineering, and (2) Vortex Formation in the Cardiovascular System) . He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) American Society of Echocardiography, and American Heart Association uniquely elected by two councils of Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia.