Dr. Hematti is professor of medicine, pediatrics, surgery, and biomedical engineering in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is a hematopoietic stem cell transplant physician and serves as director of clinical hematopoietic cell processing laboratory, which collects and processes bone marrow and stem cells for transplantation at UW Health, academic medical center and health system for the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Hematti completed a combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and a clinical hematology and research fellowship at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His clinical research interest is in the use of novel cellular immuno-therapies for hematological malignancies, including the use of cells produced in the bone marrow, specifically macrophages, in regenerative medicine. Dr. Hematti earned his medical degree at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.