Mandeep R. Mehra

Prof. Mehra serves as Medical Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and as Executive Director of the Collaborative Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Prof. Mehra has authored and published more than 500 scholarly papers with a specific focus on advanced heart failure including evaluation of novel left ventricular assist devices engineered to reduce the burden of adverse effects and allow use in broader populations of patients. This work, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has resulted in the introduction of novel therapy for advanced heart failure patients. Prof. Mehra is a Past-President of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and also past-president of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA).