Dr. Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami
Assistant Professor and Lead Invesgitor
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
- +1 (857) 500-7308
- frikhtegarnezami@bwh.harvard.edu
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
15 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Our research lab is dedicated to using computational methods, in vitro, and ex/in vivo experiments to tackle challenges in cardiology and cardiac surgery. Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami, our team integrates multiple disciplines of engineering, computer science, and mathematical modeling to achieve a mechanistic understanding of several vascular diseases. Dr. Nezami is an assistant professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Cardiac Surgery, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT. With expertise in fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics, mass transport, and image processing, Dr. Nezami's lab assesses the performance and optimizes the design of various medical devices such as stents, prosthetic valves, endovascular implants, mechanical assist devices, and life support systems. The lab's tools provide reliable predictive means and diagnostic tools for clinicians and regulatory officials to update clinical therapy and surgical guidelines.
Education
- Bachelor: Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran (08/2004 – 01/2007)
- Master: Sharif University of Technology, Iran (01/2007 – 10/2013)
- Doctorate: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich (Hemodynamics and drug delivery in stented arteries) (10/2013)
Postdoctoral Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, HST Program, MIT (10/2014 – 02/2016)
- Postdoctoral Associate: Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, HST Program, MIT (03/2016 – 09/2019)
Faculty Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor: Harvard Medical School, Department of Surgery (10/2022 – present)
- Research Scientist: Harvard Medical School, Department of Surgery (10/2019 – 12/2020)
- Assistant Professor: Aerospace Engineering, MIT (07/2021 – present)
Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions
- Lead Investigator: Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (12/2020 – present)
Thesis Advisors
- Dimos Poulikakos & Vartan Kurtcuoglu: Computational physiology and cardiovascular biomechanics
Mentorship
Mentor: Elazer R. Edelman
- Bioinformatics
- Computational cardiology
- Drug delivery