Mandeep R. Mehra

Dr. Mehra is the William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, a
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Executive Director of the Center for
Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in
Boston, Massachusetts. He also served as founding Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular
Center (2013-2019) at the Brigham and was Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Heart and Lung
Transplantation, which rose to #1 ranked journal in its field under his leadership (2010-2020).
Dr. Mehra is the only individual to have been appointed as President (2008) of the International
Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and President of the Heart Failure Society of
America (HFSA), the two premier societies in the field of advanced heart disease. He has
authored over 500 scholarly papers with a specific focus on Advanced Heart Failure and among
some highlights, discovered the obesity paradox in heart failure, described the natural history
of cardiac allograft vasculopathy after transplantation, established the pivotal international
guidelines for selection and care of transplant patients, defined the role of new
immunosuppression to improve transplant outcomes and helped introduce genomic based
biomarkers for evaluating cardiac allograft rejection. In recent years his research focus shifted
to evaluation of novel left ventricular assist devices (“artificial heart pumps”) engineered to
reduce the burden of adverse effects and allow use in broader populations of patients. This
work published in the New England Journal of Medicine has resulted in the introduction of
novel therapy for advanced heart failure patients and its practice changing implications have
been seen around the world in advanced heart failure. Dr. Mehra has a certificate in Executive
leadership from the Harvard Business School and also completed a Master of Science in Health
Economics and Management at the London School of Economics in 2018, a degree earned
through his designation as a “Braunwald Scholar”.