Roxana Mehran is an Iranian-American cardiologist and Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Medicine at the

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. She is known for her work in

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Early life and education

Mehran was born in Tehran, Iran, before coming to the United States. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from

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in 1983. She earned her M.D. from

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in Grenada, West Indies in 1987. From 1988 until 1991, Mehran completed her residency training in the internal medicine program at

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in Hartford, CT, where she served as chief resident. She completed

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(1991 to 1994) and

(1994 until 1995) fellowships at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Medical career

Mehran held appointments at

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and

Washington Hospital Center MedStar Washington Hospital Center is the largest private hospital in Washington, D.C. A member of MedStar Health, the not-for-profit Hospital Center is licensed for 926 beds. Health services in primary, secondary and tertiary care are offer ...

before moving to

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. As of 2021, she is a professor of medicine, cardiology, and population health science and policy at the

, a position she has held since 2010. In 2019, she was honored as the Mount Sinai Professor in Cardiovascular Clinical Research and Outcomes. Mehran advocates for women in medicine with a focus on her field of cardiology, including a study in ''

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'' that showed a lack of gender-specific research related to women's heart health. She co-founded Women as One, an organization dedicated to the advancement of women physicians, and in 2020, she was named lead commissioner for ''The Lancet''s Commission on Women and Cardiovascular Disease. She was a founding physician of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York City, in 2000. In July 2025, it was announced that Mehran would assume the role of president of the

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beginning in March 2026.

Selected publications

As of 2021, Mehran has been cited over 200,000 times and has an h-index of 163. * * * *

Awards and honors

*Bernadine Healy Leadership in Women's CV Disease Distinguished Award (2017) *Master interventionalists of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (2017) *Nanette Wenger Award for Excellence in Medical Leadership (2018) *Andreas Gruntzig Award and Silver Medal of the European Society of Cardiology (2019) *Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2019)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mehran, Roxana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Physicians from Tehran Women cardiologists Iranian cardiologists Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty 21st-century Iranian women 20th-century Iranian women New York University alumni 21st-century Iranian women physicians 21st-century Iranian physicians