Ali Javaheri, MD, PhD

Ali Javaheri, MD, PhD

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine

Clinical Expertise

Heart complications from chemotherapy

Research Interest

How lipoproteins regulate cardiac injury responses, with a focus on the role of chemotherapeutic toxicity

Education

  • 2008: MD, University of Chicago
  • 2006: PhD, molecular genetics and cell biology, University of Chicago

Training

  • 2016 - 2017: Research fellow, Washington University, St. Louis
  • 2013 - 2015: Research fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • 2012 - 2013: Fellow, advanced heart failure transplant, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2010 - 2012: Fellow, cardiology, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2008 - 2010: Resident, internal medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Board Certification

  • 2016: American Board of Internal Medicine, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology
  • 2015: American Board of Internal Medicine, cardiovascular disease, 2015
  • 2012: American Board of Internal Medicine

Selected Research Publications

Cardiac radiation improves ventricular function in mice and humans with cardiomyopathy.
  • Pedersen LN, Valenzuela Ripoll C, Ozcan M, [...] Javaheri A
  • Med (N Y) 2023
Sustained alternate-day fasting potentiates doxorubicin cardiotoxicity.
  • Ozcan M, Guo Z, Valenzuela Ripoll C, [...] Javaheri A
  • Cell Metab 2023
Apolipoprotein M Attenuates Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity and Lysosomal Injury.
  • Guo Z, Valenzuela Ripoll C, Picataggi A, [...] Javaheri A
  • JACC Basic Transl Sci 2023
Proteasomal Degradation of TRAF2 Mediates Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Doxorubicin-Cardiomyopathy.
  • Dhingra R, Rabinovich-Nikitin I, Rothman S, [...] Javaheri A, Kirshenbaum LA
  • Circulation 2022

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Contact Information

  • Washington University Medical Campus

    Gary C. Werths Building at Siteman Cancer Center
    4500 Forest Park Avenue
    Saint Louis, MO 63108

    Center for Advanced Medicine at Siteman Cancer Center
    4921 Parkview Place
    Saint Louis, MO 63110

    Parkview Tower
    1 Parkview Place
    Saint Louis, MO 63110

    S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy Center
    224 Euclid Ave.
    Saint Louis, MO 63110

    Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
    1 Children's Place
    St. Louis, MO 63110

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