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photo Siamak Salavatian, PhD

Cardiology

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Secondary Appointment

Director of Neuromodulation Research

Email: salavatian@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-5911
Contact
Office: BST W1445, 200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-383-5911
Fax:
E-mail: salavatian@pitt.edu
Education and Training
Education
PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, 2015
MEng (Electrical Engineering), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2011
BS (Computer Science), Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2007
Training
Postdoctoral, University of California, Los Angeles (Neurocardiology), 2018
Research Interest
Dr. Salavatian is a scientist in the field of neurocardiology and neurophysiology. He received his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Montreal (UdeM), with postdoctoral training at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Cardiac Arrhythmia Center. He has a Master of Engineering in Computer and Electrical Engineering and he has applied engineering tools in his medical research. His main area of research is to investigate the neural remodeling that occurs in the autonomic nervous system in heart diseases and assess potential cardiac neuromodulation therapies.

• Autonomic nervous system remodeling in cardiac diseases
• Neuromodulation therapies for heart disorders
• The role of afferent neurotransmission in modulation of the efferent outflow
• Single intrinsic cardiac neuron modeling
• Cardiac electrophysiology
• Machine learning techniques
• Biomedical signal processing
Publications
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