Robert R Attaran, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI, MBBS

Dr. Attaran studied as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, Canada. He attended medical school at the University of Sheffield, UK, with Honors. He completed his internal medicine residency and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona before completing his interventional cardiology fellowship at Yale University.

Dr. Attaran is the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program and the Endovascular Fellowship Training Program.

His interests outside interventional cardiology include treatments for peripheral arterial and venous disease.

He is involved in a number of national and international research studies in cardiovascular disease therapies. He has served on the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data Registry, Research and Publications Committee. He is a member of the Vascular Disease Council and Publications Committee of the .

Dr. Attaran is Chair of the Chronic Disease Guidelines Committee and Working Group of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.

He is on the Board of the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine. He serves on the American Venous Forum Early Career Course and Committee. He serves on the American Venous Forum Newsletter and the Venous and Lymphatic Medicine Workgroup.