Professor (Dr.) Mehra holds the William Harvey Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. and was the founding Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2013-2019). He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation from 2010 to 2020, and President of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in 2008 and Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) in 2016. He has also been conferred an Honorary Master’s degree from Harvard University, earned a certificate in Executive Leadership from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Health Economics and Management from the London School of Economics (as a Braunwald Scholar). In 2024, he was received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the HFSA.

His scholarly work focuses on Advanced Heart Failure, with practice defining contributions to the fields of cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Mehra is regarded as one of the leading global experts in these areas, with his groundbreaking research, innovations, and contributions to practice guidelines helping to shape the future of advanced heart failure care.