Yashar Kalani

Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship awarded in 2006 to pursue an MD in Medicine at Stanford University.

Yashar Kalani is an immigrant from Iran.

About Yashar Kalani

DR. YASHAR KALANI is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Yashar was born in Tehran, Iran, his family settled in the US in 1996.

After completing a combined BS/MS at UCLA, Yashar began doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology. Upon completion of his doctorate he matriculated at Stanford University School of Medicine where he concurrently completed his MD and postdoctoral training in stem cell biology. While at Stanford he won fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, American Heart Association and the American Medical Association. Yashar completed clinical training at the Barrow Neurological Institute and was a Murdoch Fellow at the Center for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in Sydney.

Yashar and his colleagues were recently awarded a 5-year, $4 million dollar grant from the NIH to investigate the role of extracellular RNAs as biomarkers of stroke.

Education

BS in Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
MS in Chemistry-Organic, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
MS in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
MD in Medicine, Stanford University

Professional Fields

Medicine and Healthcare

Work History

Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Physician-Scientist, Barrow Neurological Institute
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Utah School of Medicine