Dr. Mehra is the William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He also served as founding Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Center (2013-2019) at the Brigham and was Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, which rose to #1 ranked journal in its field under his leadership (2010-2020). Dr. Mehra is the only individual in the world to have been appointed as President of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT, 2008) and President of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA, 2016), the two premier societies in the field of advanced heart disease in the world. In addition, Dr. Mehra has been conferred an Honorary Master's degree from Harvard University. Dr. Mehra has completed a certificate in Executive leadership from the Harvard Business School and also earned a Master of Science in Health Economics and Management at the London School of Economics in 2018, a degree earned through his designation as a Braunwald Scholar.