Amir Kaviani M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Kaviani was born in Teheran, Iran in 1971 and emigrated to the United States shortly after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He grew up in Newport Beach, California and after graduating from high school, moved to the east coast where he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate studies majoring in Neuroscience with honors in 1992, and attended medical school at Boston University. After graduating from medical school, he began his internship in General Surgery at The University of California San Francisco- East Bay, and completed his senior residency and chief residency in General Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

Dr. Kaviani completed the compulsory two-year research component of his general surgery residency at Harvard Medical School at the center for minimally invasive surgery under the direction of Dr. Moritz Ziegler, the chairman and chief of surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. His work focused mostly on stem cell isolation and tissue engineering. At the completion of his general surgery residency, Dr. Kaviani left for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to complete a fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery. He was recruited to join the Association of South Bay Surgeons in 2006 and his interests include open and endovascular aortic aneurysm repair as well as endovascular peripheral interventions including carotid stenting. He is board certified in general surgery and board eligible in vascular surgery. Dr. Kaviani has authored over 30 peer reviewed publications and numerous book chapters.

These are some of the diseases that Doctor Kaviani treats:

Advanced Endovascular Interventions, Aneurysms, Arterial Evaluations, Carotid Duplex Examination, Dialysis Access Surgery, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Varicose Vein Disease, Venous Doppler Evaluation, Venous Reflux Examination