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680 Centre Street 
Brockton, MA 02302
Phone: 508-941-7700
Fax: 508-941-6334
+ Medical Director of the Cardiac Echocardiography Department
+ Medical Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center
+ Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in Department of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center
Clinical Specialty: Non-Invasive Cardiology. Cardiac imaging
Medical School: Tehran University (1997)
Graduate School: PhD. McGill University, Montreal in Cardiovascular Genetics. Dr. Nikpoor was the first to discover a gene which was responsible for a rare but potentially fatal-side effect to a common group of cardiac medications (ACE inhibitor induced angioedema) (published 2005)
Residency: Internal Medicine. Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia (2005)
Fellowship: Cardiology. Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia (2008)
Others/Advance studies:
Advanced Cardiac Imaging Techniques and Echocardiography. University of California, San Francisco and Tufts Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts (2007, 2008)
Certifications:
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine
National Board of Echocardiography
American Board of Nuclear Cardiology
Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC)
Clinical Interests: Clinical Cardiology and Advanced Cardiac imaging techniques
Languages: English, Persian
Research links
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1275610/
http://www.ahjonline.com/article/S0002-8703%2801%2900663-9/abstract?source=aemf
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