Aravind Swaminathan , MD

Fellow

Stanford Medical Center
Stanford, CA

St. Jude Fellow, 2009-10
Aravind was born in Chennai, India and after coming to the United States at age three, was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began his educational training at Duke University where he majored in biomedical engineering and completed a National Science Foundation sponsored fellowship in the Experimental Electrophysiology Laboratory.

From there, Aravind moved to Philadelphia where he attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a dedicated internship at Boston Scientific/EPI in Santa Clara as an active member of the preclinical and clinical groups. While there, he performed internal device testing and failure mode analysis and eventually published a clinical trial substudy evaluating the effect of vessel size on the efficacy of distal protection devices.

Aravind has since completed residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and made the move to Palo Alto in 2006 to become a Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine fellow at Stanford. He is currently combining clinical training in advanced cardiac imaging with collaborative research investigating the use of high intensity focused ultrasound to noninvasively create intracardiac ablations under real-time MRI guidance.

Aravind's ongoing fascination with biomedical innovation has lead him to the Biodesign Program through which he plans on achieving his goal of developing important novel medical technology to improve patient care.