Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow
Director of Cardiovascular Research Group
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Computing and Software
School of Biomedical Engineering
School of Computational Science and Engineering
Thrombosis & Atherosclerosis Research Institute
Institute for Research on Aging
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Research Affiliate Faculty
Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Editorial Board
Scientific Reports, a Nature Group journal
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Frontiers in Medical Technology
Lab News
Prof. Motamed will join TCT 2023 as a Faculty.
Dr. Motamed as the Guest Editor of “Computational Fluid Dynamics for the Study of Cardiovascular Disease” of the Journal of Scientific Reports -Nature invites you to submit your research.
Dr. Motamed as the Lead Guest Editor of “Novel computational fluid dynamics methods for diagnosis, monitoring, prediction, and personalized treatment for cardiovascular disease and cancer metastasis” of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology invites you to submit your research.
Dr. Motamed will join the SB3C 2023 conference and will chair Cardiovascular Devices and Design session.
Dr. Motamed will give an invited talk at CONVERGENCE BETWEEN HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL CARE. AIMING TO PRECISION CARDIOLOGY entitled “The critical role of diagnostic, monitoring, and predictive tools in patients with valvular disease and TAVR” on November 23, 2022, at 5:15 pm (CET). Please register if you are interested.
Prof. Motamed will chair a session on “Novel methods to advance diagnostic and treatment value of medical imaging for valvular disease and their intervention” at CMBBE 2023 Symposium. Submit your abstract if you are interested.
Dr. Motamed was invited by IEEE to give a talk on “The Critical Role of Computational Modeling in Future Diagnostic, Monitoring, and Predictive Tools for Cardiovascular Diseases” on November 29, 2022. Please register if you are interested.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/330836
The Editorial, developed by Prof. Zahra K. Motamed (McMaster), Prof. Danny Bluestein (Stony Brook University), Prof. Juan Carlos del Alamo (University of Washington), Prof. Jolanda Wentzel (Erasmus University Rotterdam), and Prof. Elazer Edelman (MIT) for a special Biomechanics issue on “Novel Methods to Advance Diagnostic and Treatment Value of Medical Imaging for Cardiovascular Disease” of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, is now online.
Dr. Motamed will present “An ultrasound-based diagnostic, monitoring, and predictive framework for patients with valvular disease and TAVR” at the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (Distinguished Lecturer Series), Michigan, USA on Friday (October 7, 2022) at 3 pm.
https://blogs.mtu.edu/icc/2022/08/icc-distinguished-lecture-zahra-motamed-mcmaster-university/
Congratulations to Dr. Yue Wang, third Ph.D. from Motamed Lab, for her fully successful Ph.D. defense.
Congratulations to Dr. Seyedvahid Khodaei, second Ph.D. from Motamed Lab, for his fully successful Ph.D. defense with several publications in top-tier interdisciplinary journals.
Congratulations to Massoud Ebrahimi, for his fully successful MASc defense.
We welcome Sina Kazemi and Amirabbas Arani, new Ph.D. students, to the Cardiovascular Research Group.
Dr. Motamed will present this week in the SB3C 2022 conference and will co-chair the session on Emerging Methods in Biofluid Mechanics.
Dr. Motamed joined the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports – Nature.
Benjamin Tomka was awarded prestigious NSERC USRA. Congratulations!
Non-invasive monitoring and diagnostic framework present a breakthrough in cardiological treatment. Full story of this development by Motamed lab:
Dr. Motamed awarded (2021) John R. Evans Leaders Fund and Ontario Research Fund on “Development of diagnostic and predictive tools for cardiovascular disease”.
Congratulations to Dr. Reza Sadeghi, first Ph.D. from Motamed Lab, for his fully successful Ph.D. defense with high-impact journal publications.
Dr. Motamed interview with StarFish Medical and Vivitro Labs Inc.
Motamed lab will present this week in the virtual Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport (SB3C) Conference. Dr. Motamed will co-chair the Patient-specific Flow and Physiology I in SB3C.
Louis Garber and Mason Kadem were awarded prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations!
Krishna Gandhi was awarded prestigious NSERC USRA. Congratulations!
We welcome Julia Bauer, Krishna Gandhi, Mohamed Ali Daeian, Giulia Di Nardo, Mohammad Riaz and Lara Barbarawi to Cardiovascular Research Group.
Dr. Motamed was awarded the honorific Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow at McMaster (2021-2024).
Dr. Motamed as the Lead Guest Editor of “Novel Methods to Advance Diagnostic and Treatment Value of Medical Imaging for Cardiovascular Disease” of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology invites you to submit your research.
We welcome Louis Garber, Mohamed Khaled Abdelkhalek and Mason Kadem as the first BME graduate students in the lab.
We welcome Massoud Ebrahimi Dehshali to the Cardiovascular Research Group.
Reza Sadeghi, Seyedvahid Khodaei and Nikrouz Bahadormanesh: Congratulations on passing Ph.D. candidacy exam!
Dr. Motamed and her team receive NSERC funds to help physicians predict outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease. "Full story: https://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/news/mcmaster-engineers-help-physicians-predict-outcomes-patients-cardiovascular-disease/"
Dr. Motamed awarded an NSERC fund (December 2019) for "Developing a patient specific predictive tool and a regulatory testing machine for heart valve replacement"
Motamed Lab in "Full story: CSME"
Prof. Motamed interview with Industry Liaison Office at McMaster (Nov 2018) “More details: Innovation Showcase researcher spotlight”
Prof. Motamed awarded a research funding (Oct 2018) “Full story: Big Ideas"
Dr. Motamed presents at APS 2018, Division of Fluid Dynamics "Towards personalized cardiology for coarctation: computational-mechanics and imaged-based diagnostic frameworks"