Dr. Javaheri is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and sleep physician at the Bethesda North Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. He is internationally known for his research on various sleep disorders including sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease, with emphasis on heart failure, opioids-associated sleep apnea, and complex sleep apnea.
He completed his clinical and research fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He joined University of Cincinnati in 1983 and established a clinical and research sleep lab at Veteran’s Administration medical center where he has done extensive research in the areas of sleep-related breathing disorders and cardiovascular diseases. These research studies have been published in many peer–reviewed journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Thorax, American Journal of Medicine, European Heart Journal, Journal of Clinical sleep Medicine, Journal of Sleep, Chest and American Journal of Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine.