Eiman Jahangir’s daily clinical interests are in prevention of cardiovascular disease with a focus on cardiac-oncology. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Nuclear Cardiology, and Echocardiography. He was the founder and co-director of the Cardio-Oncology Clinic at Ochsner Medical Center in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and spearheading the cardio-oncology service. He has published over 40 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, many on the topic of cardio-oncology and has served on the American College of Cardiology’s Round Table in cardio-oncology.

He is also a medical educator and focuses on mentoring and coaching medical students and housestaff through their training, preparing them for their future careers as doctors. He is actively involved in various aspects of the medical education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Eiman is also interested in human space flight and interviewed twice as a finalist for the Astronaut Candidate position at NASA (2009 and 2013). He believes that human space flight is important for the scientific and technological discoveries that are made through the endeavor, while also fulfilling our innate need to explore.