Alireza A. Shamshirsaz is an expert in fetal surgery and in the treatment of abnormally adherent placentas. He has pioneered novel surgical techniques for neural tube defects and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, and he was part of the team that performed the first successful fetoscopic repair to treat spina bifida in the U.S. He received his MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1999. He completed an internship at SUNY Buffalo in 2006 and a residency at the University of Iowa in 2009. He held a fellowship at the University of Connecticut in 2012 and a fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine in 2014. He is board-certified in OB-GYN and maternal–fetal medicine. He serves as Director of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Care Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, part of Harvard Medical School. He came to Boston Children’s from Texas Children’s Hospital, serving as Chief of the Fetal Therapy and Surgery Division, Co-Chair of the Fetal Center steering committee, and Co-Director of the perinatal surgery fellowship and maternal-fetal surgery program. He currently serves as a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Previously, he has served as a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, as an Honorary Visiting Professor at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and he has fulfilled an adjunct appointment at Stanford University School of Medicine.
