Pedram Parva, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Parva has trained and worked in three different medical systems (Iran, France, and US) and has versatile clinical experience. He is also a part of the Framingham Heart Study which evaluates the relationship between the number of perivascular spaces and risk factors for brain disease. He received his degree from the Iran University of Medical Science School of Medicine.

Publications

  • Published 2/27/2025

    Ekenze O, Seiler S, Pinheiro A, DeCarli C, Parva P, Habes M, Charidimou A, Maillard P, Beiser A, Seshadri S, Demissie S, Romero JR. Relation of MRI visible perivascular spaces with global and regional brain structural connectivity measures: The Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Neurobiol Aging. 2025 Jun; 150:1-8. PMID: 40043467.

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  • Published 11/19/2024

    Rustom F, Moroze E, Parva P, Ogmen H, Yazdanbakhsh A. Deep learning and transfer learning for brain tumor detection and classification. Biol Methods Protoc. 2024; 9(1):bpae080. PMID: 39659666.

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  • Published 9/14/2023

    Rodriguez Lara F, Toro AR, Pinheiro A, Demissie S, Ekenze O, Martinez O, Parva P, Charidimou A, Ghosh S, DeCarli C, Seshadri S, Habes M, Maillard P, Romero JR. Relation of MRI-Visible Perivascular Spaces and Other MRI Markers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Brain Sci. 2023 Sep 14; 13(9). PMID: 37759924.

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  • Published 4/17/2023

    Duperron MG, Knol MJ, Le Grand Q, Evans TE, Mishra A, Tsuchida A, Roshchupkin G, Konuma T, Trégouët DA, Romero JR, Frenzel S, Luciano M, Hofer E, Bourgey M, Dueker ND, Delgado P, Hilal S, Tankard RM, Dubost F, Shin J, Saba Y, Armstrong NJ, Bordes C, Bastin ME, Beiser A, Brodaty H, Bülow R, Carrera C, Chen C, Cheng CY, Deary IJ, Gampawar PG, Himali JJ, Jiang J, Kawaguchi T, Li S, Macalli M, Marquis P, Morris Z, Muñoz Maniega S, Miyamoto S, Okawa M, Paradise M, Parva P, Rundek T, Sargurupremraj M, Schilling S, Setoh K, Soukarieh O, Tabara Y, Teumer A, Thalamuthu A, Trollor JN, Valdés Hernández MC, Vernooij MW, Völker U, Wittfeld K, Wong TY, Wright MJ, Zhang J, Zhao W, Zhu YC, Schmidt H, Sachdev PS, Wen W, Yoshida K, Joutel A, Satizabal CL, Sacco RL, Bourque G, Lathrop M, Paus T, Fernandez-Cadenas I, Yang Q, Mazoyer B, Boutinaud P, Okada Y, Grabe HJ, Mather KA, Schmidt R, Joliot M, Ikram MA, Matsuda F, Tzourio C, Wardlaw JM, Seshadri S, Adams HHH, Debette S. Genomics of perivascular space burden unravels early mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease. Nat Med. 2023 Apr; 29(4):950-962. PMID: 37069360.

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  • Published 7/15/2022

    Lara FR, Scruton AL, Pinheiro A, Demissie S, Parva P, Charidimou A, Francis M, Himali JJ, DeCarli C, Beiser A, Seshadri S, Romero JR. Aging, prevalence and risk factors of MRI-visible enlarged perivascular spaces. Aging (Albany NY). 2022 Jul 15; 14(17):6844-6858. PMID: 35852852.

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Education

  • Iran University of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, MD