Dr. Heran graduated from the University of British Columbia medical school in 1996. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency training at the University of British Columbia program in 2001, and obtained his FRCPC in Diagnostic Radiology the same year. Having completed fellowships in Pediatric Radiology (BC Children’s Hospital, 2001), Vascular and Interventional Radiology (Vancouver General Hospital, 2002), as well as in Diagnostic Neuroradiology (Duke University Medical Center, 2003), he returned to a joint staff position between Vancouver General Hospital and BC Children’s Hospital in 2003. Now in his twenty third year on staff, Dr. Heran is Head of the Section of Interventional Neuroradiology at Vancouver General Hospital, and a pediatric interventional radiologist at British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital. Dr. Heran is internationally recognized in both fields and has served as the President of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology (SPIR) twice. With cross appointments in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Spine, and Pediatrics, he is heavily involved in all aspects of medical education and clinical research. Areas of specific interest include the diagnosis and management of vascular malformations, spinal intervention, traumatic brain injury, interventional neuroradiology (including acute stroke and other ischemic cerebrovascular disease), and orbital radiology and intervention.