Dr. Irman's Story

Dr. Irman Forghani is the Director of Genetics at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Forghani is board-certified by the American College of Medical Genetics and the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Forghani earned her medical degree from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran, where she received the Medical Student Education Leader Award for her innovative curricular design. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa, OK. Following her residency, she completed her fellowship training in medical genetics at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Prior to her position as the Director of Clinical Genetics at Mount Sinai Medical Center, she was an Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL, where she served as the Founder and Director of the Hereditary Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic. She also served as Director of the Cancer Predisposition Syndrome, Von Hippel Lindau Care Clinic for seven years. Her practice focuses on adult inherited and complex disorders, with a special interest in hereditary connective tissue disorders, vascular malformations, and hereditary cancer syndromes.

She has authored and co-authored multiple scientific articles and abstracts in reputable peer-reviewed medical journals. She was a co-investigator in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) research study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, and served as a member of the NORD Rare Disease Center of Excellence at the University of Miami.

She is currently a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, the American Board of Internal Medicine, the Ehlers-Danlos Society International Consortium Peer Review Panel, and the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Gynecological Oncology. In addition to being a clinician and a researcher, Dr. Forghani teaches fellows, residents, and medical students. She has mentored many medical students and residents in different research projects and has been very active in community events and fundraisers to raise awareness about inherited complex adult disorders.

Dr. Forghani is fluent in English and Farsi (Persian).