Cylen Javidan-nejad MD

Dr. Cylen Javidan, MD, is an associate professor of diagnostic radiology and specializes in cardiothoracic imaging with an emphasis on imaging of the trachea and bronchi, interstitial lung disease, and CT and MR of congenital heart disease.

She was born and raised in Chicago and as a teen moved with her family to Tehran, Iran, where she completed high school and continued on to medical school, graduating from the Iran University of Medical Sciences in 1994. After practicing primary care medicine for seven months in a village in western Iran, she returned to Chicago in 1995. Javidan completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, a fellowship in cross-sectional imaging at Henry Ford Hospital, and a fellowship in cardiothoracic imaging at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.