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Dr. Timir S. Baman is co-founder of Project My Heart Your Heart, a local collaboration between the University of Michigan and physicians, funeral homes, ordinary citizens and the World Medical Relief organization to explant pacemakers with substantial battery life for donation abroad to people without means for a new device.

Dr. Baman is currently a cardiac electrophysiology fellow at the University of Michigan Hospitals. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1998 and the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in 2003. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals from 2003 to 2006, followed by his clinical fellowship in cardiology at the University of Michigan from 2006 to 2009. He is expected to complete his cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2011.

He has an interest in improving access to electrophysiological healthcare to third-world nations philanthropically. His other research interests include advancement of ablation strategies for atrial fibrillation, premature ventricular contractions and ventricular tachycardia. He has published more than 15 peer-reviewed articles, edited seven book chapters and is in the process of editing a cardiovascular manual for internal medicine physicians.