Born in Iraq and grew up in Iraq and Kuwait, Dr. Nizal Sarrafzadegan graduated from Isfahan university of medical sciences (IUMS) as the head of her class at the school of medicine and completed her specialty in internal medicine in 1990 in Iran. She passed her cardiology fellowship program at Isfahan & Tehran universities of medical science in 1992.
Currently, she is a distinguished professor in the cardiology division at the IUMS & is the director of the Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, a WHO collaborating center in the Eastern Mediterranean region.