He recieved his MD from The London Hospital Medical College and interned at Royal London Hospital. His residencies were completed at Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) and BWH, and his fellowship was at Harvard Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship. Dr. Tavakkolizadeh has board certification in surgery and his clinical interests are gallstones, hernias, GERD and reflux disease, laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscoic splenectomy and other solid organs, and laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery and lap band.