Whitepine Pictures:‌ Tofy Mussivand was a young man when he fled the Shahs Iran in 1957. After studying engineering and working across Canada, Dr. Mussivand left to pursue medicine and biomedical engineering in the United States. Bringing back extraordinary expertise, he settled in Ottawa, where his knowledge pushed the frontier of heart transplants and made the city an unlikely centre of world class heart technology and research. Highly skilled and personally drive, Dr. Mussivand invented an artificial heart that may well revolutionize the success rate of transplants.