Dr. Rahbar has practiced pediatric otolaryngology at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), Harvard Medical School since 1998. His clinical expertise in pediatric airway disorders and head-neck tumors is recognized nationally and internationally. He co-directs two multidisciplinary programs in this regard: The Center for Airway Disorders and the Program for Head-Neck Surgery. He is the Associate Chief and Chair in Airway Disorder in Pediatric Otolaryngology at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School.  

From a scholarship standpoint, he is the author and/or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He has been an invited speaker or visiting professor at more than 150 national and international conferences. He has served as the Section Editor of three major otolaryngology and pediatric otolaryngology textbooks, in addition to his co-editorship of “Pediatric Head and Neck Tumor: A-Z Guide to Presentation and Multimodality Management.” 

Dr. Rahbar has provided a number of surgical techniques to advance the application of CO2 laser in the endoscopic management of laryngeal clefts in addition to outcome measures, feeding therapy and anesthesia protocol. By virtue of his extensive surgical experience and publication record, he is one of the leaders in laryngeal cleft surgery. The laryngeal cleft program at BCH is one of the largest in the world from a patient volume, surgical experience and scientific publication standpoint.

From an educational perspective, he served as the Director of the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship and was responsible for coordinating the Continuing Medical Education for the physicians and other health care providers in the department from 2010-2020. He was the first recipient of the McGill Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology established in 2012 and subsequently the first recipient of the Airway Disorder Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology established in 2020. 

Dr. Rahbar has additionally led and served his profession through a number of external positions. Dr. Rahbar served as the Secretary of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO) (2016-2020) and President of ASPO (2023-2024).