Dr. Amiri graduated with his medical degree in his home country of Iran. After finishing his residency in Surgery and Urology in Denmark, he pursued a fellowship in Kidney Transplantation there as well as Abdominal Organ Transplantation at the University of Tennessee. He has served as a professor at the University of Tennessee and most recently at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport. He is currently the Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at the John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center.

He has published numerous works on liver, pancreas, and kidney transplantation in scholarly journals as well as reviewed the work of other distinguished physicians and surgeons. Dr. Amiri has worked to establish liver transplant programs both in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Amiri is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the Southern Surgical Society, and both the American Society of Transplant Physicians and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He is also a member of the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, the Iranian American Medical Association, and the John C. McDonald Surgical Society among others.

He has given lectures at conferences worldwide bringing his widespread experience to the training of other surgeons and physicians. Over the course of his ongoing career, Dr. Amiri has trained numerous medical professionals throughout the world in organ transplant techniques.