Dr.Parmis Khatibi. A daughter of educators, Parmis was exposed to and embraced science early. Teaching and treating the underserved is also in her DNA. She spends her days with patients fighting opioid addiction and other life-threatening diseases. Away from the clinic, she’s fighting stereotypes and lifting up young women. Dr….
Amir Amini is the Professor and Endowed Chair in Bioimaging at the University of Louisville. Prior to this, he was the founder of the Cardiovascular Image Analysis Laboratory and associate professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. He was elected a fellow of the IEEE (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) in 2007, the…
SoCal Persian American Medical Association is an IRS 501(c) approved non-profit physician membership organization. We are composed of healthcare professionals of Persian/ American heritage, who are interested in Persian culture, and live and work in Southern California. We are led by a Board of Directors composed of seven volunteer members and…
Nehzat Farnoody, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a Specialty in Cross-Cultural Psychology. Dr. Farnoody received her undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Iran. In 1969 she was accepted into the Masters program in Clinical Psychology at Kansas University and immigrated to The United States with her…
Mandana Zandian, born in Esfahan, Iran in 1971 and graduated from Shahid Beheshti Medical School in 1997. She worked as a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for 20 years, specializing in research on aggressive forms of advanced cancers. Dr. Zandian is also a published poet and author actively…
