Mona Mojtahedzadeh, MD

Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology

Psycho-Oncology

C/L Psychiatry

Refugee and Asylee Health

MMojtahedzadeh@mednet.ucla.edu

Dr. Mona Mojtahedzadeh obtained her MD from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran following which served as a general and family practitioner to an underserved health and urgent care clinic in Iran. Inspired about public health and committed to observe those in need, in subsequent years, she served as the primary physician consultant for the resettlement unit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as cared as a clinician for asylum seekers at the International Organization for Migration and has been a member of the Physicians for the Human Rights. Mona studied her psychiatry residency at Texas Tech University Health and Science Center coupled with the Loma Linda University Health and completed her consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Mojtahedzadeh has served as an Assistant Professor in the department of supportive care medicine at City of Hope national medical center in the field of psycho-oncology and psychiatric care to the bone marrow transplant patients. Aside from that, Mona has experience working within other scopes of consultation-liaison psychiatry including patients of HIV, transplant patients, and women’s health groups in various disciplines of care. She is invested greatly in medical education and has an extensive academic background including numerous publications in areas of medicine, mental health, and their overlap,

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