Dr. Ali Najafian Jazi

I graduated from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2006. I had a strong enthusiasm for studying the brain function. Therefore, I decided to join a neuroscience research lab at the University of Bremen in Germany in 2007. In 2009, I joined a graduate program at the Barrow Neurological Institute at Arizona State University to further study the brain and expand my studies in the field of neuroscience. I have presented in many neuroscience conferences and have published several papers in scientific journals. For a list of my papers please click here.

My research background in the field of neuroscience was extremely helpful in understanding mental health disorders. My enthusiasm to help patients and families dealing with mental health problems was an important motive to start my training in psychiatry. In 2014, I joined the Psychiatry Residency Program at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Virginia. During my residency training I was working in both academic and community settings with a variety of patient populations. Having special interest in mental health disorder in older adults, after graduating from residency in Adult Psychiatry, I did a fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where I was trained more specifically to take care of older adults with mental health disorders. I graduated from Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA in 2019 and shortly after I began my private practice.

I am a culturally competent psychiatrists and psychotherapist, meaning that I am comfortable addressing issues like developmental disabilities, disabilities that develop later in life, national origin, racial identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc. I am also very familiar with middle eastern cultures. I speak Farsi fluently, and I provide psychotherapy and medication management in both English and Farsi.

Currently, I am working with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in supervising trainees (i. e. residents and fellows during their geriatric psychiatry and memory disorders rotations). In the end, I would like to emphasize that educating my patients and their family members on their mental health status is one of the important goals of the treatment process.

Cell Phone: 805-889-0709
Email: info@drjazi.com