Our Building Blocks - Dr. Noshene Ranjbar - Episode 116

Our guest today is Dr. Noshene Ranjbar. Born raised in Tehran, Iran until immigrating to the US in adolescence, Dr. Ranjbar developed a passion for a holistic view of medicine and healing from early on in her life. Throughout her studies and life experiences, including her own illness as well as caring for her mom who suffered from several autoimmune illnesses and cancer, to fostering refugee children with PTSD, to working with American Indian communities across the U.S., to working with asylum seekers, she developed a keen interest in approaches to healing trauma and advocating for holistic mental health in empowering, culturally appropriate ways. Harvard trained and board certified in General Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Integrative Medicine, she is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. She is co- founder of the Integrative Psychiatry Program at the UA, while also serving as Faculty with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Her research focuses on training the next generation of psychiatrists to offer a holistic approach to mental health, while serving children and families most in need. As a Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leader, she continues to expand her work in integrative mental health and in working with the underserved, particularly with American Indian communities as well as other indigenous communities internationally. Social Media  Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noshene-ranjbar-2039949/ Instagram: nosheneranjbar Twitter. @NosheneMD Webpages: https://psychiatry.arizona.edu/profile/noshene-e-ranjbar-md https://samehereglobal.org/expert-profile-noshene-ranjbar/ https://cmbm.org/faculty-member/noshene-ranjbar-md/ In this podcast we talked about : - Trauma & Mental Health - Stigmas & Fears - Trauma Manifestations in Adult life - Integrative Psychiatry