Dr. Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, PhD, is an Associate Researcher in Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences Semel Institute. She's also  chair of Medical Student Research Thesis at Charles Drew University, college of medicine and David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

As a Sociologist and health services researcher she has extensive experience in conducting research on the social aspects of illness as well as developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to improve health care access, utilization, and health outcome for underserved minorities, particularly those affected by alcohol problems.

She has been the lead investigator and co-investigator in several projects funded by NIAAA, CDC, and California Endowment. She has over 30 publications in peer reviewed journals including; Substance Abuse, Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Trauma, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Preventive Medicine, Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion and others.

Dr. Bazargan-Hejazi is also the Chair of Medical Student Research Thesis Program at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, College of Medicine and within this capacity has kept an active role in teaching, and mentoring medical students in their research thesis.

She is also a member Editorial Advisory Board to The Open Addiction Journal (TOADDJ) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Injury and Violence Research (JIVR).
She can be contacted at shahrzadbazargan@cdrewu.edu