Board Members
Dr. Jamal Yousefi
Dr. Jamal Yousefi emigrated to the United States in 1986. He attended University of Maryland, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1990, followed by a Medical Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School in 1994. He completed his general surgery residency at the same hospital, followed fellowship training in Plastic Surgery under the supervision of world reknowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Ian Jackson. He accomplished a further year of fellowship in microsurgery to enhance his surgical techniques.
Dr. Yousefi has been in private practice since 2000, and currently has offices in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Besides Plastic Surgery, he has a passion for self awareness and self improvement, and has been giving lectures and seminars on a variety of related topics. Every year, Dr. Yousefi and three more SIAHP member go on a charity mission to Columbia to perform surgeries on kids with cleft lip and palate deformities.
Iman Kholdebarin
Iman has been a primary Patent Examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office since 2012. He completed his Master of Public Health degree at UCLA in 2012. While working as a patent examiner, he was elected as a board member of the Health and Wellness Association at Patent and Trademark Office, a non-profit organization, with nearly 3000 members. As part of his service, Iman served on the budget and strategic committee. He also represented the association at the U.S. President’s Health and Wellness Council. The Association’s budget during his years of service was over $1,000,000 with $851,000 revenue in 2016. Additionally, Iman was involved in amending the agency’s bylaws and running Association’s annual election in 2014.
(408)202-8214 iman.barin@gmail.com
Mehri Bashiri
Mehri Bashiri, Pharm D., graduated from Howard University School of Pharmacy with professional doctorate degree in pharmaceutical medicine. She has worked in retail pharmaceuticals, as well as in the hospital setting as clinical pharmacists. She is a member of: the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP); an organization, which protects, promotes, and advances the art and skill of the compounding pharmacy profession among others. . Her passion is to help with training programs and educational seminars for improving medication use and advancing patient care.
(301) 947-4747 mehrib@hotmail.com
Dr. Reza Ghafoorian
Dr. Reza Ghafoorian obtained his medical degree in 2000 from the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Subsequently, he took a position as a law clerk in a boutique patent law firm in Virginia, attended evening law school at GW Law and obtained his JD in December 2004. Currently, Dr. Ghafoorian focuses his practice on two branches of law: Health law, and patent law. As a medical doctor and an attorney, Dr. Ghafoorian has knowledge of the difficulties of managing and maintaining a healthcare practice and a deep understanding of the issues faced by healthcare practitioners. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Ghafoorian has represented healthcare providers in a wide range of healthcare law matters, including, advising on state certificate of need and healthcare regulatory and compliance matters, licensing, credentialing, accreditation, certification, staff privileges and medicare/medicaid reimbursement. Additionally, Dr. Ghafoorian has over 14 years of experience in prosecuting patent applications, seven years of which he served as a Patent Examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Ghafoorian has experience in drafting and prosecuting domestic and international patent applications in the fields of biotechnology, medical devices and software application.
(202) 656-8387 rghafoorian@g2zlaw.com
Dr. Sanaz Daneshfar (Hamrah)
Dr. Daneshfar (Hamrah) is a board certified pharmacotherapist. She joined the Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation (DAIT) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institute of Health (NIH) as a Clinical Research Pharmacist since 2012. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Northeastern University, Bouvé College of Pharmacy (Boston, MA) in 2001. In addition, Dr. Daneshfar received her board certification through the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS) in pharmacotherapy. She completed her residency training in clinical pharmacy with emphasis in infectious diseases and critical care at Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami, FL). After her residency she became the clinical pharmacy coordinator at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Florida. While working as a clinical coordinator, she became an adjunct professor at University of Florida, Gainesville and NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she taught pharmacy students in their clinical rotations. Prior to joining the DAIT, she worked as a clinical consultant for AmerisourceBergen assisting hospital systems in managing drug formularies, medication use outcomes, patient safety, and protocol development based on evidence-based medicine as well as development of pharmacist-run Coumadin, Asthma, and Diabetes Clinics. As a previous operations manager at NOVA SurgiCare (an Oral surgery/ MedSpa private practice), Dr. Daneshfar assisted in establishing and growing this surgical center to a successful practice in less than 2 years; where she was able to utilize her knowledge and skills and learn a lot about private practice. Her passion is to establish institutional processes and procedures that results in more successful organizational outputs and business models in addition to significant cost savings. To date, Dr. Daneshfar has saved the DAIT, NIAID, NIH over 5 million dollars.
(703)269-8465 shamrah@gmail.com
Forough Parvizian-Yazdani, DDS
Dr. Yazdani earned a B.A. in International Affairs with a minor in Biology from George Washington University. After graduation, Dr. Yazdani worked as a research assistant at Walter Reed for a year. She then proceeded to Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery where she earned a D.D.S. degree. She also pursued a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health.
Following graduation, Dr. Yazdani acquired her residency training in General Dentistry at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Since then, she has worked in private practices in Wind Gap, PA, Fair Oaks and Vienna, VA. Dr. Yazdani also held the position of Clinical and Research Instructor at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery for two years. She conducted research and published papers on the effect of Menopause on Periodontal Disease and the Presence of Oral Pathogens in Children and Women Diagnosed with AIDS.
She is a member of the American Dental Association, Northern VA Dental Society, and Washington Iranian Dental Society. She is board certified in the Northern Eastern Regional Boards and Southern Eastern Regional Boards and has held Dental Licenses in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Dr. Yazdani is a certified Lumineers and ZOOM Dentist. Dr. Yazdani continually earns C.E. credits to enhance her Dental knowledge. She is a strong believer in preventive Oral Health and its positive effect on the overall health of an individual.
Dr. Yazdani is passionate about wellness and nutritional health. As a health care provider, she is concerned with the high rate of obesity in the US. For this reason, she incorporates nutrition in her deliverance of oral health care especially pediatric patients. For patients who are overweight and have conditions such as Diabetes, High Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure, she offers a medically supervised diet program. Dr. Yazdani and Vienna Family Dentist serve the population in Vienna, Reston, Sterling, Fairfax and Falls Church.
(703) 938-0774
Arsha Yousefi, BSN, RN, MBA
Arsha Yousefi is an emergency room registered nurse at Shady Grove Hospital and an aesthetic nurse at the Youngerimage Plastic Surgery Center. She has over 15 years of experience in the medical field with extensive involvement in managing patients, staff and developing policies and procedures.
She received her bachelor degree in Business Administration from University of Michigan in 2000, a Master of Business Administration from University of Phoenix in 2005. She fulfilled a Master Esthetician degree from Skin Care Institute in 2010. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2018 from Chamberlaine School of Nursing.
arshayousefi@yahoo.com