Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., is board-certified in General Internal Medicine and General Preventive Medicine & Public Health. Dr. Ferdowsian has served as director of research policy for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, director of clinical research for the Washington Center for Clinical Research, and staff physician for Unity Health Care in Washington, DC. Her clinical and research interests have focused on vulnerable individuals and populations. Dr. Ferdowsian has worked with homeless, immigrant, and other marginalized populations.
Internationally, Dr. Ferdowsian has worked in Malawi, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, and the Federated States of Micronesia on issues including HIV/AIDS, nutrition, and the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. Dr. Ferdowsian has worked with the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Global Health, as an invited collaborator on a United States Surgeon General’s global health document. Dr. Ferdowsian is a volunteer physician for HealthRight International, International Fund for Africa, and Physicians for Human Rights. She is a co-founder of The George Washington University Asylum Clinic, now at Bread for the City, where she has trained medical providers, residents, and students on the care and evaluation of torture survivors.
Dr. Ferdowsian has led several projects relevant to ethical considerations regarding the use of animals in research and other areas of society. Her work in this area includes a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary investigation of factors relevant to ethical and scientific considerations regarding the use of animals in research, efforts which have received funding from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Ferdowsian received her undergraduate degree in Biology and Bioethics from the University of Southern California and earned her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She completed residency training in Community and Preventive Medicine and her master’s degree in public health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Ferdowsian completed residency training in Internal Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center. She holds medical licenses in the District of Columbia and New York.
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