Background
Dr. Artin A. Mahdanian is a psychiatrist certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an Attending Psychiatrist in the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service and Partial Hospitalization Program at the JH Suburban Hospital.
After earning his MD, Dr. Mahdanian worked as a general practitioner in rural areas before pursuing academic work with a Master of Science in Mental Health research and psychiatry residency at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada. He has performed visiting research in Global Mental Health at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in CL Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.
His areas of clinical and research interests include Psychosomatic/Pain Medicine, Psychotherapies, and Global Mental Health with a focus on Human Rights.