Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California, United States
Dr. Saidinejad is an attending physician at Harbor UCLA Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Department and holds an appointment as Associate Professor at UCLA School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed his pediatric residency training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship training at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He also trained in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program in Epidemiology and International Health at the University of Michigan. He also holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the George Washington School of Business, where he received a for Leadership and Service award.
Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, he spent 9 years as emergency medicine attending physician at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC and as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. His area of research is emergency department aftercare and the use of mobile and connected health technology to track health behavior, improve discharge instructions, and optimize treatment adherence. He currently has an active research collaboration with UCLA Computer science department and as well as USC Institute for Health promotion and Disease Prevention Research. He is a member of the research committee and patient experience committee at Harbor UCLA.
As director of patient experience, he is constantly exploring innovative strategies to improve communication and as well as anticipating and managing patient expectations during an ED visit. Nationally, he serves on the technical planning committee for the NIH Wireless Health and has been involved with the NIH mobile health (mHealth) training institute. He is the chair of the Pediatric Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and a section leader in the ACEP pediatric section. He is a co-founder and partner in healthEworks, a startup Internet company, which was funded by the NIH and other agencies to develop video education and hospital discharge instructions.
Research interests: Emergency department throughput, patient experience, health literacy, and mHealth tools to track and improve patient health behavior, and social determinants of health.