? Professional Summary
Skilled and qualified professional psychiatrist with more than 10 years of experience effectively treating patients with a wide range of conditions, including PTSD especially for veterans, anxiety and mood disorders especially in women without caretakers or with irresponsible caretakers, focus on reducing stigma and … in crowded psychiatric clinics, private office and national health services.
? Skills highlights
• Suicide risk assessment
• Superior communication skills
• Interested and active in reducing Stigma in psychiatric disorders
• Active in psychoeducation and mental health awareness
• Expert in PTSD patients (especially veterans)
• Expert in mood and anxiety disorders (especially in women without caretakers or with irresponsible caretakers)
• Accomplished in psychopharmacology
• Active listening and fully empathy
• Dual diagnosis expertise in methadone maintenance therapy
? Work experiences
Private office 2009 - Now
• Record and document patient’s information in their folders
• Medical treatment generally in mood and anxiety disorders in adults and children
• Rely on explanation of the disorder, treatment and its process to the patient
• Ability to communicate via call or text for the patient to inform about the medicine side effects and treatment progression
• Consultation in interpersonal problems and anxiety and mood disorders
• Trying to destigmatize psychiatric disorders for any person in all the visits
Psychiatric clinic (3 days a week) (Valiasr clinic) Nov. 2017 – now
• Record all patient’s information despite the clinic crowds (at least 15-20 patients everyday)
• Medical treatment and consultant in adults and children psychiatric patients
• Suicide cases assessment and refer to hospitals for admission if required
Psychiatric clinic (once a week) (Shohada clinic) Sep. 2017 – now
• Record all patient’s information
• Medical treatment and consultant in adults and children psychiatric patients
• Specialized treatment for PTSD in veterans
MMT clinic (once a week) Sep. 2017 – now
• Comorbid psychiatric disorders treatment in methadone maintenance treatment clinic in opium and amphetamine dependents
Charity psychiatric clinic (twice a month) Apr. 2017 – now
• Treating psychiatric disorders in women with without caretakers or with irresponsible caretakers in Barin Charity and their children who generally suffer from mood, anxiety and ADHD disorders.
Psychiatric national health service clinic (3 days a week) (Hashtgerd) 2011 – 2016
• Working in Hashtgerd (a city with 80Km distance from Tehran) health clinic as psychiatrist that visit several patients (adults and children) daily. Regarding to plenty of patients refer from many villages around the city I visited at least 20 patients with the wide ranges of disorders. (Mood and anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, children psychiatric disorders, suicide in adults and children and …)
• Treating and consulting the patients and referring to the hospitals if needed
• Cooperating in diagnosing and screening province team to find and treat the pregnant and lactating women with depression and suicidal though disorder in the last two years
Charity psychiatric clinic (once a week) 2009 – 2011
• visiting women and girls with chronic mental disorders and mental retardation in the charity mental illness center as psychiatrist.
• I started there to file the patient’s information for the first time to record their vital signs, periodic laboratory test results and the study the complications of their long term medication in accompany with nurses.
• Treating some patients with Catatonia and Mutism disorders with very good amelioration.
MMT clinic (private) 2009 – 2011
• Methadone maintenance Therapy
• Comorbid psychiatric disorders treatment in methadone maintenance treatment clinic in opium and amphetamine dependents
? Objective and rules in work
In any psychiatric action there is some main issues:
• Active listening, patient respecting and empathy
• Recording patient signs, diagnosis and sickness period (even in crowded clinics)
• Emphasis on destigmatize from psychiatry and psychiatric patients and disorders
• Emphasis on psychoeducation, explanation of the disease and its signs
• Explanation of diagnosis and medicine selection reasons and their side effects
• Being available for the patients via call or text
? Education
Specialty in psychiatry 2005 – 2008
Mashhad University of Medical Science Mashhad, Iran
Residency dissertation: The effects of estrogen treatment in women with chronic schizophrenia admitted in Mashhad Hejazi hospital
Advisors: Dr. Fatemeh Behdani, Dr. Paria Hebrani
Doctorate of Medicine 1994 – 2002
Hamedan University of Medical Science Hamedan, Iran
Doctoral dissertation: A survey of thyroid function in patients with mood disorders who refers to psychiatry clinic of Hamedan Sina hospital, 2002
Advisor: Dr. Abdollah Farhadinasab
? Membership and Affiliations:
Iranian Psychiatric Association accomplished in psychopharmacology 2010 - Now
Medical Council of Iran (M. C. No. 88662) 2002 – Now
? Honors and Awards
Ranked 3rd in Psychiatry Board Certification exam 2008
Ranked 2nd in Annual Psychiatry exam in Mashhad university of medical science 2007
Ranked 1st in Annual Psychiatry exam in Mashhad university of medical science 2006
Ranked 440th among over 400.000 applicants in the Iranian National Medical university entrance examination 1994
? Publications
• Talaei, A. Soltanifar, A. Mokhber, N. & Mohammadnezhad, M. (2008).
“Evaluation of mood and anxiety disorders in the infertile women in Mashhad Montaserieh clinic”
Pakistan Journal of Psychology, 39 (1), 75-87
• Behdani, F. Mousavifar, N. Hebrani, P. Soltanifar, A. & Mohammadnezhad, M. (2008).
“Depression in the Iranian health employees and its correlation with self-esteem and social support”
Iran women, Obstetrics and Infertility Journal, 11 (3), 15-22
• Talaei, A. Mohammadnezhad, M. & Samari, A. (2007).
“Burnout in staffs of healthcare centers in Mashhad”
Fundamental of Mental health, 9, 135-144
• Talaei, A. Mohammadnezhad, M. Mokhber, N. & Samari, A. (2008).
“Burnout and its related factors in staffs of university hospitals in Mashhad 2006”
Koomesh Journal, 9 (3), 237-245
• Behdani, F. Mohammadnezhad, & Hebrani, P. (2007).
“The effects of estrogen treatment ion women with chronic schizophrenia admitted in Hejazi hospital”
Fundamental of Mental health, Accepted
? Conferences and Workshops
• Life skill(Assertiveness), Workshop, Hashtgerd, 2016
• Prevention of suicide, Workshop, Karaj, 2013
• Prevention of domestic violence, Specialized workshop, Hashtgerd, 2012
• Schizophrenia and medicinal and non-medical treatment, Conference, Sabzevar, 2009
• Stigma in psychiatric disorders, Conference, Sabzevar, 2009
• Substance abuse in psychiatric disorders, Conference, Sabzevar, 2010
• Empathy and effective communication, Workshop, Sabzevar, 2009
• Psychiatric complication in cerebrovascular accidents, Workshop, Sabzevar, 2009
• Psychiatric aspect of heart disease, Workshop, Sabzevar, 2009
• End of life care, Conference, Sabzevar, 2009