Artin A. Mahdanian

Job role: 
Psychiatrist | Human Rights Defender
Affiliation: 
Member type: 
Educator / Academic
Practitioner/Implementer
Brief Biography: 

Dr. Artin Mahdanian is certified as a psychiatrist by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), and the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC).  After completing his MD, Dr. Artin worked as a general practitioner in rural areas before pursuing a Master of Science in Mental Health Research and a Medical Residency in Psychiatry at McGill University. He has collaborated as a visiting researcher in Global Mental Health at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. He completed his academic training with a postdoctoral clinical fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

His clinical and research interests include Mood/Anxiety/Trauma Conditions, Psychosomatic/Pain Medicine, Existential and ACT Psychotherapies, and Global Mental Health focusing on Human Rights and recovery.

Approach: 
Human rights
Advocacy
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
Regions of interest: 
Africa
Middle East
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Setting: 
Primary care
Specialist care
Population: 
Adults
Minority populations
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorders of interest: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
Alcohol/drug use disorders
Self-harm/suicide
Country: 
Canada

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