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Raffi Tachdjian
Raffi Tachdjian, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at the UCLA School of Medicine. His research focus is on asthma and allergic inflammation. He is also a clinical trial investigator for asthma, hereditary angioedema, and chronic pain and inflammation.

Dr. Tachdjian’s work has been published in journals including the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. As epidemiologist in charge of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA, he helped demonstrate the waning immunity of pertussis vaccine.

Dr. Tachdjian received his bachelor’s degree in Physiology from the University of California, Los Angeles; a Masters in Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham; an internship at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention along with his Medical Degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed his Pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his final year of fellowship, he also trained in Pediatric Pain Management at UCLA.

Finally, Dr. Tachdjian is involved with bringing music therapy to children with chronic and life-altering illness through a 501(c)3 non-profit organization he founded called the Children’s Music Fund (www.ChildrensMusicFund.org).

Dr. Tachdjian is Board Certified in Adult and Pediatric Allergy & Immunology and currently runs the asthma ‘Breathmobile’ for UCLA. He is on staff at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, St. John’s Hospital, and Santa Monica UCLA Hospital.

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