Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs & Medical Student Education Director of the Department of Psychiatry @GWSMHS. Husband to @hastie_hast & 👧 dad x2.
District of Columbia, USA
Joined February 2010
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Amazing! ‘A Modern Contagion’ is now #1 New Release in 2 categories: forensic medicine AND history of medicine! I'm grateful to all who helped make this ‘serious’ book top ranked on #Amazon in. Pick up your copy: amzn.to/2X1Jfax #AModernContagion @GWpublichealth @GW_MFA – at Washington, DC
Pleased to speak with @Allure_magazine about research on acupuncture for depression. The evidence is promising, but acupuncture should complement, not replace, established treatments. The goal remains individualized psychiatric care grounded in evidence: allure.com/story/acupuncture…
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Amir Khan Amir Aʿlam (1861–1961) was a pivotal architect of modern medicine in Iran. A physician, educator, legislator & institution-builder, he advanced public health and vaccination laws, founded hospitals, and transformed Iranian medicine: a.co/d/0ibeN8fi
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Picasso’s ties to medicine began early: his uncle, physician Dr. Salvador Ruiz, financed his art training, while Dr. Ramón Couteles, a physician and director of his first art school, became an early mentor and role model inspiring Picasso’s “Science and Charity.”
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From my library: a 1976 tribute to the enduring friendship between Iran and the United States. History reminds us that when regimes pass, the bonds between peoples can endure and be renewed. #250_america #FreeIran
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Honored to be inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists and to join an inspiring group of colleagues and friends recognized for demonstrated excellence and national leadership in psychiatry. Feeling humbled & energized for what’s ahead. #Psychiatry #MentalHealthMatters
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Kennedy makes unfounded claim that keto diet can ‘cure’ schizophrenia. There’s no clinical trial data to support this assertion. If you or a family member suffers from schizophrenia, get your treatment recommendations from a psychiatrist, not the Sec of HHS. nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/po…
Quoted in @EverydayHealth on the emerging science behind diet & depression. Early data suggest metabolic approaches may play an adjunctive role in mood disorders, alongside evidence-based psychiatric care. Metabolic psychiatry is a space to watch: everydayhealth.com/mental-he…
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Shocking: “As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME….The only parallel offered by online databases occurred in the Holocaust.” time.com/nextgen-preview/722…
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The death of one human being in Minneapolis rightly causes the rage of “progressives” around the world. Credible reports put the number of Iranians killed by their criminal rulers upward of sixty thousand. Mendacious regime itself admits “several thousand.” Where is the rage?
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There was so much talk about the protests in Iran – but they drowned in blood. The world has not helped enough the Iranian people, it has stood aside.
What will Iran become after this bloodshed? If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully – kill enough people, and you stay in power.
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The sudden presence of #Iran at #Davos is an absolute scandal. Davos claims to be a sanctuary of dialogue, yet it offers its platform to a regime that has just massacred 20,000 of its own citizens. If Davos does not cancel this invitation, Davos should be shamed and boycotted.
Today @FoxNews reports exclusively on a letter @UANI sent to @WEF calling on it to rescind an invitation to #Iran's regime's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to speak in Davos this week after the regime engaged in the largest massacre of Iranians in its contemporary history this month.
foxnews.com/world/world-econ…
Thank you @SenatorJimBanks!
Excited to be featured in @thisisflowspace discussing how to make habits stick using practical, evidence-based strategies. We explore small shifts that lead to lasting behavior change in real life: theflowspace.com/interperson…
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Did you know that a short social media detox can improve your mental health?
Check out this recent @NPR article featuring #GWSMHS faculty member Amir Afkhami, MD, PhD, on tips to boost your mental health through less time on social media: n.pr/48PXSo9
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“Pandemics in Late Modern Iran: Sociopolitical Continuities from Cholera to COVID-19”: This was the title of today’s webinar by Dr. Amir A. Afkhami, sponsored jointly by Farhang Foundation and UCSB Iranian Studies Initiative. ... [Read more]
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Just a 1-week social-media detox can seriously lift your mood. Read how GW psychiatrist, Amir Afkhami, MD, recommends doing it: nprillinois.org/2025-12-02/a… via @NPR
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سلطان علیخان وزیر افخم نخستین کسی بود که در منصب کفیل رئیسالوزرا قرار گرفت.
تا پیش از آن ایران صدراعظم داشت که با تصمیم مجلس کنار گذاشته شد و با رئیسالوزرا جایگزین شد.
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Pop art met politics in 1975 when Andy Warhol was invited to the White House for the first time. As a state dinner guest, he met President Ford and the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Read the full blog post here: ford.blogs.archives.gov/2025…
