Amir A. Afkhami

Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs & Medical Student Education Director of the Department of Psychiatry @GWSMHS. Husband to @hastie_hast & 👧 dad x2.

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

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: https://t.co/2KpU34nhRk #AModernContagion @GWpublichealth @GW_MFA

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

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

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

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. https://t.co/FyBW9PQhMT

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

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: https://t.co/2ZWmuyvfJs

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

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.” https://t.co/wJJAtYGea5

[Abbas Milani @milaniabbas]

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?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

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.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🇬🇧@thetimes: “The Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground in Iran, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter.”

Madam President @UN_PGA, why are you silent?

[Bernard-Henri Lévy @BHL]

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.

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

Thank you @SenatorJimBanks!

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

Fatemeh should definitely be deported. The United States & Indiana should be refunded for her taxpayer funded education.

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

@JasonMBrodsky if these individuals did not disclose their links and support for organizations involved Political violence such as in the Larijani the case the taxpayer funds spent on her residency training @CWRUSOM & @IUMedSchool should be clawed back from her.

[Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky]

One of the failures of U.S. #Iran policy over decades was the granting of visas and green cards to the Islamic Republic's elite and IR sympathizers while Americans were held hostage and the regime plotted to kill Americans. I will never understand what the U.S. government was thinking--or not thinking--in the original immigration decisions of these cases. It is a disgrace. But kudos to the Trump administration for finally taking a close look here. It's long overdue.

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

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: https://t.co/3AMtQailwT
@GWSMHS @GWtweets @GW_MFA @GWHospital

[GW SMHS @GWSMHS]

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: https://t.co/BfjQeKIcX1

[[email protected] @BehroozParhami]

“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]
https://t.co/5ujzaq5tOr

[GW MFA @GW_MFA]

Just a 1-week social-media detox can seriously lift your mood. Read how GW psychiatrist, Amir Afkhami, MD, recommends doing it: https://t.co/QgItYXeaC5 via @NPR

[Saeed Ghasseminejad @SGhasseminejad]

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.

[Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library @Ford_Library]

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: https://t.co/VzXJNe2Koc

[Middle East Forum @meforum]

#ICYMI: @Psych_Doc discusses how mental illness in the Islamic world is viewed differently than in the West.

https://t.co/IdMbngh9oz

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

Pandemics In Late Modern Iran https://t.co/r7BIb7l8LX https://t.co/r7BIb7l8LX

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

Looking forward to my lecture at the Washington Psychiatric Society’s (@WPS_DC) Annual Gala next Friday and reconnecting with incredible colleagues at the Embassy of Italy (@ItalyinUS)!
@GWSMHS @GW_MFA @GWHospital

[Amir A. Afkhami @Psych_Doc]

Excited to give this talk on pandemics in Iran next Saturday, hosted by @ucsantabarbara and @farhangfound. Register here to join ➡️ https://t.co/PVgn4bZeit
@GWSMHS @GWHistoryDept @GWpublichealth