Mohsen Saidinejad, MD, MS, MBA, FAAP, FACEP

Additional Positions: Director, Institute for Health Services and Outcomes Research; Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA, Director of Patient Experience - Department of Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Dr. Saidinejad is an attending physician at Harbor UCLA Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Department and holds an appointment as Professor at UCLA School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed his pediatric residency training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship training at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He also trained in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program in Epidemiology and International Health at the University of Michigan. He also holds a master’s in business administration (MBA) from the George Washington School of Business, where he received a Leadership and Service award.

Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, he spent 9 years as emergency medicine attending physician at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC and as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. His area of research is emergency department aftercare and the use of mobile and connected health technology to track health behavior, improve discharge instructions, and optimize treatment adherence. He is federally funded on 2 grants by the Health Research and Services Administration (HRSA) as center director for the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC), as well as the HRSA Regional Pediatric Pandemic Network. He serves on the steering committee for equity, diversity, and inclusion for EIIC. In 2019, he received a UCLA and USC CTSI and DHS Implementation Science Award on his CONNECT project, which seeks to improve patient link from hospital back to medical home. He is also a member of the Western node for Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN).

As director of patient experience, he is constantly exploring innovative strategies to improve communication and as well as anticipating and managing patient expectations during an ED visit. Nationally, he serves on the technical planning committee for the NIH Wireless Health and has been involved with the NIH mobile health (mHealth) training institute. He is a member of the pediatric committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He also serves as chair of the SAEM Pediatric Emergency Medicine Interest Group and serves on the SAEM Program Committee and Faculty Development Committee. He is also co-founder and partner in healthEworks, a startup Internet company, which was funded by the NIH and other agencies to develop video education and hospital discharge instructions.

Research interests: Emergency department throughput, patient experience, medical education, equity, diversity and inclusion, and mHealth tools to track and improve patient health behavior