Nima A. Fahimian, MD
Director, Continuum of Care
Dr. Fahimian serves as the Medical Director of Continuum of Care at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His clinical duties include overseeing the Adult Partial Hospitalization Program, Geriatrics Day Treatment Program, and Adult Intensive Outpatient Programs.
In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Fahimian holds a full time teaching faculty position at Cedars Sinai Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and an academic appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Fahimian is also an adjunct professor of psychopharmacology at Pepperdine University.
Dr. Fahimian's research interests include long-term cognitive and emotional rehabilitation of psychiatric disorders in day treatment programs with a focus on social cognition, studying the effects of creative cognitive therapy, creativity and metaphor therapy in rehabilitation, and assessment of psychotherapeutic techniques in the setting of acute outpatient day treatment programs.
Dr. Nima Fahimian received his bachelor's of Biochemistry and Sociology from UCLA, and medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine. He served as a resident and the Inpatient Chief Resident at UCLA Semel/Neuropsychiatric Institute. During medical school he completed a NIH summer fellowship in the area of cellular differentiation and genetics, which earned him the Western Medical Student Excellence in Research Recognition. Prior to medical school he co-authored a book in the area of psychosociology of urban education.
