AFTER LEARNING MEDICAL SCHOOL WAS JUST MEMORIZING PROTOCOLS AND FEELING HIS CURIOSITY BEING SQUASHED, DR. KATIRAEI WAS ON THE VERGE OF DROPPING OUT OF MEDICAL SCHOOL.
Dr. Pejman Katiraei is a board certified pediatrician who is also board and fellowship trained in integrative and holistic medicine. He completed his undergraduate at UCLA and then obtained his osteopathic medical degree at Western University of Health Sciences. He then went on to complete a pediatric residency at Loma Linda University, where he stayed on as teaching faculty for over 4 years. Dr. Katiraei has also completed two fellowships in integrative medicine, one with the University of Arizona and another under Dr. Kamyar Hedayat in a French model of integrative medicine called Endobiogeny. Dr. Katiraei is now in private practice in Santa Monica, where he focuses on helping children with severe behavioural challenges.
“Physicians are told ‘this is how things are, this is the right answer’ [...] and we encourage physicians to let go of their curiosity”
On today’s podcast Nicolette talks to Dr. Katiraei about his Holistic Minds digital portal that he is working on to better help kids with their stresses and anxieties. Computers will ask the questions so the doctors can have more time and focus on the physical side. They discuss how kids are born into environmental stressors and how kids are being raised into digital technology which causes cumulative stress responses like aggression, anxiety and depress. Dr. Katiraei deals with what he calls ’Train wreck kids’–children who don’t have the ability to regulate themselves and he offers solutions to help transform these children into healthy and thriving children.