Mahdieh Hosseini, MD

Mahdieh Hosseini, MD

Mahdieh was born in Washington DC. She is the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and Iranian father and grew up partly in DC and partly in Tehran, Iran. She attended college at Johns Hopkins University where she graduated with honors in Chemistry. Her fascination with the nervous system developed during college when she performed research in mouse models of Alzheimer’s Dementia. She moved to Philadelphia for medical school at Temple University. To explore her passion for neuroscience research she took a year of independent study to participate in the NIH Medical Research Scholars Program where she worked under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Hallett. She studied the use of non- invasive neuromodulation including TMS and tDCS in treating focal dystonias, as well as PET imaging to understand cholinergic disturbances in movement disorders. In addition to neuroscience research, she is passionate about caring for underserved communities.

She loves the outdoors and nature, spending time with family and friends, restaurants with good views and international traveling.