Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H, is a nutrition researcher, physician, and public health advocate. As Director of the Washington Center for Clinical Research, Dr. Ferdowsian conducts studies on the role of nutrition in obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Her current projects include the development of a multi-center study to examine the role of a low-fat vegan diet in diabetes management, a worksite-based nutrition study, and a preliminary analysis of the addictive properties of dairy products. Dr. Ferdowsian’s previous research has included studies of diabetes outcomes in a New York City homeless population and a Rockefeller University study of chronic disease prevalence in a Micronesian population.

Dr. Ferdowsian has served medically in Malawi, South Africa, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Dr. Ferdowsian has worked with the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Global Health, as an invited collaborator on a United States Surgeon General’s global health document. She is a volunteer physician for Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors of the World. Dr. Ferdowsian is a staff physician at Unity Health Care and a Voluntary Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center, in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Ferdowsian received her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She completed both residency training in Community and Preventive Medicine and her master’s degree in public health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Ferdowsian completed internal medicine training at The George Washington University Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. She is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. She holds medical licenses in the District of Columbia and New York state.