Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, M.D.
Allergy/Immunologist
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics - Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology - UCLA School of Medicine
Founder: "Children's Music Fund"
Autism Think Tank Advisor
Dr. Raffi Tachdjian, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Tachdjian is Board Certified in Adult and Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, as well as in Pediatrics. He is on the medical staff at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, St. John’s Hospital, and Santa Monica UCLA Hospital. He currently runs the ‘Breathmobile’ mobile asthma clinic for UCLA. His research focus is on asthma and allergic inflammation. He is also a clinical trial investigator for asthma, hereditary angioedema, and chronic pain and inflammation.
Dr. Tachdjian received his bachelor’s degree in Physiology from the University of California, Los Angeles; a Masters in Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham; an internship at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention along with his Medical Degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed his Pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his final year of fellowship, he also trained in Pediatric Pain Management at UCLA.
Dr. Tachdjian’s work has been published in journals including the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. As epidemiologist in charge of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA, he helped demonstrate the waning immunity of pertussis vaccine.
Dr. Tachdjian is also the founder of the AIRE Medical (www.airedoc.com), his private practice in Santa Monica, CA and the Children’s Music Fund (www.TheCMF.org) (a 501(c)3 non-profit organization), bringing music therapy to children with chronic and life-altering illnesses.