Dr Ziaee Bio

Dr. Hossein G. Ziaee (MD) is the Medical Director at Wheel of Wellbeing. As a physician, his philosophy involves being invested in healing clients rather than curing them. He makes a point of listening to and understanding his patients thoroughly, getting a sense of their whole condition and personhood before jumping to conclusions based upon presented symptoms. His years of research in the Pathology and Nephrology Departments and later residency in the filed of anatomical pathology at the VA medical center in West Los Angeles give Dr. Ziaee a sound and comprehensive expertise in practicing Western medicine.

Dr. Ziaee graduated from medical school at 1990; he earned his Doctorate with honors and as student body representative at the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

During the medical school in the aftermath of Iran-Iraq war he performed tours of duty as medical assistant on the front lines, where he treated large numbers of war victims in both emergency and non-emergency situations. Dr. Ziaee also worked for many years in Poison Control Center in city of Mashhad; these experiences taught him how to deal with highly critical situations in war or civilian life as suicide cases. It was then that he learned a great deal about human behavior and experienced the need for dealing with patients’ Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in their healing process. These experiences also made him keenly aware of emotional and mental aspects of diseases and the lack of attention and intention on proper addressing of these aspects on conventional methods of medical practice. He realized there are need for filling this gap in conventional medical treatment options by using the complimentary, perhaps more lasting and powerful methods that might prevent such conditions.

Following his graduation, Dr. Ziaee served his country in the Iranian Air Force, as first lieutenant in the Medical Division in second fighter base, after completion of military service he attended a general surgery residency training program in Iran university of Medical Sciences in Tehran, due to his disagreement with theocratic ideas of Iranian government he was forced to resign from residency program and start working as ER physician in private sector.

Dr. Ziaee’s dissatisfaction with human rights condition in Iran led him to United States, where he recapped most of his medical education in order to practice his passion in life, medicine. He completed his residency at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center in Los Angeles and earned his certificate in Anatomical Pathology from UCLA. His exemplary work in Urgent Care at the Venice Culver Marina Medical Group made him appreciate the western practice of medicine, while affirming awareness of the gaps between treatment and prevention he’d noticed earlier in his career.

Dealing with work related injuries and the need for using complimentary treatments motivated him to pursue alternative medicine – not only as a treatment modality, but also as a very powerful preventive means.

Over time, Dr. Ziaee found his humanistic medical goals in agreement with a high-school friend and medical school roommate, Daniel Sadigh, Founder of Wheel of Wellbeing. With a long standing friendship and common understanding of the importance of promoting the wellbeing of a whole person, Dr. Ziaee joined Wheel of Wellbeing. Dr. Ziaee understands of his patients’ suffering and his ability to empathize with their psychological needs is a founding principle of this sanctuary, where mind and body meet.