Postdoctoral Fellows
UCLA Nursing Postdoctoral Fellows conduct a variety of research to improve nursing science, clinical practice, and healthcare. School of Nursing fellows work with distinguished UCLA faculty members on cutting edge projects focusing on cardiovascular health, HIV/AIDS, and more.
Along with school-wide placements, the School of Nursing is also part of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program, where early career physicians and post-doctoral nurses participate in an intensive, highly-customized, two-year program placing them in community settings to conduct priority research directly benefiting the health of Southern California residents.
Learn more about our Postdoctoral Fellows below:
Sahereh Mirzaei, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN
PhD, University of Ilinois, Chicago
Master of Science in Critical Care Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
BSN, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Research Interest: Dr. Mirzaei is interested in exploring the effects of gut microbiome and gut microbiome-derived metabolites on metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease and assessing the influence of sex on symptoms of ischemic heart disease.
Zahra Sharifi-Heris, PhD, RN, CNM, MSN, BSN
PhD, Nursing Science: University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
MSN, Nursing-Midwifery: Iran University of Medical Science, Iran
BSN, Nursing-Midwifery
Research Interest: Dr. Sharifiheris continues her journey to enhance healthcare by integrating implementational and computational science in order to develop efficient and feasible predictive model for the life-threatening complications during pregnancy.
My Hanh (Theresa) Nguyen, PhD, PMHNP-BC
MS Nursing, Psychiatry/ Mental Health – Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY
PhD Nursing – University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing & Health Science, San Diego, CA
Research Interests: Dr. Nguyen is interested in investigating health inequities in mental health and substance use during the perinatal period and addressing gaps in data disaggregation in Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders mental health research.