Dr. Shant Shekherdimian is the Associate Director for Healthcare Outreach for the Promise Armenian Institute at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His educational background includes a medical degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a Masters in Public Health with an emphasis on global health from UCLA. He has completed a residency in general surgery at UCLA and a fellowship in pediatric surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Shant currently is an Associate Professor of Surgery and serves as an advisor to the Ministry of Health in Armenia.
