Health & Wellness Committee

It is our intention to contribute to and support the wellness of our community through direct assistance and education. 

Assistance: assisting the severely ill and their families to cope with their situation by providing knowledge as well as emotional and financial support

• Helping the newly diagnosed with obtaining second and third opinions, evaluating their options about their course of treatment and choice of doctors and healthcare facilities
• Investigate and refer to the available trials within the research centers, universities and medical centers
• Assistance in dealing with the insurance companies
• Assisting patients navigate the maze of state and nonprofit sources of financial support
• Fundraising and negotiating with local health providers for pro bono care
• Providing temporary homecare for those not eligible to receive this benefit through the state
• Providing emotional support for the severely ill and their families to cope with the stress and trauma of disease through coaching
 

Education: prevention of disease within our community through raising awareness of healthy lifestyles, early detection/screenings, early treatment and advances in medicine

• Health Fairs and Seminars tentatively planned as follows
   October 26 2008 Women’s Health
   January 2009 Mental Wellness
   April 2009 TBD
   June 2009 TBD
• Workshops for small groups. Topic and audience specific. Potential topics:
Life after breast cancer
Raising physically and mentally challenged children

Shabnam Kimia MAOM
Committee Chair

To contact the Health & Wellness Committee please call IAJF at 323-654-4700 or email info{at}iajf{dot}org.

Committee Members Shadi Toomari PsyD, Elahe Borokhim MSW, Sharon Eshaghoff MSW, Rosa Navi BA, Sharis Saketkhoo MD, Farhad Zomorodi BS, Jasmine Yadegar MS, Gazelle Rastegar MBA
Advisors Manoochehr Yashari MD, Kamran Broukhim MD