AshkanFarhadiMDMS, FACP, FACG

Gastroenterology • Fountain Valley, CA

Director, MemorialCare Medical Group

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Office
18035 Brookhurst St
suit 2100
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Phone+1 657-241-9090
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Education & Training

Rush University Medical CenterFellowship, Gastroenterology, 2003 - 2006
Rush University Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2002 - 2004
Shiraz University of Medical SciencesClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2008 - 2026
IL State Medical License 2002 - 2011
American Board of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification NextGen Ambulatory EHR, NextGen Healthcare, 2012
Fellow (FACG) American College of Gastroenterology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

10 citations
Connecting Our Gut Feeling and How Our Gut Feels: The Role of Well-being Attributes in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Ashkan Farhadi, Dwaine Banton, Laurie Keefer> ;Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 2018 Apr 30
Whole colonic EUS with use of a novel device: in vivo animal study
Ashkan Farhadi, Vahid Saadat, Richard Ewer> ;Videogie. 2016 Dec 1
6 citations
Non-Chemical Distant Cellular Interactions as a potential confounder of cell biology experiments.
Ashkan Farhadi> ;Frontiers in Physiology. 2014 Oct 17
129 citations
Electromagnetic cellular interactions.
Michal Cifra, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ashkan Farhadi> ;Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 2011 May 1
39 citations
The role of oral hygiene in inflammatory bowel disease.
Shashideep Singhal, Delia Dian, Ali Keshavarzian, Louis Fogg, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ashkan Farhadi> ;Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2011 Jan 1
71 citations
Pattern of alcohol consumption and its effect on gastrointestinal symptoms in inflammatory bowel disease
Garth Swanson, Shahriar Sedghi, Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Alcohol. 2010 May 1
12 citations
Effects of aspirin on gastroduodenal permeability in alcoholics and controls.
Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian, Mary J. Kwasny, Maliha W. Shaikh, Louis Fogg, Cynthia Lau, Jeremy Z. Fields, Christopher B. Forsyth> ;Alcohol. 2010 Aug 1
80 citations
Nitric oxide-mediated intestinal injury is required for alcohol-induced gut leakiness and liver damage.
Yueming Tang, Christopher B. Forsyth, Ashkan Farhadi, Jayanthi Rangan, Shriram Jakate, Maliha W. Shaikh, Ali Banan, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research. 2009 Jul 1
273 citations
Lactobacillus GG treatment ameliorates alcohol-induced intestinal oxidative stress, gut leakiness, and liver injury in a rat model of alcoholic steatohepatitis.
Christopher B. Forsyth, Ashkan Farhadi, Shriram Jakate, Yueming Tang, Maliha Shaikh, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Alcohol. 2009 Mar 1
3 citations
SIMDOT-AbMe: Microphysiologically Based Simulation Tool for Quantitative Prediction of Systemic and Local Bioavailability of Targeted Oral Delivery Formulations
Nahor Haddish-Berhane, Ashkan Farhadi, Chell Nyquist, Kamyar Haghighi, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Drug Metabolism and Disposition. 2009 Mar 1
256 citations
Evidence that chronic alcohol exposure promotes intestinal oxidative stress, intestinal hyperpermeability and endotoxemia prior to development of alcoholic steatohepat...
Ali Keshavarzian, Ashkan Farhadi, Christopher B. Forsyth, Jayanthi Rangan, Shriram Jakate, Maliha Shaikh, Ali Banan, Jeremy Z. Fields> ;Journal of Hepatology. 2009 Mar 1
172 citations
Susceptibility to gut leakiness: a possible mechanism for endotoxaemia in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
Ashkan Farhadi, Sushama Gundlapalli, Maliha Shaikh, Constantine T. Frantzides, Laura Harrell, Mary Morrissey Kwasny, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Liver International. 2008 Aug 1
59 citations
Atopic irritable bowel syndrome: a novel subgroup of irritable bowel syndrome with allergic manifestations
Mary C. Tobin, Bhavani Moparty, Ashkan Farhadi, Mark T. DeMeo, Priya J. Bansal, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. 2008 Jan 1
12 citations
Reduced immunostaining for c-kit receptors in mucosal mast cells in inflammatory bowel disease.
Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian, Jeremy Z. Fields, Shriram Jakate, Maliha Shaikh, Ali Banan> ;Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2007 Dec 1
166 citations
Impact of sleep disturbances in inflammatory bowel disease.
Ziba Ranjbaran, Laurie Keefer, Ashkan Farhadi, Edward J. Stepanski, Shahriar Sedghi, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2007 Nov 1
22 citations
Evidence for non-chemical, non-electrical intercellular signaling in intestinal epithelial cells
Ashkan Farhadi, Christopher B. Forsyth, Ali Banan, Maliha Shaikh, Phillip A. Engen, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Bioelectrochemistry. 2007 Nov 1
15 citations
Acute effects of carprofen and meloxicam on canine gastrointestinal permeability and mucosal absorptive capacity.
Melanie Craven, Marge Chandler, Jörg M. Steiner, Ashkan Farhadi, Elizabeth Welsh, Kathryn M. Pratschke, Darren J. Shaw, David A. Williams> ;Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2007 Sep 1
62 citations
Mucosal mast cells are pivotal elements in inflammatory bowel disease that connect the dots: stress, intestinal hyperpermeability and inflammation.
Ashkan Farhadi, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ali Keshavarzian> ;World Journal of Gastroenterology. 2007 Jun 14
45 citations
Regulation of Oxidant-Induced Intestinal Permeability by Metalloprotease-Dependent Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling
Christopher B. Forsyth, Ali Banan, Ashkan Farhadi, Jeremy Z. Fields, Yueming Tang, Maliha W. Shaikh, L. J. Zhang, Phillip A. Engen, Ali Keshavarzian> ;The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2007 Apr 1
7 citations
Biological variability and targeted delivery of therapeutics for inflammatory bowel diseases: an in silico approach.
Nahor Haddish-Berhane, Ashkan Farhadi, Chell Nyquist, Kamyar Haghighi, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Inflammation & Allergy Drug Targets. 2007 Feb 28
124 citations
The relevance of sleep abnormalities to chronic inflammatory conditions.
Z. Ranjbaran, Laurie Keefer, Edward J. Stepanski, Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian> ;Inflammation Research. 2007 Feb 1
33 citations
Resolution of common dietary sugars from probe sugars for test of intestinal permeability using capillary column gas chromatography
Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian, Jeremy Z. Fields, Maliha Sheikh, Ali Banan> ;Journal of Chromatography. B, Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences. 2006 May 19
21 citations
A multi-scale stochastic drug release model for polymer-coated targeted drug delivery systems.
Nahor Haddish-Berhane, Chell Nyquist, Kamyar Haghighi, Carlos Corvalan, Ali Keshavarzian, Osvaldo H. Campanella, Jenna L. Rickus, Ashkan Farhadi> ;Journal of Controlled Release. 2006 Jan 10
66 citations
The role of protein kinase C isoforms in modulating injury and repair of the intestinal barrier.
Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian, Ziba Ranjbaran, Jeremy Z. Fields, Ali Banan> ;The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2006 Jan 1
63 citations
Heightened responses to stressors in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Ashkan Farhadi, Ali Keshavarzian, Louis D Van de Kar, Shriram Jakate, Aaron Domm, L. J. Zhang, Maliha Shaikh, Ali Banan, Jeremy Z. Fields> ;The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2005 Aug 1
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