Dr.Arista Shojaeddin
Experience
- President of the Iranian medical laser association, 2023-Now
- Honorary Professor of Medical Lasers for the Iranian Medical Laser Association, 2017
- Founder and director of Pouya dynamic health prevention and promotion center, 2021-2022
- Member of the board of directors of the panel of therapeutic lasers in the congress of new medical lasers, 2014
- Executive Secretary of the 11th Annual Conference of the Scientific Association of Laser Medicine of Iran (2016)
- Collaboration with Bineshe No Psychological center for 4 years between 2014 and 2018 which led to publication of two articles on the efficacy of laser acupuncture and ISTDP treatment on depression and the role of therapeutic lasers and mindfulness on psychosomatic pain.
- Chair of the Medical Laser Committee of General Practitioners of the Scientific Association of Laser Medicine of Iran, 2016-2018
- Writer of 40 articles in Jamejam Newspaper Health column since January 2020
- Producer of a documentary about Autism Entitled “Facing Ambiguity”, 2014
- Executive Secretary of Medical Laser Safety Workshop, 2010-2011
- Head of laser consultation group in medicine, Iranian Medical laser Association, 2013
- The executive secretary of the first congress on the use of lasers in surgery, 2018
Education
- Mindfulness training workshop, Autumn 2019, Atiye Hospital under supervision of Amirhossein Imani
- Basic Auriculotherapy Course under the supervision of Professor. Raphael Nogier, 2017, Tehran
- Comprehensive training in Laser Acupuncture and Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) LEVEL 1 and Level 2, European TCM laser academy, 2017
- Laser Therapy Course Level 1, The European organization for qualified clinical education in laser therapy, laser acupuncture and laser frequency therapy (COLLL), 2017, Tehran
- Acupuncture doctor qualification, World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion societies (WFAS), January 2016, China
- Short-term certificate of acupuncture, Beijing 2015
- Advanced Acupuncture training course (300 hours theoretical and 120 hours practical training), Research institute of traditional and alternative medicine, Armenia, 2011
- Chinese Medicine Training course, Tehran University’s Training Center, 2008
- Low Level Laser Therapy Program (56 hours theory and 100 hours practice), Sweden Laser-Medical Society in partnership with Iranian Medical Laser Association, 2005
- Preliminary Laser Therapy Program, Iranian Medical Laser Association, 2005
- Postgraduate Diploma of Laser medicine, Russian Ministry of Public Health Laser Medical Research and Clinical Center, Iran, October 2004
- Professional doctorate in medicine, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, 1998
Certificates
- Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy advanced supervision Workshop with Jon Fredrickson, Stockholm, 29 Feb-4 March 2019 and 11-15 Oct 2019
- EATCM certificate, March 2018
- EATCM certificate, August 2018
- ISTDP workshop with Jon Fredrickson, 2018, Dubai
- Advanced Auricular Acupuncture Training Certificate, EATCM, 2018
- Permanent needle implant diploma, Iran, 2018
- Laser teaching certificate in medical clinical sciences, 2017
- Certificate of laser acupuncture and low power laser and laser therapy (LLLT), 2017
- Medical Qi-Gong workshop certificate, 2017, USC
- Laser-therapy training certificate, 2017, COLL
- Certificate of participation in Acupuncture Seminar in Neurological Diseases Association, Iranian Acupuncture Association, 2016
- Certificate of participation in the International Management Principles and Techniques Summit focusing on the analysis of internal organizational problems, 2016
- Certificate of the national congress honoring entrepreneurs and competent Iranian managers, Mashhad, 2017
- Certificate of participation in Jon Frederickson’s psychodynamic therapy workshop, May 2017
- Certificate of participation in the management conference in the third millennium 2016
- Certificate of participation in International theoretical and practical specialized seminar on reflex-therapy and energy-therapy, 2012, Yerevan, Armenia
- Certificate of Clinical Applications of Laser in Medicine, 2013, Iran Laser Medicine Scientific Association
- Laser safety certificate in medicine, 2009
- Laser therapy certificate from the Scientific Association of Laser Medicine of Iran, 2004
- Acupuncture certificate from Acupuncture Studies and Research Center, Iran, 2005
Research and publications
- Evaluation of Laser Acupuncture in the treatment of Fatty liver,2023
- Evaluation of laser acupuncture in the treatment of obesity and associated metabolic disorders,2023
- Examination of the use of intravenous laser in the treatment of lung infection and kidney damage in patients with COVID-19, 2023
- The Clinical Effects of Laser Acupuncture on Hospitalized Patients With Severe COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial, 2023 (https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/jlms/article/view/39829)
- The experience of pain among patients who suffer from chronic pain: The role of suppression and mindfulness in the pain sensitivity and the autonomic nervous system activity, 2022
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358730944_The_experience_of_pain_among_patients_who_suffer_from_chronic_pain_The_role_of_suppression_and_mindfulness_in_the_pain_sensitivity_and_the_autonomic_nervous_system_activity)The Efficacy of Laser Acupuncture and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression: A Randomized Control Trial in Iran, 2022 (Under publication)
Seminars
- Presenting the paper entitled “The clinical effects of Laser Acupuncture on hospitalized patients with severe Covid 19”, World Association for photobiomodulation Therapy (WALT) Congress, 2023, India
- Presenting the paper entitled “the clinical effectiveness of laser acupuncture along with short-term dynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of depression”, The Brain Mapping Congress, 2023
- Speech entitled “The use of photobiomodulation in diabetic foot ulcers”, The Congress of Social and Preventive Medicine Specialists, 2022
- Webinar speaker on “obesity and corrective solutions”, 2022
- Webinar speaker on “peripheral neuropathy management of diabetes”, 2021
- Speech entitled “Laser acupuncture”, The 7th annual conference of Iran Medical Laser Association, 2019
- Speech entitled “Comparison of laser therapy in the treatment of cellulite with diet therapy”, 5th Medical Laser Congress, 2018
- Speech entitled “Laser in pain”, Congress of General Practitioners, 2017
- Lecture entitled “Comparison of the effectiveness of laser acupuncture with acupuncture in overweight patients”, 2016
- “Effectiveness of intensive and short-term dynamic psychotherapy with laser acupuncture in improving psychosomatic pain disorder”, 2014
- Speech entitled “Generalities of Laser in Acupuncture” at the New Medical Laser Congress, 2014
- Speech entitled “Low level laser in hair growth”, 2013
- Lecture entitled “Laser and sports medicine”, continuing education of the medical community of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
- Speech delivered in the first laser seminar in surgery, 2008
- Speech entitled “Evaluation of the effect of laser therapy in the treatment of cellulite” at the Cellulite Congress, 2008
Workshops
- Responsible for holding the specialized laser acupuncture course of Iranian Medical Laser Association, 2016-2018
- Holding a specialized workshop on laser resonance and laser acupuncture 2017
- Holding a specialized laser acupuncture workshop at the 11th conference of the Medical Laser Society, 2016
- Responsible for conducting laser acupuncture specialized course 2013
- Workshop on the use of laser acupuncture for pain, 2013
- Holding a workshop on laser therapy in sports medicine, 2012
- Holding a workshop on laser and its applications in medicine at the national conference of general practitioners in 2015
- Holding a laser therapy workshop at the 9th national medical-sports conference
- Responsible for training workshops of Iranian Medical Laser Association since 2012
Memberships and Panels
- Member of the World Association of Photobiomodulation Laser Therapy (WALT), 2016-Now
- Member of World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion societies (WFAS) 2015
- Member of the Q&A panel on laser application in cancer palliative care at the 8th Medical Laser Congress, 2012
- Member of the scientific and executive panel of the annual congress of the Iranian Medical Laser Association, 2011-2014
- Member of the Council of the scientific educational center of laser application in medicine since 2017
- Member of the Iranian Medical Laser Association since 2010
- Member of the Iranian Acupuncture Association 2011
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Scientific Association of Laser Medicine of Iran since 2011
- Member of the European Medical Laser Association, EMLA, 2007