Who is Dr. Afrasiabi?

Dr. Afrasiabi is a board certified allergist and clinical immunologist who has been in medical practice in Chico since September 1994. He is currently an associate clinical professor of medicine in the division of allergy, rheumatology, and clinical immunology at UC Davis.

He graduated from Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran, with an M.D in medicine in 1977. Dr. Afrasiabi’s interest and passion for immunology and immunologic diseases goes back to early years when he was a second year medical student. He studied immunopathology of intestinal lymphoma at the University of Chicago in 1975 and later continued his research in experimental immunology at UCLA in 1976. Dr. Afrasiabi received a scholarship by the UCLA Center of Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology and Disease, where he worked as a postdoctoral scholar in immunology between 1983 and 1985 under the directorship of Professor John L. Fahey. His focus of research was AIDS and Kaposi sarcoma which led to several publications.

Dr. Afrasiabi later completed his internship in pathology at UCLA between 1985 and 1986. He completed internal medicine residency at St. Mary Hospital, affiliated with Yale University in the years 1986-88. He returned to UCLA to do his fellowship in allergy and clinical immunology between 1988 and 1990 under the directorship of Dr. Andrew Saxon. Dr. Afrasiabi became board certified in internal medicine in 1988, and in diagnostic laboratory immunology in 1990. He was certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology in 1995 and recently recertified in October 2005.

Dr. Afrasiabi is a Fellow of American Academy and College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. He is a member of Butte-Glenn Medical Society, Sacramento Valley Allergy Society, California Medical Association, and American College of Rheumatology, as well as an active member of Enloe Hospital staff and UC Davis consultant staff.

He has been active in community service and teaching in the last 11 years, giving numerous lectures in Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology. Dr. Afrasiabi and his family live in Chico, and his hobbies include astronomy, bird watching, poetry, and travel.