Dr. Naeim currently serves as Associate Professor of Medicine in the divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Geriatric Medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine. He is also director of both the Geriatric-Oncology Research and Training Program and the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program at UCLA. His career spans a combination of health services, informatics, health policy and quality of care issues.
He holds key organizational roles in the Cancer Center, within UCLA Health, and for the Department of Medicine. He is Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research for the UCLA Campus focusing on strategic planning in research informatics. He is a Senior Leader and Director of Informatics for the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is Chair of the Ronald Reagan Hospital Cancer Committee as well as the Oncology Lead and Clinical Content Coordinator for the Health System’s electronic health record (EHR). He is Director of Quality and Quality Improvement for the Division of Hematology-Oncology. His primary research focus is on breast cancer, and other research interests include outcomes research, cost-effectiveness analysis, modeling of health and frailty, and clinical trial design.
Dr. Naeim has received numerous honors for his research, including an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award, an NIH Mentored Research Award, California Breast Cancer Research Foundation Award, and UC MRPI Award, and most recently a Stop Cancer ICON Award.