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Work & Vision

A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader

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College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ

"The field of psychiatry is changing as new discoveries are made. There are many pioneers using evidence-based medicine to seek out different treatments beyond traditional methods and prescription medication. While medications are helpful for some, and reflect a possible tool in the toolbox, we are also asking them to do what they were not made to do.”

~Dr. Ranjbar, Sparking Wholeness Podcast

About Dr. Ranjbar

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry

  • Training Director, Integrative Psychiatry Program

  • University of Arizona, Tucson

Dr. Noshene Ranjbar is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Integrative Psychiatry Clinic at Banner - UMC South. She also serves as the Training Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Ranjbar’s interests include integrative psychiatry, health disparities with a focus on Native American and immigrant mental health, and mind-body medicine. Dr. Ranjbar is involved in advocacy for refugees seeking asylum to the United States. She graduated from the UArizona COM-T Psychiatry residency program in 2012, and Harvard's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship through Boston Children's Hospital, in 2014.

Dr. Ranjbar's Vision

Dr. Ranjbar's vision is to advocate for a holistic, comprehensive, culturally-sensitive, empowering approach to mental health and well-being for person, communities, and populations impacted by trauma, poverty, and health disparities. She aim to collaborate closely with community stakeholders and organizations to utilize a train-the-trainer, skills-based approach to enhance sustainable methods of supporting mental health. Towards this aim, Dr. Ranjbar, along with a group of Indigenous women leaders, founded a nonprofit, EARTH: Empowering All Relatives To Heal, to deepen a network of collaborating persons, organizations, and efforts towards this aim. 

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Professional Focus

Noshene Ranjbar, MD, is originally from Iran and now lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the Integrative Psychiatry Program at the University of Arizona. Dr. Ranjbar also serves as Core Faculty with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and Faculty, Supervisor, and Project Advisor, for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Since 2010, she has been involved in the development of trauma-informed programs using a train-the-trainer model of mind-body medicine in Native American/First Nation/Alaska Native Communities. Using strength-based, culturally-sensitive, and community-focused approaches, she leads groups, workshops, and trainings for American Indian youth and adults to address diverse challenges linked to historical, inter-generational, developmental, and complex trauma.
 

Topics of Interest

  • Behavioral and Mental Health

  • Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

  • Therapeutic Education

  • Health Care Access

  • Health Care Quality

  • Public, Population, and Community Health

  • Social Sector/Nonprofit

  • Trauma & Historical Trauma

  • Toxic Stress

  • Spirituality in Health & Healing

  • Mind-Body Medicine

Populations Served

  • Adolescents (12-20 years)

  • Adults (21-64 years)

  • At-Risk/Vulnerable Populations

  • Impoverished Communities

  • Children and Families

  • Foster Youth and Families

  • Native/Tribal/Indigenous People

  • Traumatized Individuals/Populations

  • Rural Communities

  • Women & Girls

  • LGBTQ2S

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