Hashem Vahabzadeh

Dr. Hashem Vahabzadeh-Monshie, MD is founder of Greater Washington Arthritis, Rheumatology and Osteoporosis Center in Northern Virginia. He is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

Dr. Monshie successfully graduated on Top one percent of medical graduates from Azad University of Medical Sciences, where he received the Dean award for excellence in medicine; he completed his internship and residency in New York and after completion of two years rheumatology research fellowship at MedStar Research Institute, subsequently completed his Rheumatology fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.

During the fellowship, he pursued training in musculoskeletal Ultrasound to use this modality to diagnose joint and soft tissue rheumatism and perform precise ultrasound-guided joint injections.

Dr. Monshie is a fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and member of Virginia Rheumatism Society VRS and has participated in publishing multiple abstracts and manuscripts which were published in the American Journal of Rheumatology Arthritis Rheumatism and Clinical Rheumatology, Journal of the international league of Association for Rheumatology .

Dr. Monshie has earned award for top abstract and oral presentation at 6th Annual Congress of Clinical Rheumatology and National Young Rheumatology Investigator and award for top poster at 10th Annual Rheumatology Fellows Forum from Rheumatism Society of District of Columbia in May, 2012.

Dr. Monshie has interest in managing Rheumatoid Arthritis, Gout, Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, Psoriatic arthritis and Lupus. Some of Dr. Monshie's abstracts and publication are listed below:

- Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in African-American patients-the need to measure disease burden
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Uveitis in US Veterans with Seronegative Spondyloarthritis
- Psoriatic Arthritis in a Diverse Ethnic Cohort