Aramn Taghizadeh , M.D. Dr. Taghizadeh was born and raised in the Baltimore area. He graduated from Gilman School where he was an All-American wrestler and a member of the Maryland National Wrestling Team. He attended the University of Maryland College Park and later transferred to James Madison University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He was a NCAA Division I varsity wrestler and earned several achievements including Academic All American and Scholar Athlete. He was awarded a Pre-Medical scholarship and was also JMU’s sole nominee for the NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship. Dr. Taghizadeh attended medical school at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and was selected to be in the Combined Accelerated Program in Psychiatry (CAPP). He completed his General Adult Psychiatry Residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins where he was the Chief Resident. He has served on several committees including Chairman of the Resident and Fellows Committee of the Maryland Psychiatric Society and the Resident Representative of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is currently the Chairman of the Early Career Psychiatrist Committee of the Maryland Psychiatric Society. He has continued to stay active in athletics by exercising regularly and coaching. He served as the Official Ambassador to the Iranian Olympic Wrestling Team at the World Cup in 1999 and 2000. He is combining his knowledge and continued interest in athletics with his medical background and career as a psychiatrist treating athletes and elite professionals with mental health issues, performance anxiety, or other areas of impairment in social or emotional functioning. He works in private practice in Ellicott City, Annapolis, and Millersville, Maryland. View his Curriculum Vitae >back