Shida Haghighat, MD, MPH

Dr. Haghighat earned her undergraduate degree in biology and international studies with provost honors at University of California, San Diego. She earned her master’s degree in public health and her medical degree simultaneously at University of Miami, where she had the honor of being selected by her classmates as the medical school commencement speaker. She returned home to Los Angeles to complete her internal medicine residency at University of Southern California. Back at the University of Miami, she completed her gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship and received a National Institutes of Health T32 training grant, and conducted research in gastrointestinal cancer disparities.

Dr. Haghighat practices general gastroenterology with clinical expertise in gastrointestinal cancer screening and prevention, irritable bowel syndrome and other disorders of brain-gut interaction, inflammatory bowel disease, esophageal and gastric disorders as well as EGD and colonoscopy.

Dr. Haghighat is fluent in English, Spanish and Farsi. She is an active member of the American Gastroenterology Association and American College of Gastroenterology. Dr. Haghighat is board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine.