Dr. Mohsen Davoudi went to medical school with a background in pure math and physics.  Upon obtaining his medical doctorate from Tehran University, he continued his training in surgery and pediatric surgery at Tehran University, and at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland.  He developed an interest in evidence based medicine and outcomes research, and followed this interest by pursuing training at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford, UK), Harvard Medical School, and the Yale University Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), affiliated with the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.  After completing a residency in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, he pursued subspecialty training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). During this time, he also completed a research fellowship and obtained a Master in Advanced Studies (MAS) in clinical research and study design from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  Dr. Davoudi joined the faculty at UCI as health sciences clinical instructor and is currently completing a one year Interventional Pulmonary fellowship.

Dr. Davoudi has multiple interests both within and outside of medicine. In addition to his expertise in outcomes research and study design, he has grasped many complex concepts pertaining to general medical education, and the use of simulation technology in particular. He has espoused the paradigm in which patients need no longer bear the burden of procedure-related training, and continues to devote research energies and his writing abilities to promoting this learning model. As an interventional pulmonologist, he has expertise in rigid bronchoscopy, laser resection and stent insertion, thoracoscopy and pleuroscopy, and percutaneous tracheotomy in addition to numerous other techniques. Other interests include: (1) Computer technology and applications in medicine; (2) Education and competency-based assessment– measurement of educational efficacy – test design and validation; (3) Curriculum design for bronchoscopy and interventional pulmonary procedures; (4) Simulation technology and the use of simulation in bronchoscopy and interventional pulmonary procedures; (5) Outcomes of interventional pulmonary procedures in the elderly population; and (6) database design for use in interventional procedures but also in lung cancer staging and outcomes-oriented staging.

Dr. Davoudi is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the World Association for Bronchology, and the American Association for Bronchology. Dr. Davoudi has been an active health care provider in the area of international humanitarian assistance, having contributed in multiple medical missions during peacetime and periods of conflict, such as in Rwanda.

On a personal note, Dr. Davoudi is fluent in several languages, is an accomplished alpine climber, motorcylist and is an avid reader of history, philosophy, sociology and political sciences.