Los Angeles Psychiatrist
I am currently the Chief Resident Physician of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. I am also the Chief Medical Officer of Alorad, Inc. and the president of the Healthcare Brands Division of that company. I am a graduate of the MD/MBA program at the University of Southern California where I specialized in health systems management and web-based healthcare delivery. I received a Masters of Arts degree in Linguistics from UCLA where I specialized in syntax, semantics, and computational linguistics. .

Publications

Hydroxyzine: Rational choice for inpatients with insomnia Jason Schiffman, MD, MA, MBA; Michael Davis, MD, PhD; Joseph Pierre, MD; C. Scott Saunders, MD Current Psychiatry. 2011 March.

Green tea polyphenols potentiate the action of nerve growth factor to induce neuritogenesis: possible role of reactive oxygen species. Gundimeda U, McNeill TH, Schiffman JE, Hinton DR, Gopalakrishna R. J Neurosci Res. 2010 Dec;88(16):3644-55. doi: 10.1002/jnr.22519. Epub 2010 Oct 8. PMID: 20936703

Negation of the cancer-preventive actions of selenium by over-expression of protein kinase Cepsilon and selenoprotein thioredoxin reductase. Gundimeda U, Schiffman JE, Gottlieb SN, Roth BI, Gopalakrishna R. Carcinogenesis. 2009 Sep;30(9):1553-61. Epub 2009 Jul 3. PMID: 19578042

Locally generated methylseleninic acid induces specific inactivation of protein kinase C isoenzymes: relevance to selenium-induced apoptosis in prostate cancer cells. Gundimeda U, Schiffman JE, Chhabra D, Wong J, Wu A, Gopalakrishna R. J Biol Chem. 2008 Dec 12;283(50):34519-31. Epub 2008 Oct 15. PMID: 18922790

A direct redox regulation of protein kinase C isoenzymes mediates oxidant-induced neuritogenesis in PC12 cells. Gopalakrishna R, Gundimeda U, Schiffman JE, McNeill TH. J Biol Chem. 2008 May 23;283(21):14430-44. Epub 2008 Mar 28. PMID: 18375950