About The Author:
Michael Merjanian, M.D. M.M.M is an emergency medicine physician working in multiple community hospitals in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles Ronald Reagan/Olive-View Emergency Medicine program. He earned his M.D. from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and received his Masters of Medical Management from the University of Southern California Marshall Business School.
Applying his medical experience to the field of technology, Dr. Merjanian consults for Titan HST, an emergency communication platform that offers telemedicine (tMed) solutions to both clinics and hospital systems.
Most recently, Dr. Merjanian was featured in Men’s Journal as a “Neighborhood Hero” for his work on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carla Nasca, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral fellow of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in the laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Nasca received her B.A. in Molecular Biology and her M.S. in Electrophysiology from the University of Palermo in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Pharmacology from the University Sapienza in Rome, Italy, before moving to The Rockefeller University under the mentorship of Dr. Bruce McEwen.