Dr. Simoyan is a physician educator who is committed to a holistic approach to healthcare and education. As an addiction medicine specialist, she is passionate about leveraging our understanding of how the brain and neural networks function to inform our approach to mental health, addictions, and the learning process.

Dr. Simoyan has combined her interests in writing and photography in several books, including Transformation and Recovery - Lessons from the Butterfly, a workbook in which the stages of change are compared with the stages of the butterfly’s life cycle. Girls Become Doctors and Much More is part memoir, and features profiles of over 60 women physicians from around the world. In Giraffes are Amazing!, readers are introduced to the various features of giraffes’ anatomy and physiology that make them so unique. Dr. Simoyan strongly believes in the need to transform education and healthcare, with a focus on creativity, problem solving and integration of the arts and sciences.

Dr. Simoyan’s scholarships and awards include the Emerging Leader award from the Family Medicine Education Consortium (2010) and the American Association of Medical College’s Herbert Nickens Faculty Fellowship (2012). She also received the Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold Gold Foundation (2022) and the Award of Excellence in Humanitarian Services from Pro-Health International (2022). She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a fellow of the American Medical Women’s Association.