Dr. Saidinejad is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves as the Director for the Institute for Health Services and Outcomes Research at the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor UCLA. He also serves as the director of patient experience and pediatric research and scholarship at Harbor UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine.  He has been involved in multiple national organizations, including being the past chair of the pediatric emergency medicine committee at ACEP, chair of the PEM interest group at SAEM, and is a current member of the AAP COPEM.  He is also a member of the executive core and one the domain leads for the Knowledge Management Domain of the EMS for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC) and the co-lead for the Communications Service Core and member of the mental health domain for the Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN). Dr. Saidinejad has his research and advocacy concentration in pediatric mental health in the Emergency Department (ED), including ED-based interventions and has led the development of the Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kits for suicide and agitation for the EIIC. He is the lead author of the upcoming AAP, ACEP, and ENA joint policy statement and technical paper on the role of emergency medicine clinicians in the assessment and treatment of children with acute mental and behavioral health presentations.