Homelessness and HOPE

Join us for a facinating talk from Dr. Sophia Momand. Dr. Momand will be speaking on the topic of homelessness in Southern California and the medical outreach efforts offered to homeless people. 

Sophia Momand M.D. was born as an identical twin in Shiraz, Iran and came to the U.S.A. at age two. She is the oldest of four children. She went to Redondo Union High School and then graduated from UCLA with a degree in psychobiology. After attending medical school, she became a board-certified family physician in California working in private practice for eleven years followed by two years at Kaiser urgent care and eleven years as jail doctor for the Long Beach Police Department. She has recently retired after twenty years of being the campus doctor for the 17, 000 students of CSUDH in the Student Health Center. From her love of teaching and helping she formed a club on campus in 2005 called H.O.P.E. (short for Homeless Outreach Promoting Empathy) where she mentors students monthly in medically serving the local homeless population of Long Beach.

Her passion includes lecturing on health, Islamic art and classical music to various public groups. While she enjoys playing cello in the Beach Cities and Peninsula Symphony Orchestras she went on to establish her own baroque music group called The Corelli Ensemble which has performed for many organizations including the Huntington and PV Libraries and for the City of Carson. Other hobbies include making puppet shows for kids, gardening, bicycle riding, astronomy, identifying cloud formations and playing guitar with the Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles.