Biography

Dr. Nahid J. Rianon is a Professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

Dr. Rianon serves as the Vice Chair of Quality Improvement and the Director of Faculty Development in the Department of Family & Community Medicine.

Dr. Rianon holds cross-appointments with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences.

She precepts at our UT Physicians Family Medicine clinic and attends at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.

She is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

As a member of the McGovern Medical School Faculty Senate Mental Health Task Force, Dr. Rianon is an advocate for faculty wellness.  Following information was developed by the STFM Destigmatizing Mental Health Care Work Group and has valuable information on reducing mental health stigma in faculty:  https://stfm.org/mentalhealthstigma

Education

Medical School
MBBS - (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery), Salimullah Medical College, SSMC, Dhaka, Bangladesh 1992
Masters in Public Health
The University of Texas Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 1997
DrPH - Doctorate in Public Health
The University of Texas Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 2008
Residency - Family Medicine
UTHealth Houston formerly known as The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 2004-2007
Fellowship/Geriatric Epidemiology Concentration - Skeletal Health
The National Institute on Aging/NIH - 08/2007-08/2008
Fellowship - Academic and Clinical Geriatrics
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 09/2008-06/2010