Claire B. Panosian Dunavan is an emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[2] Her mother attended Oregon State University and her parents founded and led a specialist food business.
After graduating Panosian moved to Haiti, where she worked in a rural hospital on the diagnosis of conditions such as malnutrition and malaria.
[1] Panosian completed her specialist training at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, where she conducted research in leishmaniasis.
[8] She has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, Discover magazine and Scientific American.