Eric Esrailian

Eric Esrailian is an American physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

[5] In October 2020, Esrailian led a conversation on 'Grit: Why It Matters', featuring leaders such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Brad Gilbert and various deans from the UCLA campus.

The institute is the hub for all human rights scholarship and advocacy in the university and is supported by proceeds from the feature film Esrailian produced in 2016, The Promise, which was set during the Armenian Genocide.

Celebrities, some of who are of Armenian descent, supported and promoted the film, including Cher, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Barbra Streisand, Don Cheadle, and Andre Agassi.

[12] In 2020, Esrailian led members from this institute and UCLA Health to form an interdisciplinary team to provide both immediate medical disaster relief and long-term humanitarian aid and infrastructure support to assist in the stabilization of the healthcare capacity in Armenia during and after war.

[13] Amid reemerging violence in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2020, Esrailian organized a PSA with the help of his friend - singer and Armenian activist Cher - which called for the U.S. to cut off aid and weapon sales to Azerbaijan and impose sanctions.

[14] Esrailian has also drafted statements for his close friends and Hollywood actors of Armenian descent, to call on the U.S. for more support to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

[15] In 2023, Esrailian wrote an Op-Ed with Cher for Newsweek describing the need to support Armenians in the face of a potential humanitarian catastrophe due to Azerbaijan's blockade of the Lachin corridor.

[19] Esrailian, Sean Parker, and Casey Wasserman, were highlighted as innovative and entrepreneurial philanthropists as part of UCLA's magazine about the impact of philanthropy on the future of medicine and science.

[25] In 2015, Esrailian was announced as a manager and producer for Kirk Kerkorian's production company which was set up to raise awareness about the Armenian genocide using a scripted film and documentary combination – Survival Pictures.