Get to know Anesthesiologist Dr. Margaret Aranda, who serves patients in West Hills, California.
Dr. Aranda is a prolific author, inspirational speaker, empathetic advocate, and well-versed anesthesiologist with subspecialty training in critical care. She is the Founder of Aranda MD Enterprises in West Hills, California. With a personal insight into rejuvenating patients back to their best possible health, her services include pain management in a caring manner for patients with a type of chronic pain that is never going to change, age management, weight control, hair loss, and regenerative medicine. She focuses on sleep, diet, supplements and pain medications, with the use of sex hormone replacement, platelet-rich plasma, exozomes, and neurogenesis. Graduating high school at age 16, Dr. Aranda entered college just to come down with chicken pox. By 19, she had California Cosmetology and Real Estate licenses. She went to college to get her broker’s license but became pre-med at the beckoning of Scotty Pedesky, Health Educator. As President of the Sepulveda VA’s Pre-Med Club and winner of the Sigma Xi Research Symposium, then as recipient of the National Foundation for Biochemical Research Award, she studied cancer research with Dr. Steven Oppenheimer at California State University, Northridge. Going down the medical path, she obtained her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, after which she went on to complete her residency in anesthesiology with subspecialty training in critical care at LAC+USC Medical Center and Stanford University, respectively. Her PhD is in forensic science; her thesis was on women’s health.
Margaret Aranda, MD, PhD, is a top age management physician, weight loss specialist, and established author who works at her private practice in West Hills, CA. She is also an Editor in Chief at SaySaga Inspirational Publishing, Music&Art Production, Advertising Ltd. Co. Author of No More Tears: A Physician-Turned-Patient Inspires Recovery, Dr. Aranda has been bedridden for seven years after a 2006 car accident. A Stanford-trained anesthesiologist and intensivist, she suffered rare symptoms that stumped the doctors so badly that she was accused of malingering, faking illness. Then they found the traumatic brain injury with DI, vertebral artery dissection with aneurysm, dysautonomia, and other injuries. Her experience inspired her to write No More Tears: A Physician-Turned-Patient Inspires Recovery. A prolific writer and advocate for invisible illnesses, women’s health and patient safety, Dr. Aranda is a trauma survivor. Her near-death experience solidified her spirituality and faith in God and her latest book, The Rebel Patient, describes the “inner circle” story of what patients have to go through when they have an invisible illness that stumps the doctors. For more information about Margaret Aranda, MD, PhD, please visit 
Dr. Margaret Aranda always believed in being a healer. In her eyes, healing wasn’t only about her profession, but it was adding to quality of life of her patients; more often than not, even when those people weren’t her patients officially. She had strong and humanistic principles when it came to her profession. Then she has been through an incredibly difficult chain of events that brought her where she is in life, now. With a life-changing car accident, she became one of those patients she always cared for. However, the science of medicine was inadequate to diagnose what her illness was. While fighting for her own life, trying to go around the insufficiency, irresponsibility, or simply insensitivity of some other doctors, who were supposed to help her, she had to face some of the ugliest aspects of medicine industry herself. She had to experience the situation of the most helpless patients from first hand. Since she was a strong believer of God, eventually, she realized that Lord was making her understand some very important matters in healing, and that she should and could help other people even more. With her extensive knowledge in medicine, she reached to a point where she diagnosed her own situation, instead of depending other doctors who failed her. Then she found some fellow doctors who were as idealistic as she was, and she managed to raise the quality of her life. Just like that phrase, “What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger,” in her own word, being one of those “one in a million” people, who always refuses to give up, who fights for just one more minute, Dr. Margaret Aranda is back to life as stronger than ever. She understands that being a doctor isn’t confined between the walls of a surgery room. In this book, along with her expert knowledge on medicine, she tells us her story of an amazing battle not only against death, but also those who don’t realize the importance of their professions.
Margaret Aranda, MD, PhD, is a 1990-graduate of Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, California, where she transferred from Oral Roberts University. Her postgraduate training includes her anesthesiology residency and critical care fellowship performed at Stanford School of Medicine/LAC-USC Medical Center. Dr. Aranda completed her Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology education at California State University-Northridge in Northridge, California, in 1985. She attained board certification in anesthesiology with the American Board of Anesthesiology, and holds additional certificates in critical care medicine, age management medicine, and forensic medicine. Furthermore, Dr. Aranda studied at Cenegenics Medical Institute, where she specialized in age management (2010-2012). For more information about Margaret Aranda, MD, PhD, please visit 
Margaret Aranda, MD, PhD - Age Management Physician and Author 