Regional Physician Director, Weight Management and Clinical Nutrition, Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Assistant Area Medical Director, Medical Specialties and Hospitalist, Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Board Certified in Nephrology, Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine

President and Past Secretary/Treasurer of the Clinical Section, the Obesity Society

Founder of the nonprofit SELF Principle, provider of evidence-based nutrition and wellness information

Former Treasurer and Board of Directors member, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Co-Chair, Lifestyle Medicine in Health Systems Member Interest Group, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Author or co-author of seven articles related to nephrology, obesity or lifestyle medicine in peer-reviewed research journals

Recipient of numerous awards related to teaching, mentoring or professional service

Practicing nephrologist Sean Hashmi, MD MS FASN earned his Doctorate in Medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine after receiving a Master of Science degree in Physiological Science from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and he went on to complete an Internal Medicine residency and a Nephrology fellowship at UCLA.  He is also certified in Obesity Medicine by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and is the President and Past Secretary/Treasurer of the Clinical Section of the Obesity Society.  He has served since 2011 in many capacities in his full-time practice at Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG), currently holding the positions of:  Regional Physician Director, Weight Management and Clinical Nutrition;  Assistant Area Medical Director, Medical Specialties;  and Hospitalist.  Past leadership roles at SCPMG included Medical Staff President, Interim Chief of Allergy and Immunology, SCPMG Board of Directors member, and several positions addressing physician burnout via innovative self-care programs.

Dr. Hashmi is the author or co-author of seven articles related to nephrology, obesity or lifestyle medicine in peer-reviewed research journals, and he has lectured in a variety of settings about these subjects, particularly covering nutrition and chronic kidney disease in recent years.  He is the founding director of SELF Principle, a nonprofit that provides evidence-based health, nutrition, and wellness information non-commercially to the public,and that supports children’s education worldwide with school supplies, scholarships and more.  He is also the Co-Chair of the Lifestyle Medicine in Health Systems Member Interest Group, and a former Treasurer and Board of Directors member, at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

After arriving in the U.S. at age ten, and prior to his medical career, Dr. Hashmi was long a practicer, instructor and studio manager in martial arts fields, and he still regards substantial physical activity as natural and necessary as eating.  At the tragic occasion of the illness and death of a family member at a young age, he judged her healthcare to have been poor and shamefully inattentive.  He then promised that he would become a physician, and one who would truly care about his patients, and who would try to make a difference in the life of every person he came across.  Kaiser Permanente has honored him with the Physician Exceptional Contribution Award and the Everyday Hero award, as well as the Faculty of the Year Award at Woodland Hills Family Medicine Residency where he has long served as a mentor.  In recognition of his efforts, he was also selected to walk alongside Kaiser Permanente's 2012 Rose Parade float, "Every Body Walk!" and 2014 Rose Parade float "First Steps to Total Health", and named by the nonprofit SOSMentor as a Wellness Mentor Champion.