Arash Asher, MD
Director, Cancer Survivorship and Rehabilitation
Arash Asher, MD, is the Director of Cancer Survivorship & Rehabilitation at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai. His clinical and research interests focus on the rehabilitation of cancer patients to help restore their maximal functional capacity and quality of life. He has a special interest in the physical and rehabilitative needs of cancer survivors who continue to experience the effects of their cancer or its treatment. Dr. Asher's expertise is in the non-pharmacologic management of pain, cancer-related fatigue, neuropathy, exercise prescription for cancer patients, and the management of weakness, spasticity and other musculoskeletal problems.
Dr. Asher completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center, a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the UCLA/Greater Los Angeles VA, and a cancer rehabilitation fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He is board certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Dr. Asher has written the lymphedema summary for health care professionals for the National Cancer Institute and his research on the effects of exercise on peripheral arterial disease was published as abstracts.
Dr. Asher graduated summa cum laude from Claremont McKenna College with a
bachelor's of arts degree in Neuroscience. He earned his medical degree from the
University of Rochester School of Medicine.
