Dr. Mozayeni is an honors graduate of the accelerated Leadership in Medicine Program of Union College and Albany Medical College. As an undergraduate, he had an interest in government and health policy – he had a minor in Political Science and worked on Capitol Hill in the office of Hon. Albert Gore, Jr. He received his MD degree from Albany Medical College. His honors included: Pew Foundation Scholar in the Transplantation Immunology Laboratory, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and one of the first Research Scholars of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He pursued his clinical training at Yale and the NIH. He was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was a Fellow in Rheumatology with the Yale School of Medicine. While at Yale, Dr. Mozayeni was in the Physician-Scientist research residency program and thus, held a simultaneous position as a Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He studied the molecular basis of autoimmune diseases and as a result received a competitive NIH Physician-Scientist Training Award.