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Roxana
Diba

Dr. Roxana Diba, Staff Physician @ Police and Fire Clinic

Washington, District of Columbia

Dr. Roxana Diba currently serves as a Staff Physician for PFC Associates, LLC, known as the D.C. Police & Fire Clinic, in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, she provides on-site comprehensive occupational medical services to members of Washington, D.C.’s fire and police departments in the event they experience an injury. In addition to the delivery of high quality medical care, Dr. Roxana Diba supervises medical assistants, residents, mid-level providers, and new doctors. In addition, she frequently interacts with police and fire chiefs, lawyers, and council members regarding the care of her patients and their status for duty. As an expert witness, Dr. Roxana Diba regularly testifies at the DC Police and Fire Retirement Board. Dr. Roxana Diba believes in the importance of keeping current on national guidelines and maintains sufficient Continuing Medical Education (EME) units for her board certification maintenance. As a certified Medical Review Officer, Dr. Roxana Diba holds a special certificate to verify positive urine drug tests.

Dr. Roxana Diba attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 1996. At UCLA, she received her Master of Science in Physiological Science in 1998, and then moved to Galveston, Texas, where she matriculated at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and received her Doctor of Medicine in 2002. Dr. Roxana Diba subsequently completed an internship in internal medicine at the prestigious California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. Following her residency, she spent a year conducting ocular oncology research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and finished her residency in family medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C where she was voted best resident teacher by the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine.

A dedicated volunteer since high school, Dr. Roxana Diba mentored minority students in all stages of her career from medical school until present in an inner city emergency room setting. She volunteers her sports medicine services by conductiong free high school physicals for inner city high school students in Washington D.C. Today, Dr. Roxana Diba still volunteers to teach Georgetown University medical students and Washington Hospital Center residents.


Roxana Diba's Schools

Roxana Diba's Companies

  		•  Police and Fire Clinic 2008
    Staff Physician
    Provide on site medical care to injured D.C. police and fire members.

Roxana Diba's Publications

  • Drug Testing Protects Employers, Employees from Effects of Substance Abuse, Dr. Roxana Diba
    September, 2011
    By Dr. Roxana Diba

    Many employers mandate drug testing as a condition of employment because it enables them to avoid hiring a worker with a substance-abuse problem. Substance abuse in the workplace increases the risk of accidents, absenteeism, and poor performance. A drug test uses scientific means to detect whether a person has recently used illegal drugs, prescription drugs, or alcohol.

    Companies most commonly utilize drug testing to preclude the hiring of a person who uses drugs and alcohol on a regular basis. Drug testing also deters existing staff from abusing drugs and alcohol and allows companies to identify employees who might need to be referred to a medical professional for treatment. Because substance abuse can lead to impaired judgment or abilities and, therefore, an increased risk of mistakes or mishaps, drug testing also serves as a means of protecting other employees, the public, and the company as a whole.

    Some industries require employers to perform drug tests, while others implement drug-testing policies based on careful consideration by owners or management. A number of court decisions support the use of drug testing by employers.

    Urinalysis provides an easy, effective method of testing for drugs. Companies such as A Alliance MDs, PLLC, are available to facilitate drug tests, ensuring the highest level of privacy for the person taking the test as well as accurate, reliable results for the employer. The company safeguards such critical considerations as the chain of custody for handling the specimens, multiple screenings to weed out false positives, a confirmation test if a test comes back with signs of drug or alcohol use, and split samples. A split sample permits multiple tests on a single sample for the purposes of confirmation or further testing.

    About the Author: Dr. Roxana Diba oversees A Alliance MDs, PLLC, to make the testing experience as comfortable as possible. She supervises drug testing and on-site physicals on behalf of the company.