Dr. Margaret Aranda's professional background includes expertise in anesthesiology, critical care, forensic medicine, Women's Health, and Age Management Medicine. Her personal background includes being a mother, a friend, and a patient, too. She and her daughter were in a car accident that happened when a lady reached over to pick up her fast food and hit the gas instead of the brakes. This left Dr. Aranda with a traumatic brain injury and other illnesses that were invisible. In The Rebel Patient, she teaches you how she worked to get her diagnoses (and treatment) and tells you what to say! Rallying to persevere and come back against all odds, Dr. Aranda believes in miracles.

2017 Top Doctor, Age Management Medicine, California
2011 Perseverance Award, Invisible Disabilities Association
2004 Certificate of Appreciation, Simulator, David Geffen
2002 Certificate of Appreciation, Primary Care, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
2002 Certificate of Appreciation, Update on Intensive Care Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital
1997, Resident Finalist, Research, Calif. Society of Anesthesiologists
1985 Outstanding Student Award, CSUN President's Club
1985 Cum Laude, CSUN, B.A., Biology
1984 Sigma Xi Research Award, CSUN
1983 Outstanding Young Woman of America
1983 National Foundation for Biochemical Research Award