Dr. Ovsepian was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1949. She graduated high school at the top of her class in 1965 and entered the Medical School of Yerevan where she graduated in 1972. She then completed a one year internship at the Republican Clinical Tuberculosis Hospital in Yerevan before moving to the small city of Kapan, Armenia. Dr. Ovsepian worked in Kapan for four and a half years and created the Department of Anesthesia, Recovery Unit, and Intensive Care Unit at the city hospital which still are functional today.

In 1977, Dr. Ovsepian returned to Yerevan where she honed her professional skills in Anesthesia at the Soviet Union Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery. There she specialized in anesthetic management of abdominal and partial-cirrohsis patients. In 1985, Dr. Ovsepian moved to Moscow to undergo research for her Ph.D. in Anesthesia at the Soviet Union Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery. There she studied the effects of ketamine and fentanyl intravenous anesthesia for patients with partial cirrhosis and received her Ph.D. in 1988.

In 1992, Dr. Ovsepian moved to the United States and started her internship in Anesthesiology at USC in 1997. In 1999 Dr. Ovsepian moved to Syracuse, where she completed her residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse in 2001. She remained in Syracuse and practiced at Krause hospital until 2002 when she returned to California. Since 2002, Dr. Ovsepian has practiced at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

Dr. Ovsepian enjoys and specializes in teaching residents neuraxial anesthesia and regional blocks. She is also a member of both the California Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

In her spare time, Dr. Ovsepian is a musician who plays the Kanoon, a traditional Armenian instrument. She also enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking, swimming, and gardening.

She is fluent in Armenian, Russian, and English.

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