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Sachita Shah, MD, DTM&H

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington

Dr. Sachita Shah is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in 2008 at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Emergency Ultrasound fellowship training at Alameda County (Highland Hospital) Medical Center, and received her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Lima, Peru in 2018.

Dr. Shah serves as Fellowship Director of the UW Global Emergency Medicine and Rural Health Fellowship Program, in collaboration with the Alaska Native Medical Center and Great Plains IHS. She works clinically at Harborview Medical Center, an academic trauma center and county referral hospital in Seattle, and at Alaska Native Medical Center, a hub for the tribal health consortium in Alaska. Dr. Shah is an internationally known expert in the field of point-of-care ultrasound in limited resource settings and leads the educational initiatives in the UW Department of Emergency Medicine, Section of Population Health. Her main academic focus is the development of educational community and techniques in population health, specifically global & rural health and social emergency medicine topics. Her main research focus is impact of point-of-care ultrasound in limited resource settings to promote health equity in emergency care and maternal health.

Scott Owens

Jodie Totten

Daniel Ballew

Chelsea Williams

Matthew Fuller

Jane Yee, MD

GH Program Director

Lucy Unger

Michael Morgan

Matthew Stewart

Mathew Fuller

Carl Seger

Branden Skarpiak

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH

Associate Chair, Emergency Population Health and Innovation

Harbor UCLA Medical Center

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH, is the Associate Chair of Emergency Population Health and Innovation for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, and a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. In her current role, Dr. Parmar navigates the continuum between population health and acute emergency care, leading emergency department efforts to innovate healthcare delivery models and optimize patient care efforts. During the first 16 years of her career, Dr. Parmar's research focused on the study of health and human rights violations in refugees and internally displaced populations. Dr. Parmar has worked in multiple settings on issues such as emergency care deliver, maternal and child health, gender-based violence, and primary care provision. She coordinated the investigation of the Rohingya genocide with Physicians for Human Rights in 2018, and most recently has worked to extend care for non-communicable disease to Syrian refugees living in Jordan and internally displaced persons in Myanmar. She also has conducted research on morbidity and mortality among individuals detained in ICE detention facilities nationwide. Dr. Parmar was the Chief of the Division of Social and Global Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine for 8 years prior to joining Harbor UCLA.

Heather Brown

Daniel Baker

Carly Brady, MD, MSc

Unit Head, Emergency Medicine

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

Michele Groden

Maria Wormley

Priya Arumuganathan