Nima Afshar • UCSF Profiles

Nima Afshar, MD

Title(s)	Clinical Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	4150 Clement Street, #101 San Francisco CA 94121
Phone	415-221-4810 ext. 22502
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Biography

Education and Training

University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI	M.D.	06/2000	Medicine
Stanford University, Stanford, CA		06/2001	Emergency Medicine
UCSF, San Francisco, CA		06/2004	Internal Medicine
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI		10/2006	Emergency Medicine

Awards and Honors

Dep of Veterans Affairs	2021		Federal Employee of the Year, nominee
UCSF	2017		Academy of Medical Educators, inductee
UCSF	2013		Academy of Medical Educators Teaching Award
UCLA	1995 -	1996	Phi Beta Kappa/Summa Cum Laude

Overview

Note: This is NOT the former postdoctoral fellow by the same name who left UCSF after findings of research misconduct. This Nima Afshar is a clinician educator, not a basic science researcher.

Dr. Afshar is a physician educator at UCSF and emergency physician/internist based at the San Francisco VA (SFVA). His education interests are point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and acute care medicine. Dr. Afshar founded and directs the Medicine Residency POCUS curriculum, one of the earliest comprehensive POCUS curricula among large academic medicine residency programs. He is Director of Education at the SFVA ED and VA Site Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency.

Interests

point-of-care ultrasound, POCUS, acute care medicine

In The News

Coronavirus and Older Adults (4/2020)

ORNG Applications

Academic Senate

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Publications

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Computational Modelling of Glucose Uptake by SGLT1 and Apical GLUT2 in the Enterocyte. Front Physiol. 2021; 12:699152. Afshar N, Safaei S, Nickerson DP, Hunter PJ, Suresh V. PMID: 34950044; PMCID: PMC8688934.

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Point-of-Care Ultrasound Needs Assessment, Curriculum Design, and Curriculum Assessment in a Large Academic Internal Medicine Residency Program. South Med J. 2018 07; 111(7):444-448. Anstey JE, Jensen TP, Afshar N. PMID: 29978232.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Spinal epidural abscess with discitis and vertebral osteomyelitis. J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Nov; 27(11):1560. Carpenter W, Afshar N, Mihara K. PMID: 22570107; PMCID: PMC3475823.

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Int Internal Medicine
Translation:Humans Cells
Blood cultures for community-acquired pneumonia: are they worthy of two quality measures? A systematic review. J Hosp Med. 2009 Feb; 4(2):112-23. Afshar N, Tabas J, Afshar K, Silbergleit R. PMID: 19219920.

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Hos Hospitals
Translation:Humans
One hundred years later. J Hosp Med. 2008 Nov-Dec; 3(6):483-8. Baudendistel TE, Afshar N, Tierney LM. PMID: 19084898.

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Hos Hospitals
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