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Sriram Shamasunder, MD

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of California San Francisco
DepartmentMedicine
Address533 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco CA 94117
Phone415-476-4830
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    New YorkM.D.2005School of Medicine
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    2012Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar to India(host institution SOCHARA)
    Asia Society2011  - 2012Asia 21 Fellow
    American College of Physicians 2010Young Physician of the Year
    Draper Richards Kaplan2016Social Entrepreneurial Award

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    Sriram Shamasunder completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. As a physician who trained at a public hospital and has provided medical care abroad, Sri is co-founder of the HEAL Initiative, a health workforce strengthening fellowship working in Navajo Nation and 7 countries around the world. HEAL currently has over 50 fellows in 2016.

    He was awarded the Young Physician of the Year in 2010, by the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow by the Asia Foundation in 2012.

    Sri was a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India in 2012 studying innovations of care among tribal health organizations throughout rural India. He is interested in a solidarity that allows for narrative equity as well as health equity. In 2016, he gave a Berkeley Ted X talk entitled "Whose Suffering Matters Less, and Why"?


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    1. Citrin D, Mehanni S, Acharya B, Wong L, Nirola I, Sherchan R, Gauchan B, Karki KB, Singh DR, Shamasunder S, Le P, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Dangal B, Dhungana SK, Maru S, Mahar R, Thapa P, Raut A, Adhikari M, Basnett I, Kaluanee SP, Deukmedjian G, Halliday S, Maru D. Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships: review and reflections on an approach in Nepal. Glob Health Action. 2017; 10(1):1367161. PMID: 28914185.
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    2. Waters A, Wu E, Shamasunder S, Le P. The role of hospitalists in the Ebola response in the United States and abroad. J Hosp Med. 2015 Jan; 10(1):50-3. PMID: 25471530.
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    3. Shamasunder S, Wu E. Global Health Telemedicine Conferences: The System We Save May Be Our Own. J Grad Med Educ. 2014 Dec; 6(4):634-5. PMID: 26140109; PMCID: PMC4477552.
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    4. Watkins ER, Shamasunder S, Cascino T, White KL, Katrak S, Bern C, Schwartz BS. Visceral leishmaniasis-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a traveler returning from a pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago. J Travel Med. 2014 Nov-Dec; 21(6):429-32. PMID: 25145768.
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    5. Shamasunder S. Sounds of Haiti. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Mar; 26(3):349-50. PMID: 21053088; PMCID: PMC3043174.
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