User:Ssharfaei

Sadaf Sharfaei, M.D.

Email: ssharfae@bidmc.harvard.edu

Current Position

• Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University
  
• Associate Editor-In-Chief, WikiDoc.org
  

Medical Education

2005 - 2007

• Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Internship, Iran.

2000 - 2007

• Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, M.D., Iran.

Licenses and Certificates

• ECFMG certificate
• Iran permanent medical license

Professional Background

• January 2017 – September 2017 (Medical Assistant) Cardiology Assessment Clinic, Toronto, Canada
• June 2016 – December 2016 (Clinical Extern) Associates in Primary Care, Chicago, USA
• August 2015 – present (Medical Educator) ICMPF, Toronto, Canada
• April 2014 – present (FOAMed Supporter) Twitter
• April 2014 - May 2015 (Visiting Physician) Cardiology Assessment Clinic, Toronto, Canada
• September 2013 – March 2014 (Principal Investigator) WHO
• July 2011 – September 2013 (General Physician) Rajai Hospital and Trauma Center, Iran - received "Best Physician of the Year (2012)" award
• Jan 2009 – July 2011 (Primary Care Physician) Aria polyclinic, Iran
• August 2007 – January 2009 (Primary Care Physician) Omidvar General Hospital, Iran

Publications

• The House of Eternal Culture. Stakeholder Iran UPR Submission. 2nd Cycle. UN Human Rights Council. 2014 (Review on cultural rights of Iranian ethnic groups)
• The House of Eternal Culture. Stakeholder Iran UPR Submission. 1st Cycle. UN Human Rights Council. 2010 (Review on the role of the observation of Iranian ethnic groups in national unity)
• Oral presentation on “Human Rights and Universal Periodic Review,” presented at the "12th Session of United Nations’ Human Rights Council" at Geneva, Switzerland on September 2009

Extracurricular Activity

Being a co-founder and executive director of an NGO, "The House of Eternal Culture", I lead a team on data collection and analysis about human rights in Iran and prepare reports for the United Nations. As a human rights advocate, I conducted multiple national and international workshops on health care in different developing countries. In my spare time, I love drawing modern art and calligraphy (English and Persian). I enjoy traveling to historical cities and landscape photography.

Chapters Authored & Co-authored

• Vitamin D deficiency
• Whipple's disease
• Short bowel syndrome
• Colon polyps
• Familial adenomatous polyposis
• Hemoptysis
• Diarrhea (landing page)
• Diarrhea differential diagnosis
• Malabsorption (landing page)
• Malabsorption differential diagnosis
• Steatorrhea
• Gastroparesis
• Interstitial lung disease (landing page)
• Interstitial lung disease differential diagnosis
• Autism
• Aspiration pneumonia

Chapters Reviewed

• Sjögren's syndrome
• Calcium apatite deposition disease 
• Fibrous dysplasia
• Osteoblastoma