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 – September 2017 (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

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

• Whipple's disease
• Tropheryma whipplei
• Short bowel syndrome
• Colon polyps
• Familial adenomatous polyposis
• Hemoptysis
• Diarrhea (landing page)
• Malabsorption (landing page)
• Steatorrhea
• Gastroparesis
• Vitamin D deficiency
• Interstitial lung disease (landing page)
• Autism
• Aspiration pneumonia
• Inflammatory myopathy (landing page)
• Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
• Acid-base homeostasis (landing page)
• Pyuria (landing page)
• Pyelonephritis
• Cystitis
• Urethritis
• Prostatitis
• T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia

Differential Diagnosis Project

• Diarrhea differential diagnosis
• Malabsorption differential diagnosis
• Interstitial lung disease differential diagnosis
• Inflammatory myopathy differential diagnosis
• Metabolic acidosis differential diagnosis
• Metabolic alkalosis differential diagnosis
• Urinary incontinence differential diagnosis
• Pyuria differential diagnosis
• Polycythemia differential diagnosis
• Thrombocytosis differential diagnosis
• Thrombocytopenia differential diagnosis
• Pancytopenia differential diagnosis
• Leukocytosis differential diagnosis
• Splenomegaly differential diagnosis
• Atopic Dermatitis differential diagnosis
• Leukemia differential diagnosis

Calculator project

• Clinical prediction rule
• Caprini score calculator
• IMPROVE VTE risk score
• IMPROVEDD VTE risk score
• Padua prediction score
• Wells score calculator for DVT
• Modified Wells score calculator for DVT
• Pulmonary embolism Wells score calculator
• Pulmonary embolism modified Wells score calculator
• AMUSE score calculator
• HAMILTON score calculator
• Geneva score calculator
• Revised Geneva score calculator
• Simplified Geneva Score calculator
• TIMI Risk Score for Unstable Angina or NSTEMI
• TIMI Risk Score for STEMI
• Tygerberg score
• CHA2DS2-VASc Score
• CHADS2 score
• HAS-BLED score
• Apgar score
• Glasgow coma scale
• Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale
• DIPSS Plus Score
• Ranson Risk Score Calculator
• DAPT score

Chapters Reviewed

• Jaundice differential diagnosis
• Sjögren's syndrome
• Calcium apatite deposition disease 
• Fibrous dysplasia
• Osteoblastoma
• Takayasu's arteritis
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Pyelonephritis
• Cystitis
• Asymptomatic bacteriuria
• Urethritis
• Prostatitis
• Urinary tract infection
• Muscle weakness differential diagnosis
• Oliguria differential diagnosis
• Nephrotic syndrome
• SIADH
• Kidney stone differential diagnosis
• Monoarthritis differential diagnosis
• Polyarthritis differential diagnosis
• Polycythemia vera differential diagnosis
• Anemia differential diagnosis
• Kaposi's sarcoma differential diagnosis
• Hemolytic anemia differential diagnosis
• Agranulocytosis
• Transfusion reaction
• Bleeding diathesis
• Primary effusion lymphoma
• Stroke differential diagnosis
• Legionellosis differential diagnosis
• Psittacosis differential diagnosis
• Adult T-cell leukemia
• Liver mass
• Multiple myeloma
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
• Combined immunodeficiency
• Lung mass differential diagnosis
• Myeloproliferative neoplasm differential diagnosis
• Myelodysplastic syndrome differential diagnosis
• Thyroid nodule differential diagnosis
• Chronic neutrophilic leukemia
• Endometrial cancer differential diagnosis
• Neck masses differential diagnosis