General Meeting: "Bird's Eye View of an ER Doctor During COVID-19 Pandemic" by Dr. Shahrzad Rafiee, Long Beach Memorial Hospital

Dr. Shahrzad Rafiee is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Attending at the Long Beach Memorial Hospital. She is also a senior partner at the California Emergency Medicine Group (CEMG) at Long Beach, where she serves as the director of Physician Assistant (PA) program. She received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1992 and medical degree from University of Illinois in 1997. She completed her emergency medicine residency at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000 and subsequently worked as an attending physician at Resurrection Medical Center prior to joining CEMG at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

Dr. Rafiee has been involved in education and training of residents, EMTs, and paramedic students from early on in her career. She was an examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), and a lecturer for UCLA’s Paramedic program since 2005. She has also been featured in several episodes of Emergency Medicine reality TV shows depicting her cases. On a personal note, she lives in Redondo Beach with her husband and two teenage sons and was an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and indoor rock-climbing until the recent pandemic put a halt to those activities. She enjoys reading and playing piano in her spare time.