Ashkon Shaahinfar, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine
Awards
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- Peter Sheaff Award for excellence in medical education for residents, attending physicians, and community medical staff, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, 2025
- UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators (AME) Member, University of California, San Francisco, 2023
- UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach and School of Medicine Office of Academic Affairs sponsorship for the AAMC Minority Faculty Leadership Development Seminar, University of California, San Francisco, 2023
- UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators (AME) Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
- Harvard Medical School Principal Clinical Experience (PCE) Teaching Award, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2014
- Global and Humanitarian Health Center of Expertise Travel Grant, Partners Healthcare, 2014
- The Howard King Award for Outstanding Compassionate Patient Care, Newton Wellesley Hospital Department of Pediatrics, 2013
- Global Health Research Innovation Challenge - Finalist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2009
- Richard J. Johns Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, 2006
- Collegiate Inventors Competition - Finalist, National Inventor's Hall of Fame, 2004
- BME-IDEA Inaugural Competition - 2nd Prize, VentureWell, 2004
- Buck Scholarship, Frank and Eva Buck Foundation, 2002
Education & Training
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- Emergency Ultrasound Highland Hospital - Alameda Health System 2018
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland 2017
- Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital 2014
- MD School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2011
- MPH Health and Human Rights; Health Promotion Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2010
Interests
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- regional analgesia
- gun violence
- health equity
- anti-racism
- pediatric emergency medicine
- point-of-care ultrasound
- health and human rights
- curriculum development
- violence prevention
Publications (21)
Top publication keywords:
PelvisTachycardia, VentricularPoint-of-Care SystemsCardiomyopathy, DilatedAnalgesiaNerve BlockFemoral FracturesRetinal HemorrhageUltrasonography, InterventionalCoronary Vessel AnomaliesAccidentsUltrasonographyPain ManagementWounds, GunshotPediatric Emergency Medicine
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Evaluation of an Online Module for Fascia Iliaca Block Education for Pediatric Femur Fractures in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
Pediatric emergency care 2026 Kangwa M, Shaahinfar A, Addo N, Lin-Martore M -
Ultrasound-Guided Regional Analgesia in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
Pediatric emergency care 2025 Shaahinfar A, Klekowski N, Kangwa M, Parker MG, Binder ZW -
Reliability of Physician Estimation of Pelvic Free Fluid Volume on the Pediatric Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma.
Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2025 Shaahinfar A, Wiebelhaus JR, Addo N, Cohen RA, Karakas-Rothey P, Kornblith AE -
Long-term Mortality in Pediatric Firearm Assault Survivors: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Comparative Cohort Study.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2018 Shaahinfar A, Yen IH, Alter HJ, Gildengorin G, Pan SJ, Betts JM, Fahimi J -
Assessing the effectiveness of an antiracism clinical skills curriculum for medical students: a single institution mixed methods study.
BMC medical education 2026 Jain R, Lewis L, Brooks K, Shaahinfar A, Stine S, Marbin J, Ehie O
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Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block for Pediatric Femur Fractures: A Secondary Analysis of Needle Tip Distance.
Pediatric emergency care 2025 Riera A, Lawson SL, Klekowski N, Moake MM, Snelling PJ, Toney AG, Ng C, Pade KH, The TS, Shaahinfar A, Chaudoin LT, Binder ZW -
Point-of-care ultrasound for intussusception.
Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2025 Firnberg M, Shaahinfar A, Lin-Martore M -
Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block for Pediatric Femur Fractures in the Emergency Department: A Prospective Multi-Center Study.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2025 Binder ZW, Ng C, Klekowski N, Lawson SL, Riera A, Toney AG, Pade KH, The TS, Shaahinfar A, Chaudoin LT, Lauer E, Snelling PJ, Moake MM -
Evaluation of Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma Completeness of Children in the Clinical Setting.
Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2024 Firnberg M, Addo N, Lin-Martore M, Shaahinfar A, Kornblith A -
Variability in firearm injury among major pediatric trauma centers across the USA.
Trauma surgery & acute care open 2023 Fraser Doh K, Chaudhary S, Ruest SM, Shaahinfar A, Chun T, Cooper N, Fein J, Feng A, Feske-Kirby K, Figueroa J, Gutman CK, Grupp-Phelan J, Kanaan G, Keathley N, Khan N, McGlamry K, Myers S, Nance M, … -
Toxic Exposures Among Young Children One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Review of Three San Francisco Bay Area Emergency Departments.
The Journal of emergency medicine 2022 Devlin G, Addo N, Shaahinfar A, Chen CC, Grupp-Phelan J, Kornblith AE -
Development of a Consensus-Based Definition of Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma in Children.
JAMA network open 2022 Kornblith AE, Addo N, Plasencia M, Shaahinfar A, Lin-Martore M, Sabbineni N, Gold D, Bellman L, Berant R, Bergmann KR, Brenkert TE, Chen A, Constantine E, Deanehan JK, Dessie A, Elkhunovich M, Fischer… -
The unmet demand for point-of-care ultrasound among general pediatricians: a cross-sectional survey.
BMC medical education 2022 McGinness A, Lin-Martore M, Addo N, Shaahinfar A -
Procedural Applications of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Emergency medicine clinics of North America 2021 Shaahinfar A, Ghazi-Askar ZM -
Young Child With Seizure.
Annals of emergency medicine 2021 Watkins K, Gelber J, Kaushik N, Shaahinfar A -
Anomalous Left Coronary Artery From the Pulmonary Artery Presenting as Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Regional Wall Motion Abnormality on Point-of-Care Ultrasound.
Pediatric emergency care 2019 Shaahinfar A, Ghazi-Askar ZM, Siroker H, Nagdev A -
A Multi-institutional Case Series With Review of Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Diagnose Malrotation and Midgut Volvulus in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
Pediatric emergency care 2019 Garcia AM, Asad I, Tessaro MO, Sivitz A, Osborn K, Shaahinfar A, Leung SK, Rowe E, Riera A -
New directions in point-of-care ultrasound at the crossroads of paediatric emergency and critical care.
Current opinion in pediatrics 2018 Bortcosh W, Shaahinfar A, Sojar S, Klig JE -
Update on abusive head trauma.
Current opinion in pediatrics 2015 Shaahinfar A, Whitelaw KD, Mansour KM -
A qualitative case study of child protection issues in the Indian construction industry: investigating the security, health, and interrelated rights of migrant families.
BMC public health 2013 Betancourt TS, Shaahinfar A, Kellner SE, Dhavan N, Williams TP -
Measuring bioimpedance in the human uterine cervix: towards early detection of preterm labor.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2004 Hoe YS, Gurewitsch ED, Shaahinfar A, Hu ES, Sampattavanich S, Ruffner M, Ching KH, Allen RH