Jahan Fahimi, MD, MPH

Additional titles:

• Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Education:
BA: University of California, San Diego, BS, Biochemistry
MD: Harvard School of Public Health, MPH, Quantitive Methods; NYU School of Medicine, MD, 2006; University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology
Training: Highland Hospital, Emergency Medicine Residency, Social EM Research Fellowship
Board Certifications: Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests: 
EMS, ED utilization, social epidemiology, skin and soft tissue diseases

University and National Positions:
Member, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Member, American College of Emergency Physicians

Honors/Awards:
AOA - NYU School of Medicine
ACMC - Highland Chief Resident
ACMC - Highland Graduating Resident of the Year
UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine Quarterly Bedside Teaching Award

Dr. Jahan Fahimi is an emergency medicine doctor with a special interest in understanding how to provide the highest-quality care for patients at the right time and place. He serves as medical director of UCSF's adult emergency department and as UCSF Health's medical director for value improvement, a role in which he works with other leaders and teams across the organization to maximize care quality while eliminating inefficiencies and waste.

Fahimi's research and advocacy interests center on firearm violence in the United States. He seeks to better understand its epidemiology, to prevent injury through a public health approach, and to educate other doctors on addressing the firearm injury epidemic at the bedside. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

Fahimi earned his master of public health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and his medical degree at New York University. He completed a residency in emergency medicine and a research fellowship at Highland Hospital, part of Alameda Health System.