Shahrzad Joharifard

After her fellowship with the IRC in the DRC, Shahrzad worked for a second year with the IRC in Sierra Leone. She then attended medical school at Duke, where she spent her third year in Rwanda conducting epidemiological research and working with Partners in Health to establish a surgical service. She also completed clinical rotations at a district hospital in the extreme north of Cameroon and at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa.

 

Shahrzad then returned home to Canada to begin general surgery residency at the University of British Columbia. She was very fortunate to spend several months of residency doing clinical rotations at Mbingo Baptist Hospital in northwest Cameroon and at Gondor University Hospital in Ethiopia. She finished residency in June 2017 and is now working as a general surgeon for Partners in Health in Harper, Liberia while concurrently pursuing a Masters in Public Health at Harvard. As of August 2018, Shahrzad will be starting pediatric surgery fellowship in Montreal.