Megha Shankar

Title(s)Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine
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    University of ChicagoABAnthropology, Biology
    University of Illinois at Chicago College of MedicineMDMedicine
    University of WashingtonResidencyInternal Medicine
    Stanford University/Palo Alto VAFellowshipHealth Services Research
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    Alpha Omega Alpha
    Gold Humanism Honor Society
    SGIM Advocacy and Community Service Award

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    Dr. Megha Shankar is an internal medicine primary care physician, medical educator, and health services researcher who seeks to promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine. Clinically, she practices primary care at the UCSD 4th and Lewis clinic in Hillcrest, as well as provides health screenings through the UCSD Asylum Seekers Medical Screening and Stabilization Program. She also leads the women's health quality efforts as the Co-Director of the Population Health Services Organization Wellness Committee. Her educational efforts include her role as Core Faculty within the Internal Medicine Residency Program, leading the Social Justice and Advocacy Curriculum. Within the School of Medicine, she facilitates Primary Care Clerkship seminar and directs the School of Medicine elective MED 236: Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Health. Through research, she promotes trauma-informed care, reproductive justice, and immigrant/refugee health. Her work is focused on trauma and resilience inquiry in family planning, refugee, immigrant, and migrant health curriculum development and evaluation, promoting HPV vaccination in East African families, intimate partner violence screening, addressing female genital cutting, teaching reproductive justice, Veteran postpartum health equity, anti-racism communication, and social justice curricula.

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    Obstetric Refugee/Asylee Care Navigation Pre-Clinical Medical Elective
    Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Health Elective
    Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2025
    Role: Principle Investigator
    Reproductive Justice in Telemedicine
    Sanford Empathy and Technology Grant Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2025
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Trauma and Resilience Inquiry in Family Planning
    University of California ACEs Aware Network (UCAAN) Jul 1, 2023 - Feb 28, 2025
    Role: Site Principle Investigator
    Outpatient IPV Screening and Response
    Division of General Internal Medicine Mini-Grant Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
    Role: Principle Investigator
    Evaluation of a Community Based Social Justice Residency Curriculum
    Building Trust & Equity in IM Training Grant (AAIM, ABIM, ACP, Macy Foundation) Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2024
    Role: Principle Investigator
    Development and Implementation of a Community Based Social Justice Residency Curriculum
    Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion Jun 15, 2022 - Dec 31, 2023
    Role: Principle Investigator
    Presence 5 for Trauma-Informed Care
    Society of Bedside Medicine Jan 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2024
    Role: Principle Investigator

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    1. Special Report: Entrustable Professional Activities in Sex- and Gender-Based Women's Health. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Jun 10. McClintock AH, Rusiecki J, Casas RS, Henrich JB, Schwarz EB, Kwolek DG, And the Sex and Gender Based Women’s Health Education EPA workgroup. PMID: 38858342.
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    2. Cultural challenges for adapting behavioral intervention frameworks: A critical examination from a cultural psychology perspective. Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Jun; 110:102425. Fischer R, Bailey Y, Shankar M, Safaeinili N, Karl JA, Daly A, Johnson FN, Winter T, Arahanga-Doyle H, Fox R, Abubakar A, Zulman DM. PMID: 38614022.
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    3. Building Trust and Partnership with Black Pediatric Patients and their Caregivers. Acad Pediatr. 2024 Mar; 24(2):216-227. Garcia RS, Hollis T, Baratta J, King Z, Faulks M, Ricketts M, Brown-Johnson C, Shankar M, Guerin A, Wong HN, Zulman DM, Floyd BD. PMID: 37659602.
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    4. Credentialing Internal Medicine Physicians to Expand Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Access. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2023. Jennifer L Michener, David A Hirsh, Pelin Batur, Rachel S Casas, Vidya Gopinath, Lydia E Pace, Christine Prifti, Jennifer Rusiecki, Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, Megha Shankar, Mindy Sobota, Deborah Gomez Kwolek. View Publication.
    5. Veteran Postpartum Health: VA Care Team Perspectives on Care Coordination, Health Equity, and Trauma-Informed Care. Mil Med. 2023 Jul 22; 188(7-8):e1563-e1568. Gopisetty DD, Shaw JG, Gray C, Frayne S, Phibbs C, Shankar M. PMID: 36151892.
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    6. Teaching reproductive justice. Clin Teach. 2023 08; 20(4):e13593. Bachorik AE, Shankar M, Williams M, Beaman J, McClintock AH. PMID: 37265203.
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    7. Moving beyond inquiry: a secondary qualitative analysis on promoting racial justice in clinical care. BMC Med Educ. 2023 Mar 23; 23(1):180. Kyerematen B, Garcia R, Cox J, Zulman DM, Shankar M. PMID: 36959597; PMCID: PMC10035470.
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    8. State of Reproductive Health Volume II: VA Reproductive Health Diagnoses and Organization of Care. Office of Women’s Health, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs. 2023. Katon JG, Tartaglione EV, Eleazer JR, Frayne SM, Haeger KO, Luo S, Schule AKR, Offer C, Phibbs CS, Rose D, Saechao F, Shankar M, Shaw J, Vinekar KS, Yano EM, Christy AY, Johnson AM.
    9. Teaching Anti-Racism in the Clinical Environment: The Five-Minute Moment for Racial Justice in Healthcare. Am J Med. 2023 04; 136(4):345-349. Wang SXY, Chi K, Shankar M, Israni ST, Verghese A, Zulman DM. PMID: 36566895.
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    10. Say My Name: Understanding the Power of Names, Correct Pronunciation, and Personal Narratives. MedEdPORTAL . 2022; 18(11284). Salma Dali, MD, Anaid Atasuntseva, PhD, Megha Shankar, MD, Eve Ayeroff, MD, Malorie Holmes, MD, Christina Johnson, MD, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, MD, MS, Beth Beadle, MD, Joon Chang, MD, Kathleen Boyd, MD, Tamara Dunn, MD. View Publication.
    11. An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Associated With Spontaneous Preterm Birth Among Pregnant Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Women's Health Issues. 2022. Panelli DM, Chan CS, Shaw JG, Shankar M, Kimerling R, Frayne SM, Herrero TC, Lyell DJ, Phibbs CS. View Publication.
    12. The Presence 5 for Racial Justice Framework for anti-racist communication with Black patients. Health Serv Res. 2022 12; 57 Suppl 2:263-278. Brown-Johnson C, Cox J, Shankar M, Baratta J, De Leon G, Garcia R, Hollis T, Verano M, Henderson K, Upchurch M, Safaeinili N, Shaw JG, Fortuna RJ, Beverly C, Walsh M, Somerville CS, Haverfield M, Israni ST, Verghese A, Zulman DM. PMID: 35765147; PMCID: PMC9660409.
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    13. The Impact of a Comic Book Intervention on East African-American Adolescents' HPV Vaccine-Related Knowledge, Beliefs and Intentions. J Immigr Minor Health. 2022 Dec; 24(6):1489-1500. Shin MB, Ko LK, Ibrahim A, Mohamed FB, Lin J, Celentano I, Shankar M, Amsalu F, Ali AA, Richardson BA, Taylor VM, Winer RL. PMID: 35357620; PMCID: PMC10129048.
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    14. Presence 5 for Racial Justice Workshop: Fostering Dialogue Across Medical Education to Disrupt Anti-Black Racism in Clinical Encounters . MedEdPORTAL. 2022; 18(11227). Megha Shankar, MD, Kelsey Henderson, Raquel Garcia, Gabrielle Li, KeAndrea Titer, MD, Rhonda Graves Acholonu, MD, Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH, Cati Brown-Johnson, PhD, Joy Cox, PhD, Jonathan G. Shaw, MD, MS, Marie Christine Haverfield, PhD, Kenji Taylor, MD, MSc, Sonoo Thadaney Israni, MBA, Donna Zulman, MD, MS. View Publication.
    15. Nonmedical Transdisciplinary Perspectives of Black and Racially and Ethnically Diverse Individuals About Antiracism Practices: A Qualitative Study. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 02 01; 5(2):e2147835. Shankar M, Cox J, Baratta J, De Leon G, Shaw JG, Israni ST, Zulman DM, Brown-Johnson CG. PMID: 35138395; PMCID: PMC8829657.
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    16. Postpartum Transition of Care: Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Veterans' Re-Engagement in VA Primary Care after Pregnancy. Womens Health Issues. 2021 Nov-Dec; 31(6):603-609. Shankar M, Chan CS, Frayne SM, Panelli DM, Phibbs CS, Shaw JG. PMID: 34229932.
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    17. Casualties of the World War II metaphor: women's reproductive health fighting for narrative inclusion in COVID-19. Med Humanit. 2022 Sep; 48(3):261-264. Bailey Y, Shankar M, Phillips P. PMID: 34155088.
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    18. The impact of an educational forum intervention on East African mothers' HPV vaccine-related knowledge, attitudes, and intentions to vaccinate their adolescent children. Vaccine. 2021 06 23; 39(28):3767-3776. Chu H, Ko LK, Ibrahim A, Bille Mohamed F, Lin J, Shankar M, Amsalu F, Ali AA, Richardson BA, Taylor VM, Winer RL. PMID: 34053792; PMCID: PMC9984200.
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    19. Development and evaluation of an online continuing education course to increase healthcare provider self-efficacy to make strong HPV vaccine recommendations to East African immigrant families. Tumour Virus Res. 2021 06; 11:200214. McFadden SM, Ko LK, Shankar M, Ibrahim A, Berliner D, Lin J, Mohamed FB, Amsalu F, Ali AA, Jang SH, Winer RL. PMID: 33647533; PMCID: PMC7944093.
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    20. True Choice in Reproductive Care: Using Cultural Humility and Explanatory Models to Support Reproductive Justice in Primary Care. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 05; 36(5):1395-1399. Shankar M, Williams M, McClintock AH. PMID: 32974726; PMCID: PMC7514230.
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    21. "Racial Bias…I'm Not Sure if It Has Affected My Practice": a Qualitative Exploration of Racial Bias in Team-Based Primary Care. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 11; 35(11):3395-3397. Brown-Johnson C, Shankar M, Taylor NK, Safaeinili N, Shaw JG, Winget M, Mahoney M. PMID: 32935312; PMCID: PMC7491594.
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    22. Trying Times and Trying Out Solutions: Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Support for Women Veterans During COVID-19. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 09; 35(9):2728-2731. Rossi FS, Shankar M, Buckholdt K, Bailey Y, Israni ST, Iverson KM. PMID: 32607932; PMCID: PMC7325833.
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    23. Approaches for Residents to Address Problematic Patient Behavior: Before, During, and After the Clinical Encounter. J Grad Med Educ. 2019 08; 11(4):371-374. Shankar M, Albert T, Yee N, Overland M. PMID: 31440327; PMCID: PMC6699523.
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