Bio
Shiva Sarraf-Yazdi is Vice Dean of Education at Duke-NUS Medical School. She joined the School in 2007 as a faculty member, while holding a joint appointment with the Department of Surgical Oncology at the National Cancer Centre Singapore. Before her current role, she served as Assistant Dean for Admissions and later Associate Dean for Educational Strategies. Her contributions at Duke-NUS include leading curricular reforms and innovations such as developing the innovative Duke-NUS hybrid longitudinal integrated clerkship, orchestrating the longitudinal C.A.R.E. (Connect, Assimilate, Reflect, Explore) Programme and enhancing the preclinical and clinical curricula.
Shiva completed her secondary education in Iran, and earned an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering with Distinction (magna cum laude), followed by an MD from Duke University, where she also completed her general surgery residency (Outstanding Senior Resident and Chief Resident awards in General Surgery), a 2-year surgery research fellowship and a fellowship in surgical critical care. She later obtained a Master of Education in Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University and an Executive MBA from NUS. She spent the 2012-13 academic year at Malaysia’s Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine (in collaboration with Johns Hopkins) as the founding Director of Clinical Clerkships.
Education
Master of Business Administration
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Master of Health Professions Education
Johns Hopkins University, United States
Doctor of Medicine
Duke Univ, United States
Bachelor of Science (Engg) with Distinction
Duke Univ, United States