Amy Shekarchi, MD, MPH

Amy Shekarchi MD, MPH, is a pediatrician at several Los Angeles County Health Services clinics, and is the Interim Director of Pediatrics for the High Desert Health Group. She attended medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, pediatric residency at UCLA, and completed a Maternal-Child Health fellowship and MPH program while working for Los Angeles County. She has dedicated her non-clinical work to clinical improvements and projects that address social and behavioral health needs for children and families in Los Angeles. Through this work, she became a clinical leader in the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), Co-founder and co-director of the ACEs-LA group tasked with instituting ACE screening and network building across LA County Health Services clinics and helped lead the formation of UCAAN.