About
Megha Shankar, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Her clinical and academic work focuses on promoting reproductive health equity. Through trauma-informed care and reproductive and racial justice, she is committed to addressing gender-based violence in diverse patient populations. She teaches formal courses on trauma-informed care and refugee health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She serves patients in an academic primary care setting as well as people seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. She is originally from the Chicagoland area, where she earned her undergraduate degree in Anthropology at the University of Chicago and medical degree at University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. After her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington, she completed a Health Services Research Fellowship at Stanford and the Palo Alto Veterans Affair.