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Afshan Baraghoush

Afshan Baraghoush

•Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
•HS Associate Clinical Professor

Biography

Afshan Baraghoush, M.D., is Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency and HS Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As Program Director since July 2020, Baraghoush cleared the residency program from four citations and has maintained the program in good standing. She serves as Executive Owner for Root Cause Analysis at UC Irvine Health and as Medical Director of the ALERT Team, a critical care nursing-driven team providing 24/7 support for rapid response and sepsis patients.

Baraghoush has developed multiple curricula for the Internal Medicine Residency, including the Patient Safety Curriculum, Quality Improvement Curriculum, and Inclusive Insights DEI Curriculum. She created the Internal Medicine Core Conference Webcast Curriculum covering all core topics over a three-year longitudinal program and established the Crack the Case interactive conference series. As Director of Simulation since 2019, she developed high-fidelity mannequin simulation curricula for critical care, rapid response, sepsis, and code blue scenarios. She served as Principal Investigator for the UC Sepsis Simulation Consortium, a UCOP-funded initiative to improve physician-nursing communication and sepsis management across all UC campuses.

Baraghoush is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Society of Hospital Medicine. She served as President of the Society of General Internal Medicine California-Hawaii Region from 2020 to 2022 and has been a member of the American College of Physicians Governor's Council for Southern California Region II since 2017. She completed the Stanford Clinician Health and Wellbeing Fellowship in 2021 and received the ACP Southern California Laureate Award in 2020. Baraghoush is fluent in Farsi, Spanish, and French.

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Education

  • M.D. in Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2009
  • B.S. in Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
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Distinctions

  • American College of Physicians Fellow, 2021
  • Society of Hospital Medicine Fellow, 2025
  • Clinical Vignettes Poster Competition Winner, ACP National Meeting, 2021
  • ACP Southern California Laureate Award, 2020
  • 3rd place Clinical Vignettes Poster Competition, ACP Southern California Meeting, 2012, 2023
  • 1st place Clinical Vignettes Poster Competition, ACP Southern California Meeting, 2017, 2020
  • 3rd place Clinical Vignettes Poster Competition, SGIM CA-HI Regional Meeting, 2019
  • ACP Southern California Volunteerism Award, 2018
  • GME Service in Medical Education, UC Irvine School of Medicine, 2021
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Areas of Expertise

  • Medical Education Leadership
  • Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training
  • High-Fidelity Simulation Instruction
  • Hospital Medicine Quality Metrics
  • Diversity and Inclusion Curriculum
  • Root Cause Analysis Methodology
  • Patient Safety Process Improvement

Recent Publications

  • Chien R, Dominguez M, Baraghoush A, “Supplement or Setback? Artri Ajo King and Cushing's Syndrome”, 2024. Presented at American College of Physicians Regional Conference, Oct 2024.
  • Devineni D, Grant C, Baraghoush A, “A Rare Case of Pancytopenia by Mycobacterium Avium Complex with Bone Marrow Involvement”, 2023. Presented at American College of Physicians Regional Conference, Oct 2023.
  • Patel A, Range A, Baraghoush A, “Eye See your Kidneys: A Case of ANCA Vasculitis”, 2022. Presented at Society of General Internal Medicine California-Hawaii Regional Conference, Jan 2022.
  • Nguyen L, Souccar S, Zuckerman JE, Chen JLT, Katrivesis J, Abi-Jaoudeh N, Lee L, Reddy U, Baraghoush A, Morrison DE, Li X, Wang B, Lau WL, “Kidney Biopsy: Challenges with Peri-Procedural Management”, Journal of Nephropathology, vol. 10, 2021.
  • Jasperse N, Hernandez-Dominguez O, Deyell JS, Prasad JP, Yuan C, Tomy M, Baraghoush A, Kuza C, Grigorian A, Nahmias J, “A Pre/Post Comparison After Introduction of a Female External Urinary Collection Device”, 2021. Presented at Academic Surgical Congress Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, Feb 2021.
  • Cohen G, Delgado V, Lee W, Rezk S, Peralta M, Baraghoush A, “Rash – The Initial Presentation of Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma – A Real Head Scratcher”, 2021. Presented at American College of Physician National Conference, Virtual Conference, April 2021.
  • Patel A, Range A, Baraghoush A, “Eye See your Kidneys: A Case of ANCA Vasculitis”, 2021. Presented at American College of Physicians Regional Conference, Oct 2021.
  • Minteer W, Baraghoush A, Tran MH, “A Case of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome with Factor V Leiden and Rapid Response to Plasmapheresis Therapy”, Journal of Transfusion and Apheresis Science, 2018.
  • Shah AB, Udeoji DU, Baraghoush A, Bharadwaj P, Yennurajalingam S, Schwarz ER, “An evaluation of the prevalence and severity of pain and other symptoms in acute decompensated heart failure”, Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 87-90, 2013.
  • Shah AB, Morrissey RP, Baraghoush A, Bharadwaj P, Phan A, Hamilton M, Kobashigawa J, Schwarz ER, “Failing the failing heart: A review of palliative care in heart failure”, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 41-48, 2013.
  • Schwartz ER, Baraghoush A, Shah AB, Morrissey RP, Shinde A, Phan A, Bharadwaj P, “Pilot study of palliative care consultation in patients with advanced heart failure referred for cardiac transplantation”, Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 12-15, 2012.
  • Schwartz ER, Baraghoush A, Shah AB, Morrissey RP, Shinde A, Phan A, Bharadwaj P, “Erectile dysfunction as a complication of heart failure”, Current Heart Failure Reports, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 194-201, 2010.
  • Feuerstadt P, Das R, Baraghoush A, Nikolla Z, Behin D, Brandt LJ, “Prednisone increases mortality of hospitalized patients with clostridium difficile-associated disease”, Gastroenterology, vol. 136, no. 5, pp. A-629, 2009.
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Contact Information

Email: abaragho@uci.edu

Phone: (714) 456-5156

Address: City Tower Suite 500, Irvine, CA 92868

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Last updated on 2/17/2026.