Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases
UW Medicine Valley Medical Center
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Zahra Kassamali Escobar PharmD, BCIDP is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy and an Infectious Diseases Pharmacist and Co-Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at UW Medicine Valley Medical Center in the Seattle metropolitan area. She serves as an Associate Medical Director of the University of Washington Tele-Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (UW-TASP) which supports over 70 rural and critical access hospitals in the Western region of the United States.
Dr. Kassamali Escobar earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Development from University of California Berkeley, then completed her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco. She completed a clinical pharmacy residency at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Tucson, AZ and a research and clinical fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC). She has practiced clinically in HIV, Hepatitis C, inpatient and ambulatory general infectious diseases at UIC, UCLA, and now the University of Washington.
Her research interests include infectious diseases therapeutics, interprofessional education, telemedicine, and antimicrobial stewardship. She has presented and published 40 peer-reviewed research abstracts and papers in these areas.
