Tehmina Shakir
Biography
Dr. Shakir is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor at Wayne State University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences. Dr. Shakir has been collaborating with Dr. Hilary Marusak and her team members at the THINK Lab in different projects. Her focus in teaching has been to utilize current research and publications to facilitate developing curricula, teaching, and supervising trainees in our program (medical students, psychiatry residents, child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners completing their preceptorship in our program). She also supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows for their quality improvement projects (QIP) which is a requirement in our program before they graduate. All the QIP were submitted for Detroit Medical Center QuESST Research Day and Annual Michigan Summit Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Wellness. She has been invited as a speaker in departmental grand rounds and in regional/national conferences) to talk on topics related to trauma and adversities. She has been awarded diplomate status with The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.