Michael Yashar, MD, FACEP, CHSE-A, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the Associate Medical Director for Westwood Immediate Care, and has been designated as an Educator for Excellence within the School of Medicine.
Dr. Yashar has been nationally involved in the medical education and healthcare simulation community as the course co-director for the ACEP EM Academy, Procedure and Skills Course, as a faculty educator for the ACEP Simulation-based Immersive Medical (SIM) Training Course, and as an author for numerous SimWars cases held at national educational conferences. He has also served as a member of ACEP’s Education and Emergency Medicine Practice Committees, the Urgent Care Task Force, and is a Certifying Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM).
Prior to joining UCLA, he was appointed as faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and as the Department’s Director of Simulation, where he taught regularly to a variety of learners, both clinically and through a collaborative, multidisciplinary, and longitudinal monthly simulation curriculum. While there, he also served as the Education Committee Co-Chair for Women's Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills.
Dr. Yashar’s academic accolades include having received the Cedars-Sinai Medical Education Award, as well as having authored several publications in the field of medical simulation, including a chapter in the textbook, Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Emergency Medicine Edition. His clinical interests include emergency department and hospitalization utilization reduction through the use of value-based pathways that provide high-quality, timely, and efficient medical care in the outpatient setting.
