Zed Zha, MD, is a board certified family physician. She graduated from the
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where she received Gold Humanism
Honor Society Award and the John F. Radebaugh Community Service Award. She
completed her residency training at the Mayo Clinic - La Crosse Family
Medicine Residency, where she was the recipient of the Residency Research
Award. Dr. Zha currently practices full-scope primary care with obstetrics
and hospital medicine in rural Washington state. She served as her
organization’s COVID-19 Task Force Physician Lead during the first year of
the pandemic. Dr.Zha is an upcoming fellow in the Underserved Dermatology
Fellowship in Family Medicine.
Dr.Zha's guest Op-Ed on workplace violence against healthcare workers on
MedPage Today, and her recent commentary on safety issues in rural medicine
on the Daily Yonder inspired much internet debate on this topic.
Dr.Zha's academic research has been published in the American Academy of
Pediatrics Newsletter, Neonatology Today, and the Journal of Primary Care
and Community Health, among others. Her research on N95 mask reuse and
decontamination was published in the Journal of Investigative Medicine. Most
recently, her case report on treating Long COVID Syndrome was published by
the Journal of Medical Case Reports. She presented at the American
Association of Family Physicians Conference 2021 about her agency’s efforts
to battle a COVID-19 nursing home outbreak.