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Dr. Shazia Jamil is a member of the Scripps Clinic Division of Chest and Critical Care Medicine, in La Jolla, California, and assistant professor of medicine at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She specializes in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and sleep medicine. She is actively involved in teaching, clinical practice and research in the arena of lung, sleep and critical care diseases. She has co-authored several journal articles and has contributed many book chapters in medical textbooks.

Dr. Jamil obtained her medical degree from the prestigious Aga Khan Medical University in Pakistan, followed by internship and residency training in internal medicine at University of Southern California. She was trained as a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Diego where she did her clinical fellowship training in pulmonary/critical care medicine, post-doctoral fellowship in molecular/cell biology and sleep medicine training. During her fellowship, she was selected to attend Harvard School of Public Health to further her education and training in areas of statistics, epidemiology and clinical trials.

She has received numerous awards and honors for Outstanding Teaching, Clinical Practice and Research, including recognition as "America's Top Physicians," by Consumers' Research Council of America. She has also served on the board of directors of the American Lung Association of San Diego and Imperial County.