Physician
Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP is board-certified in family medicine and fellowship trained in non-cosmetic dermatology. Currently, she works to provide dermatological access to the immigrant and farmworker communities in rural Washington. Prior to that, she practiced full-scope primary care with obstetrics and hospital medicine in rural Washington State during the pandemic years and served as the COVID-19 Task Force Physician Lead.
Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Residency: Mayo Clinic Health Systems - La Crosse Family Medicine
Fellowship: Dermatology Underserved Fellowship in Family Medicine
Awards: Gold Humanism Honor Society Award, John F. Radebaugh Community Service Award, Residency Research Award
Scholar
History
Zed was the 2023-2024 fellow of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society. During her fellowship, she studied the history of modern medicine at the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School, the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University, Smith College Special Collections, and John Hay Library at Brown University. This medical history scholarship laid the foundation for her book Consented: Medical Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It.
Medicine
Zed is the co-author of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) FP Essentials monograph Common Skin Conditions in Children and Adolescents. She is also a lecturer for the AAFP national conference and the AAFP Skin Problems and Diseases Course on various dermatological topics.
Zed actively engages in research and teaching. She has mentored numerous medical students in clinical medicine and research. Her research has been published in Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, the Journal of Pediatrics, the Journal of Family Practice, the American Academy of Pediatrics Newsletter, Neonatology Today, the Journal of Investigative Medicine, the Journal of Medical Case Reports, the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, etc.
Zed is a first-generation immigrant from China. Traveling and backpacking fuel her soul. She enjoys nature photography, and is particularly drawn to sunrises and sunsets. All the nature photos on this website were taken by Zed. Of course, Moshi Moshi, her labradoodle puppy, goes wherever Zed goes.
