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Shiva Zargham is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UNC- Chapel Hill. She attended both medical school and residency at East Carolina University. She stayed an additional two years on faculty at ECU as a pediatric chief resident and then served as associate program director of the pediatric residency.  She then went on to University of Louisville for her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship and master’s in clinical Investigation. She has been at UNC-CH for six years working in the pediatric emergency department and pediatric urgent care and is one of the associate program directors for the pediatric residency and leaders of the pediatric emergency department clinical event debriefing program. Dr. Zargham was an IHQI improvement scholar in 2025 and her team was the recipient of a 2025 Carolina Quality and Safety Award for their work. Her focus is on debriefing after clinical events, simulation and education.