Nassim Assefi MD

Summary

• Dr. Assefi is a board-certified internist, human rights doctor and women’s health specialist, former women’s health professor at University of Washington School of Medicine and Nagasaki University School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, advisor and practitioner at Maven (largest women’s health telemedicine company in the world), health-tech consultant at Zocdoc. Often doing women’s health missions for marginalized communities (from survivors of torture to Indian Health Services to Afghanistan and Morocco) and a lifelong activist for sexual health and reproductive rights and justice. Dr. Assefi has a "portfolio career" including human rights and public health technical assistance, peace activism (Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan), strategic leadership of non-profits, speaker curation and coaching (for TED/TEDMED and TED-like events), events hosting and production, professional writing (fiction--author of Aria and forthcoming Say I Am You-- and scientific/medical). She's a polyglot, global nomad, US Citizen, who has lived on 5 major continents.