Sherin Mahrat, MD
Visiting Clinical Instructor
Department of Emergency Medicine
About
Dr. Sherin Mahrat is an emergency physician whose work includes ultrasound education, clinical research, and global emergency care. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Cook County Hospital, where she participated in resident ultrasound instruction, intern orientation teaching, and academic ultrasound presentations through the “Consider the Probe” series. Dr. Mahrat’s research experience includes ultrasound predictors of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease, ecological research in vector biology, and community ecology studies. She has presented work at national and international meetings, including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference.
Notable Honors
2020, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society, University of Illinois College of Medicine
2019, Gold Humanism Honor Society, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Education
Emergency Medicine Residency, Cook County Hospital, Chicago
MD, Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Graduation with Honors, Global Medicine Program
BS, Integrative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Study Abroad: CIEE Rabat – Language and Culture, Morocco
Selected Presentations
“Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion as a Potential Marker of Hospital Utilization in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease”
Austin Hematology, 2021
“The Burden of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases in a Ugandan Emergency Unit from 2010–2019”
Presented at CUGH Conference, 2021
“The Use of Bedside Ultrasound as a Predictive Tool for Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Patients”
Poster, UIC Medical Research Forum, 2018
“Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion: A Potential Marker of Hospital Utilization for Sickle Cell Patients”
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2019
“Guess Who’s Back”
Clinical Images Series, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Virtual Meeting, 2020
“Workup of Monoclonal Gammopathy and Evaluation for POEMS Syndrome”
Mentors Program Poster Symposium, 2018