Myra Khushbakht , MD

Leadership Experience I am currently the resident recruitment co-lead for this year’s resident recruitment team since July 2025. In this role, I help coordinate the involvement of residents during the residency program interviews and socials to support applicants getting to know our program.  

Previously, I was the student director of my medical school’s student-run free clinic called The New Freedmen’s Clinic. The New Freedmen’s Clinic was my passion project in medical school from August 2019 to July 2024. Over medical school, I worked in various capacities from working on volunteer events to operations. I lead a team of over forty students on the NFC steering committee to ensure the day-to-day operations of the clinic, as well as communicate with students, providers, and patients to ensure continued access to care. During my directorship, I am really proud of changing the policies and procedures as well as the operations resulting in the clinic being awarded a 2023 Gold Star rating from the Quality Standards Program of the National Association of Free Clinics. I also transitioned the clinic from a paper based record system to an electronic medical record system. 

Lastly, I was also the chair of the D.C. EM medical student council in my last year of medical school. I oversaw five teams of 13 council members engaging EM-bound medical students interested in health policy and community engagement from the three medical schools in DC. The year prior to this, I was the health policy coordinator. I served on the committee from February 2022 to January 2024.

What Dr. Khushbakht will bring to the CORD Board of Directors:

I have enjoyed working in various capacities from institution-wide policy writing for graduate medical education to creating mentoring opportunities within residency.

I am part of the OHSU’s graduate medical education policy sub-committee as a resident member where I assess, deliberate, and provide policy recommendations related to institutional-wide ACGME residency requirements at OHSU. In the department of emergency medicine, I am a member of the transitions of care working committee where I work with faculty to help improve sign out culture and support for residents. I also taught a series of toxicology lectures in January 2025 to internal medicine residents and faculty in the critical care unit. I also started a couple mentoring programs for my residency program. Last year I started the away rotator monthly lunch to have sub-is meet residents to help get to know and answer questions about the program from the resident perspective. I also started the resident mentoring program this year where each first year resident is paired with a second year resident. Lastly, I coordinated the sub-i mentoring program this year where I helped connect any medical student rotator interested in pursuing emergency medicine to a resident mentor.