Dr. Zafia Anklesaria

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Get to know Pulmonologist and Critical Care Specialist Dr. Zafia Anklesaria, who serves the population of Los Angeles, California. Dr. Anklesaria completed her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. Wanting to further her education she then completed her Medical Degree from the Thomas Jefferson University in 2012, giving her over 7 years of experience in her field. After obtaining her Medical Degree she completed her Internal Medicine and Pulmonary residency with the University of California. Dr. Anklesaria is certified in Pulmonary Care by the American Board of Internal Medicine. To stay up to date in her field she remains a professional member of the APS Foundation of America Inc., and the American College-Chest Physicians. She currently practices with VEP Healthcare, Inc where she focuses primarily on critical care and secondary on pulmonary care. When not working, she enjoys riding horses. Critical care medicine encompasses the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of clinical problems representing the extreme of human disease. Critically ill patients require intensive care by a coordinated team. The critical care specialist (sometimes referred to as an “intensivist”) may be the primary provider of care or a consultant. The intensivist needs to be competent not only in a broad range of conditions common among critically ill patients but also with the technological procedures and devices used in intensive care settings. The care of critically ill patients also raises many complicated ethical and social issues, and the intensivist must be competent in areas such as end-of-life decisions, advance directives, estimating prognosis, and counseling of patients and their families.

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