Dr. Amir A. Shamshirsaz is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist with specialties in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Surgical Critical Care and certification in Critical Care Echo Examination. He currently serves as the Co-director of Maternal Critical Care and Co-Director of the Placenta Accreta Spectrum Care Team Program at Texas Children’s Hospital/Pavilion for Women.

He completed his medical school at the National University in Tehran, Iran, and then went on to join the obstetrics and gynecology residency program at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Afterward, he attended Baylor College of Medicine, where he finished fellowships in both maternal fetal medicine and surgical critical care. He now serves as an assistant professor specializing in maternal fetal medicine and critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

His main interests are Critical Care, Point of Care ultrasound, Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy, ECMO in Pregnancy and Placenta Accreta Spectrum. He served on the Expert Panel for Obstetric Life Support (OBLS): Development of a Simulation-based Maternal Cardiac Arrest Program for Credentialing Specialists and First Responders. He also serves as steering and publication committee on National COVID-19 ECMO in Pregnancy Registry.