Shirin graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2004. She moved to Scotland for her house officer jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh; before taking off to the other side of the world, where she spent a year in Hamilton, New Zealand, on a medical rotation. 

She returned to the UK and her first Emergency Medicine post in Portsmouth, after which started her training in Emergency Medicine in the South East Scotland deanery. She completed her training in 2013, and was appointed to a consultant post in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh shortly after.

She has an interest in Simulation Medicine for the development of clinical knowledge and skills, and non-technical skills within the Emergency Department.

She splits her spare time between sport: her snowboard in the winter and her climbing shoes in the summer, and enjoying eating out with friends!