Shelly Frasier is a licensed clinical social worker currently working in the city of Los Angeles in a dialysis clinic. With a 23 year professional history in the field of clinical social work, she has worked in her current clinic for 14 years in a position of advocating for people living with chronic kidney disease. She received her bachelor’s degree from University of California, Riverside and a Master’s Degree in Social work at Arizona State University.

Prior to entering the field of dialysis, Shelly worked in a variety of settings, including foster care, inpatient behavioral health, and internal medicine. She has also worked as a member of the trauma team in the very busy emergency room at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, California. Prior to that, she worked in cooperation with Maricopa County Sheriff Department as a lead mobile crisis therapist for a Suicide Prevention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Shelly serves on the executive committee for the Los Angeles Chapter of National Kidney Foundation’s Council for Nephrology Social Workers and has partnered with Renal Network 18’s patient services and the Learning Action Network to identify ways to improve patient care. Her motto is, “All of us have been, or will someday become patients.” She is a preceptor for new dialysis social workers and the lead social worker for her region.