Uzma Shah, MBBS
Uzma Shah, MBBS
Uzma Shah, MBBS
Uzma Shah, MBBS
Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Director, Center for Pediatric Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease
Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Clinical Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Director, Center for Pediatric Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease
Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
About Uzma Shah, MBBS
Dr. Shah trained in medicine at Dow Medical College with a residency in Pediatrics in Chicago 1994 and fellowship at Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 1996. Her work has included research in mucosal immunology, viral hepatitis and cystic fibrosis. She was the founding Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Pakistan. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health Pakistan, World Health Organization and UNICEF, she has contributed extensively to major regional development in Child Health and Global Health Programs against viral hepatitis. She was the Director of Research at Harvard Medical School Dubai, with a mandate to develop the Research Master Plan for the region. She served as an academic lead for the development of a 300 bed University Hospital and on the steering committee for a 200 bed Pediatric facility at Dubai. She led the development of Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Dubai Medical Suites. She is currently an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School; Clinical Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Director of the Center for Pediatric Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) and the Medical Director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program. Her research interests include viral hepatitis, inherited metabolic liver disease, liver transplantation and chronic pancreatitis.
Clinical Interests:
- Liver, biliary and pancreatic disease
- Liver transplant
- Pancreatic Transplant
- Cystic fibrosis
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Celiac disease
- Failure to thrive
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Languages:
- Urdu
Locations
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2696
617-726-8705
Fax: 617-643-2384
Medical Education
- MBBS, Dow Medical College
- Residency, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
- Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
- Pediatric Gastroenterology, American Board of Pediatrics
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- AllWays Health (NHP) - ACD
- AllWays Health (NHP) - PBO
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Maine Community Health Options (MCHO)
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- OSW - Connecticut
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- OSW - Rhode Island
- OSW - Vermont
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
- Well Sense Pediatrics
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Dr Shah and her group are involved in the study of viral hepatitis in children and its treatment. Metabolic and genetic liver disease, the study of acute liver failure, new diagnostic tools in the evaluation of chronic liver disease, fatty liver disease, chronic and hereditary pancreatitis and its relationship with food allergy.
Publications
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Murray K, Shah U, Chang MW et al. Chronic Hepatitis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2008; 47 (2): 225-33
Shah U, Kelly D, Chang M et al. Chronic Hepatitis B. J of Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2009 Apr; 48(4): 399-404
Vergani GM, Heller S, Jara P, Vergani D, Chang MW, Fujisawa T, Gonzalez R, Kelly D, Mohan N, Shah U and Murray K. Autoimmune Hepatitis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2009; 48: 1-7
Mohan N, Gozales R, Fujisawa T, Chang MW, Heller S, Paloma J, Kelly D, Vergani G, Shah U, Murray K. Chronic Hepatitis C. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2009, Dec 22
Shah U, Shenoy Bhangle A. A 19-year-old with recurrent pancreatitis. In: New England Journal of Medicine: Case Reports of the Mass General Hospital: Weekly clinicopathological exercises; 2011 Oct 20;365(16):1528-36
Larson AM, Hedgire SS, Deshpande V, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Harisinghani MG, Ferrone CR, Shah U, Thiele EA. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex. Clin Genet. 2011 Oct 28
Tanpowpong P, Sabharwal S, Shah U. Fever, jaundice and liver failure in an 18 year old male. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2012 Mar 7.
Sarah F. Pollack, Alexandra L. Geffrey, Elizabeth A. Thiele, Uzma Shah
Primary Intestinal Lymphangiectasia (PIL) Treated with Rapamycin in a Child with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC). American J Med Genetics. 2015 May 5
Roumiantsev S, Shah U, Westra SJ et al. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. A newborn girl with hypotension, coagulopathy, anemia and hyperbilirubinemia. N Engl J Med. 2015 Jun 25;372(26):2542-53