Uzma Shah, MBBS
Uzma Shah, MBBS
About Uzma Shah, MD, 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:
- Celiac disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Failure to thrive
- Liver transplant
- Liver, biliary and pancreatic disease
- Pancreatic Transplant
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Languages:
- Urdu
Locations
Mass General for Children: Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition Program
55 Fruit St.
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 6B
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-8705
Medical Education
- MBBS, Dow Medical College
- Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital*****
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital*****
American Board Certifications
- Pediatric Gastroenterology, American Board of Pediatrics
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- 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
- Centene/Celticare
- 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)
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - ACD
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - PBO
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- Medicare ACO - ACD
- Medicare ACO - PBO
- OSW - Connecticut
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- OSW - New York
- 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
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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