Ph.D., DABAP, ECFMG, MBBS., FLE
Head of Department
Pathology
Date of Joining: 15/11/2017
Head of Department
Pathology
Date of Joining: 15/11/2017
Professional Summary
Dr. Sania Shuja is a Pathologist & Head of Pathology Department at SMDC and Director of Shalamar Pathology Laboratory at Shalamar Hospital, Lahore.
Dr. Sania Shuja acquired her medical education at King Edward Medical College, Lahore. She completed her internship at Mayo Hospital, Lahore, and completed her pathology residency and fellowship at Boston University Medical Centre Hospitals, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Prior to joining Shalamar, Dr. Sania Shuja was a Staff Pathologist & Clinical Professor at University Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.
| Title | From | To | Institution | City/Country |
| Professor, Head of Pathology Department | 11/2017 | Present | Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Clinical Professor | 02/2016 | 11/2017 | Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Washington, School of Medicine | Seattle, WA, U.S.A. |
| Associate Professor | 07/2000 | 10/2015 | Department of Pathology, University of Florida Health Science Center | Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A. |
| Graduate School Faculty | 08/1996 | 06/2000 | Boston University Graduate School | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Assistant Professor | 07/1993 | 06/2000 | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Instructor | 07/1991 | 06/1993 | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Teaching fellow | 07/1987 | 06/1991 | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| W.M.O/Lecturer | 07/1982 | 08/1986 | King Edward Medical College and Mayo Hospital | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Title | From | To | Institution | City/Country |
| Fellow, Surgical Pathology / Hematopathology | 07/1992 | 06/1994 | Boston University Hospital | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Chief Resident | 07/1991 | 06/1992 | Boston University Hospital | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Senior Resident | 07/1990 | 06/1991 | Boston University Hospital | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Junior Resident | 07/1989 | 06/1990 | Boston University Hospital | Boston, MA, U.S.A. |
| Medical and Surgical internship | 07/1981 | 06/1982 | Mayo Hospital | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Consultant Pathologist | 11/2017 | Present | Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Staff- Pathologist | 02/2016 | 11/2017 | Seattle Cancer Care Alliance | Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 02/2016 | 11/2017 | Harborview Hospital | Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 02/2016 | 11/2017 | Northwest Hospital | Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 02/2016 | 11/2017 | University of Washington Medical Center | Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 07/2000 | 10/2015 | Shands Jacksonville Hospital, University of Florida | Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 07/1996 | 06/2000 | Boston Medical Center | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 07/1994 | 06/2000 | Mallory Institute of Pathology | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 11/1994 | 06/1996 | Boston City Hospital | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| Staff- Pathologist | 02/1994 | 06/1996 | Boston University Medical Center Hospital | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| Title | Year | Institute | City/ Country |
| Exemplary Teacher’s Award | 2010 | University of Florida, College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A. | |
| Secretary Faculty Council | Jul 2008 – Jun 2010 | University of Florida, College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A. | |
| Exemplary Teacher’s Award | 2008 | University of Florida, College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A. | |
| Principal Investigator. Funding amount $10, 000. Project Title: “Expression of cathepsins B, H, L and D in GlioblastomaMultiforme.” | 2004 – 2005 | Deans Fund, Senior Investigator Award, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A. | |
| Boston Section of the American Association for Cancer Research | 1997 – 1998 | President, Boston Cancer Research Association, Boston, MA, U.S.A. | |
| Boston Section of the American Association for Cancer Research | 1996 – 1997 | Vice President, Boston Cancer Research Association, Boston, MA, U.S.A. | |
| Comparative Analyses of Cathepsin B Enzyme Activity and mRNA Content in Cancers of the Thyroid, Larynx and Oral Cavity | 1990 to 1991 | Boston University School & Medicine Graduate Student Award (BUSM GRSA) Award (Dr. Sania Shuja PI) | |
| Comparative Analyses of Cathepsin B Enzyme Activity and mRNA Content in Cancers of the Thyroid, Larynx and Oral Cavity | 1990 to 1991 | American Cancer Society (ACS) Hubert Humphrey Institutional Grant Award( Dr. Sania Shuja, PI) |
| Title of Research/ Published Article | Year of Publication | Journal Name | Author/ Co-authors |
| Prevalence of epithelial abnormalities and high-risk human papilloma virus in cervicovaginal Pap smears of population subgroups as a guide toward evidence-based best practice | 2019 | DiagnCytopathol, Feb 2019.doi: 10.1002/dc.24158 | Siddiqi, A, Webb, F, Smotherman, C, Shuja, S, Mubeen, A and Lai, K. |
| Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate Induced Esophageal Ulcer and Gastritis | 2016 | Endoscopy, Mar 2016, Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages 664–665. | Ronald Brown, II, Joshua Samuel, KamalpreetParmar, Sania Shuja, Silvio W. de MeloJr |
| Unexpected Bone Metastases From Thyroid Cancer | 2015 | Case reports in Endocrinology. Jul 2015. Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 434732, 4 pages | Sandra Gibiezaite, SavasOzdemir, Sania Shuja, Barry McCook, Monica Plazarte and Mae Sheikh-Ali. |
| Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the rectum presenting with extensive metastatic disease | 2014 | Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2014:386379. doi: 10.1155/2014/386379. Epub 2014 Jul 16. PMID25225617 | VinayMinocha, Sania Shuja, Robert Ali, Amalie Eid. |
| Mucoepidermoid carcinoma presenting as a large cyst of the parotid gland in HIV disease | 2013 | Journal of ear, nose and throat, 2013, 92(7), 310-311, PMID: 23904307 | Nelson Goldman, Sania Shuja, Reginald Griffin and RaafatMakary. |
| Management of ParatesticularRhabomyosarcoma in an Adult Patient: A Case Report | 2011 | British Journal of Urology International website (bjui.org): March 22, 2011 | Eddie L. Lambert, Stephen E. Mandia, Raafat F. Makary, Sania Shuja, and Christopher R. Williams. |
| Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting initially as pelvic soft tissue metastases involving the bone: Case report and review of literature | 2011 | Archives of Pathology & laboratory medicine, 2011, 135(9): 1220 | Nikhil.G. Patel, RaafatMakary, Amir Mohammadi, and Sania Shuja. |
| Active MMP-2 activity discriminates colonic mucosa, adenomas with and without high grade dysplasia and cancers | 2011 | Human Pathology, 2011, 42:688-701). | Murnane, M.J., JinguoCai, Sania Shuja, David McAneny, Veronica Klepeis and John B. Willett. |
| Paraneoplastic necrotizing myopathy associated with limited stage small cell lung cancer | 2011 | ClinAdvHematolOncol. 2011 Jul;9(7):557-6PMID: 22402465 | Ho John Vu, Tim Nguyen, Dat Pham, RaafatMakary and Sania Shuja |
| Primary osteosarcoma of the maxilla. Journal of ear, nose and throat, Head and Neck Clinics | 2010 | October 2010; 89(10):484-486 | RaafatMakary, Nelson Goldman, RuiFernandes and Sania Shuja. |
| Twin gestation with complete hydatidiform mole and a coexisting live fetus: Case report and brief review of literature | 2010 | Obstet Med 2010;3:30-32 | RaafatMakary, Sania Shuja, Amir Mohammadi, and Marilin Rosa. |
| Medium and Small Vessel Vasculitis with Large Bowel Infarction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A case report | 2009 | Journal of Gastroenteroloy 2009; 104:1859–1860; doi:10.1038/ajg.2009.242 | RaafatMakary, Cindy L. Davis and Sania Shuja. |
| Active MMP-2 effectively identifies the presence of colorectal cancer. | 2009 | Int. J. Cancer: 125, 2893–2902 (2009). | Mary Jo Murnane, JinguoCai, Sania Shuja, David McAneny. |
| Glioneuralhamartoma with unusual clinical manifestations in a case of pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy | 2009 | The Internet Journal of Neurology. Vol. 11#2 | RaafatMakary, Amir Mohammadi, and Sania Shuja. |
| Variable histological and ultrasonic characteristics of restenosis after drug-eluting stents | 2008 | International Journal of Cardiology, 2008;130(3):444-8. | Suzuki Nobuaki; Angiolillo Dominick J; Monteiro Carmela; Shuja Sania; Futamatsu Hideki; Kawaguchi Ren; Box Lyndon C; Guzman Luis; Zenni Martin M; Gilmore Paul S; Bass Theodore A; Costa Marco A. |
| Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Metastasis to the Frontal Skull | 2009 | Journal of Diagnostic Cytopathology, Jul 2009;37#7, 522 – 526. | Dian Feng, Ronald Rhatigan, Sania Shuja, David Wolfson, RaafatMakary, Kathryn Koch and Shahla Masood. |
| CADASIL disease, an inherited slowly progressive vascular dementia: Case report with radiological and electron microscopic findings | 2009 | Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular diseases, November 2009, 18(6): 491-493 | Sania Shuja,Justin Lindquist, Kevin P. Lee, Scott Silliman and RaafatMakary. |
| Active MMP-2 Effectively Identifies the Presence of Colorectal Cancer | 2009 | Original Research article: Int. J. Cancer: 125, 2893–2902 | Murnane, M.J., JinguoCai, Sania Shuja, David McAneny, Veronica Klepeis and John B. Willett. |
| Unusual histological variant of Ewing’s sarcoma of mandible: Case report | 2009 | International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery2009, (38) #8, 891-894 | RaafatMakary, Melissa Tucker, Rui P. Fernandes and Sania Shuja. |
| Cytomorphology of Primary Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Lung | 2009 | DiagCytopathol 37(2):146-9 | Ni Jin, Chris Nguyen, Sania Shuja,RaafatMakary, and David Wolfson. |
| Rhabdoid meningioma in a background of atypical meningioma with lipomatous metaplasia: Case report and review of literature | 2008 | Internet Journal of Neurosurgery. Volume 5 Number 1 | Sania Shuja, Timothy Lucey and Victor DaSilva and RaafatMakary. |
| Patterns of Cathepsin H Expression in GlioblastomaMultiforme: Diverse subcellular localization patterns suggest a complex role in the biology of these tumors | 2008 | Internet Journal of Pathology, volume 7#1 | Sania Shuja, Amir Mohammadi, Stephan Grigorian, and Steve Goodison. |
| Diagnosis of McArdle’s disease in an elderly man: Case report and review of literature | 2008 | Internet Journal of Neurology, volume 9#1 | RaafatMakary, Sania Shuja, Nadeem Talpur and Alan Berger, MD. |
| Intramedullary mature teratoma of the cervical spinal cord at C1–2 associated with occult spinal dysraphism in an adult | 2007 | Case report and review of the literature. J. Neurosurg. Spine; 6:579–584 | RaafatMakary, David Wolfson, Victor DaSilva, Amir Mohammadi and Sania Shuja. |
| Cathepsin D protein levels in colorectal tumors: Divergent expression patterns suggest complex regulation and function | 2004 | Int. J. Oncol. 24(3):473-85 | Iacobuzio-Donahue, C., Shuja, S.,Cai, J., Peng, P., Willet, J. and Murnane, M.J. |
| Alterations in cathepsin H activity and protein pattern in human colorectal carcinomas | 2000 | British Journal of Cancer 82(7):1317-26 | Del Re, E., Shuja, S.,Cai, J. and Murnane, M.J. |
| Cathepsin B activity and protein levels in thyroid carcinoma, Graves’ disease and multinodular goiters | 1999 | Thyroid 9(6):569-577 | Shuja, S., Cai, J., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C., Zacks, J., Heimann, R., Beazley, R. M., Kasznica, J. M., O’Hara, C. J. and Murnane, M.J. |
| Presence of activated Ras correlates with increased cysteine protease activities in human colorectal carcinomas | 1998 | International Journal of Cancer 79, 324-333 | Kim, K., Cai, J., Shuja, S.,Kuo, T., Grilli, A. and Murnane, M. J. |
| Characterizing human colorectal carcinomas by proteolytic profile | 1997 | In Vivo 11(3):209-216 | Murnane, M. J., Shuja, S., del Re E., Cai, J., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C. and Kleipes, V. |
| Elevations in cathepsin B protein content and enzyme activity occur independently of glycosylation during colorectal tumor progression | 1997 | Journal of Biological Chemistry 272(46):29190-29199 | Iacobuzio-Donahue, C., Shuja, S.,Cai, J. and Murnane, M. J. |
| N-ras protein: Frequent quantitative and qualitative changes occur in human colorectal carcinomas | 1997 | International Journal of Cancer, 71:767-775 | Kim, K., Kuo. T., Cai, J., Shuja, S. and Murnane, M. J. |
| Marked increases in cathepsins B and L activities distinguish papillary carcinoma of thyroid from normal thyroid or thyroid with nonneoplastic disease | 1996 | International Journal of Cancer 66:420-426 | Shuja, S. and Murnane, M. J. |
| Changing patterns of proteolytic expression in colorectal tumor progression | 1994 | Volume of the Proceedings of the Chiba International Symposium for Cancer, 11-26 | Murnane, M.J., Cai, J., Shuja, S., Cote, L., del Re, E., Iacobuzio, C., Kim, K., and Sheahan, K. |
| Cysteine protease activity levels in normal human tissues and in colorectal adenomas and carcinoma | 1991 | International Journal of Cancer, 49:341-346 | Shuja, S., Sheahan, K., and Murnane, M. J. |
| Stage specific increase in cathepsin B mRNA content in human colorectal carcinoma | 1991 | Cancer Research 51:1137-1142 | Murnane, M.J., Sheahan, K., Ozdemirli, M., and Shuja, S. |
| Cysteine protease activities and tumor development in human colorectal carcinoma | 1989 | Cancer Research 49:3808-3814 | Sheahan, K., Shuja, S., and Murnane, M.J. |
| Title | From | To |
| Pacific Northwest Society of Pathologists | 2016 | 2019 |
| United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology | 1997 | 2017 |
| College of American Pathologists | 1996 | 2015 |
| American Thyroid Association | 1998 | 2007 |
| American Society for the Advancement of Science | 1995 | 2002 |
| Association of Physicians of Pakistani-Descent of North America | 1992 | present |
| American Society for Cell Biology | 1991 | 1998 |
| American Association for Cancer Research | 1991 | 2004 |
| Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society | 1990 | present |
| Boston Cancer Research Association (Boston Section of the American Association for Cancer Research) | 1988 | 2000 |
| New England Pathology Residents Society | 1987 | 1993 |
| United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) – International Academy of Pathologist (IAP) | 2017 | Present |
