Dr Farrukh Shah

Dr Shah completed her medical training at Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Pakistan. She completed her haematology specialist registrar training on the UCLH rotoation and then undertook research with Professor John Porter at UCL. She was successfully awarded her MD on the relationship between non-transferrin bound iron and iron overload in sickle and thalassaemia syndromes. She became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008.

Dr Shah was appointed consultant Haematologist at the Whittington Hospital NHS in 2004 and and has worked at University College London Hospitals, London since 2006 as an honorary consultant. She currently undertakes one clinic a week on red cell disorders at UCLH. Dr Shah has an active research programme for patients at Whittington hospital and undertakes clinical trials on thalassaemia and sickle cell disorders. Dr Shah has published extensively in peer reviewed Jounals as part of her research work.

Dr Shah has been a member of the clinical reference group for haemoglobinopathies since 2013. She is the current Chair of the National Haemoglobiopathy Registry which records information on patients with haemoglobinopathies and rare anaemias in order to improve clinical care in the UK. In this capacity Dr Shah is also sits on the National haemoglobinopathy Panel both as an expert and as lead for the NHR. Dr Shah is also the current Chair of the UK Forum on haemoglobin Disorders (2019) and was treasurer from 2012. As a result of this Dr Shah is extensively involved in improving clinical care and access to expert care of patients in the UK.