Tejshri Shah

Consultant in infectious diseases and immunology

Area of expertise: infectious disease and immunology

Biography

Tejshri Shah, qualified from Leeds Medical School in 1994 and trained in paediatrics in Yorkshire and London, including specialist training at Great Ormond Street Hospital and St Mary's Hospital in London.

Since 1999, Tejshri has worked intermittently for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in different roles: direct work in crisis-affected countries, leading a specialised medical unit in London, non-executive chair of one its operational centres and part of its international board. She has also worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Sierra Leone and Geneva.

Tejshri joined Evelina London in 2017, and alongside her clinical work, she is the medical technical manager for MSF in Brussels.

Further information

1994: MBChB – University of Leeds
1996: Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
1998: Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
2005: MSc Public health in developing countries – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2016: Paediatric infectious disease and immunology, GRID training completed
2020: Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH)

Dr Tejshri Shah’s publicationsCongenital Cytomegalovirus: A European Expert Consensus Statement on Diagnosis and Management
Luck SE, Wieringa JW, Blázquez-Gamero D, Henneke P, Schuster K, Butler K, Capretti MG, Cilleruelo, MJ, Curtis, N, Garofoli F, Heath P, Iosifidis E, Klein N, Lombardi G, Lyall H, Nieminen T, Pajkrt D, Papaevangelou V, Posfay-Barbe K, Puhakka L, Roilides E, Rojo P, Saavedra-Lozano J, Shah T, Sharland M, Saxen H, Vossen A on Behalf of the ESPID Congenital CMV Group Meeting, Leipzig 2015
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal: December 2017 - Volume 36 - Issue 12 - p 1205–1213

Inpatient signs and symptoms and factors associated with death among children aged ≤5 years admitted to two Ebola Management Centres in Sierra Leone, 2014: a retrospective cohort study.
Shah T, Greig J, Van der Plas LM, Achar J, Caleo G, Squire JS, Turray AS, Joshy G, D'Este C, Banks E, Vogt F, Lokuge K
Lancet Global Health 2016; 4: e495–501.

Fifteen Minute Consultation: Diagnosis and management of Congenital CMV
Shah T, Luck S, Sharland M, Kadambari S, Heath P, Lyall H.
Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed 2016; 0:1–4.

Ebola Response in Sierra Leone: the impact on children.
Fitzgerald F, Awonuga W, Shah T, Youkee D.Journal of Infection 2016; 72: S6–S12.
Ebola in children: a personal perspective.Shah TJournal of Virus Eradication 2015 1: 206 - 207

Recent Developments and Future Opportunities in the Treatment of Tuberculosis in Children.
Seddon JA, McKenna L, Shah T, Kampmann BClin Infect Dis. 2015; 61:S188-99.

A retrospective analysis of paediatric tuberculosis diagnosis in London: room for improvement?Shah T, Williams B, Langer D, Mitchell H, Togo A, Kreins AY, Caddle L, Das S, Lutkin M, Seddon JA
Arch Dis Child 2015;100:1097-1098

Dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency: A predisposition to sclerosing cholangitis. Shah T, Cale C, Hadzic D, Jones AClin Immunology 2014; 155(1): 71-3

Let sleeping dogs lie: a surprising chest X-ray in the paediatric emergency department(re: hydatid disease)Shah T, Le Geyt J, Atkins JBMJ Case Reports 2014.

Mental health services for children exposed to armed conflict: Médecins Sans Frontières experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and occupied Palestinian territory.
Lokuge K, Shah T, Pintaldi G , Thurber K, Martínez-Viciana C, Cristobal M, Palacios L, Dear K , Banks E.
Paediatrics and international child health 2013, 33:259-272.

Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a remote conflict-affected area of Democratic Republic of Congo.Shanks L, Masumbuko EW, Ngoy NM, Maneno M, Bartlett S, Thi S, Shah T.
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Vol. 16 (8), August 2012. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.11.0240

Ethical dilemmas in medical humanitarian practice: cases for reflection from Médecins sans Frontières
Sheather J, Shah T.
J Med Ethics 2010 doi:10.1136/jme.2010.038448