Shafinaz Akhter - Faculty Biosketch

Shafinaz Akhter, MD, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Attending Physician, Chester County Hospital

Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Chester County Hospital

Department: Medicine

Contact information

Chester County Hospital, Infectious Diseases Division, Suite 3
West Chester, PA 19380

Office: (267) 671-8178

Education:
BSc (Biology)
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1995.
PhD (Cellular and Molecular Medicine)
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2001.
MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2004.

Post-Graduate Training
Internship in Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2004-2005.
Residency in Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2005-2007.
Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2007-2009.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2007.
American Board of Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, 2019.

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Selected Publications

Akhter S: “Evaluation of current diagnosis of UTI vs surveillance criteria based diagnosis” Annual IDWeek Scientific Conference, San Diego, CA Oct 2017 Notes: Poster Presentation.

Wallace KN, Akhter S, Smith EM, Lorent K, Pack M: Intestinal growth and differentiation in zebrafish. Mechanisms of development 122(2): 157-73, Feb 2005.

Akhter S, Kovbasnjuk O, Li X, Cavet M, Noel J, Arpin M, Hubbard AL, Donowitz M: Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3 is in large complexes in the center of the apical surface of proximal tubule-derived OK cells. American journal of physiology 283(3): C927-40, Sep 2002.

Cavet ME, Akhter S, Murtazina R, Sanchez de Medina F, Tse CM, Donowitz M: Half-lives of plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) exchangers NHE1-3: plasma membrane NHE2 has a rapid rate of degradation. American journal of physiology 281(6): C2039-48, Dec 2001.

Donowitz M, Janecki A, Akhter S, Cavet ME, Sanchez F, Lamprecht G, Zizak M, Kwon WL, Khurana S, Yun CH, Tse CM: Short-term regulation of NHE3 by EGF and protein kinase C but not protein kinase A involves vesicle trafficking in epithelial cells and fibroblasts. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 915(1): 30-42, Dec 2000.

Janecki AJ, Janecki M, Akhter S, Donowitz M: Quantitation of plasma membrane expression of a fusion protein of Na/H exchanger NHE3 and green fluorescence protein (GFP) in living PS120 fibroblasts. The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry 48(11): 1479-92, Nov 2000.

Janecki AJ, Janecki M, Akhter S, Donowitz M: Basic fibroblast growth factor stimulates surface expression and activity of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger NHE3 via mechanism involving phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. The Journal of biological chemistry 275(11): 8133-42, Mar 2000.

Akhter S, Cavet ME, Tse CM, Donowitz M: C-terminal domains of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger isoform 3 are involved in the basal and serum-stimulated membrane trafficking of the exchanger. Biochemistry 39(8): 1990-2000, Feb 2000.

Cavet ME, Akhter S, de Medina FS, Donowitz M, Tse CM: Na(+)/H(+) exchangers (NHE1-3) have similar turnover numbers but different percentages on the cell surface. The American journal of physiology 277(6 Pt 1): C1111-21, Dec 1999.

Weinman EJ, Steplock D, Zhang X, Akhter S, Shenolikar S: Molecular cloning of the cDNA and promoter sequences for the mouse sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor. Biochimica et biophysica acta 1447(1): 71-6, Oct 1999.