Shamim Islam

Shamim M. Islam
MD, DTM&H

Shamim M. Islam MD, DTM&H

UBMD Pediatrics

Specialties

Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Pediatrics

Accepting new patients
 

Professional Summary:

My scholastic interests are varied, and include clinical reasoning and medical education, international infectious diseases and public health, diagnostic marker performance, and antimicrobial stewardship. The below elaborates on these, including my recent and current academic involvement in some of these areas:

1. Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship: Antibiotics are amongst the most frequently prescribed medicines in children, but up to 50% of their use may be unnecessary. Indiscriminate antibiotic use contributes to medical costs, the development of multi-drug resistant pathogens, and can lead to adverse events. In collaboration with various specialists at our Children’s Hospital, I’ve led several active projects studying the antibiotic utilization patterns and clinical outcomes of common pediatric infectious conditions, including osteo-articular infections, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in neonates, and sepsis in the PICU. My most recent foci with collaborators has been in various outpatient setting, including Urinary tract infections (UTIs) and Upper respiratory Infections in community based private clinics and urgent care centers.

2. Global Antimicrobial Resistance: Sources, Drivers, and Dissemination: Antimicrobial-resistance (AMR) is a pressing international public health problem that disproportionately affects lower income countries, whose sources, reasons for dissemination, and overall epidemiology, continue to be poorly characterized. My scholastic focus in this area has been on intestinal colonization of multi-drug resistance bacteria, and the role of international travel and environmental factors in AMR emergence and spread. As part of multi-disciplinary AMR research team at UB, we aim to more comprehensively explore environmental contributors to AMR dissemination and as source of acquisition for humans. We held a symposium/workshop with several prominent scholars at UB in May, 2018, and have received a UB ‘Big Ideas’ seed grant to examine AMR in the environment in Bangladesh. We have also prepared grants for the NIH and CDC awards, with UB and various national collaborators.

3. Medical Education: The landscape of medical education is constantly changing, creating both extraordinary opportunities but also novel challenges. My growing interest and involvement in the field are focused on the science of learning, clinical reasoning skills, and the incorporation of humanities throughout the continuum of medical education and training.

4. Interferon-gamma-release assays (IGRAs) in the evaluation of Pediatric Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) and Tuberculosis (TB) Disease: The newer, blood based IGRAs promise diagnostic specificity and potentially sensitivity advantages over the traditional tuberculin-skin test (TST), but data and experience in children is relatively limited. In collaboration with colleagues at the California Dept. of Public Health, we are examining the performance of IGRAs in the pediatric population, including studies that compare the IGRAs to the TST, and which assess negative predictive value through longitudinal follow-up.

Specialties:

Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics

Patients Treated:

Children, Adolescents

Additional Languages:

Fluent Bengali, Basic French, Intermediate Spanish

Physician Gender:

Male


Appointments:

UBMD Pediatrics Outpatient Center
Conventus
1001 Main Street
4th Floor
Buffalo, New York 14203
Office Hours: Tuesday: 8:00 am-12:00 pm; Wednesday: 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Phone: (716) 323-0150
Fax: (716) 323-0296
Accepting new patients

Insurance Accepted:
  • Aetna U.S. Healthcare
  • Blue Cross & Blue Shield of WNY Inc
  • CIGNA HealthCare
  • Community Blue (HMO)
  • Community Blue Advantage
  • Coventry
  • Empire
  • Fidelis
  • Independent Health Association (HMO)
  • Independent Health Medisource
  • Lifetime Benefit Solutions / RMSCO
  • MVP Healthcare
  • Magnacare
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Nofault
  • North American Administrators
  • Nova
  • POMCO
  • Preferred Care
  • Railroad Medicare
  • TriCare/Champus
  • Tricare
  • United Healthcare
  • Univera Health Care (HMO)
  • Veterans Administration
  • WellCare
  • Workers Comp


Board Certifications:

  • Board Certification, American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Education and Training:

  • Certificate, Medical Educators, Royal College of Physicians (2019)
  • Certificate, Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases, University of Washington Summer Institute (2011)
  • Fellowship, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children‘s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (2011)
  • Certificate, Fundamentals of Healthcare Epidemiology: Essentials for Preventing Healthca, Infectious Diseases Society of America/Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2010)
  • Certificate, Case Management of the Complicated Tropical Medicine Patient, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2010)
  • Fellowship, Disease Control Activities, Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center (2010)
  • Certificate, Infection Control Fellows Course, Infectious Diseases Society of America/Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2009)
  • Certificate, Summer Clinical Research Workshop, University of California, San Francisco (2009)
  • Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2006)
  • Residency, Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco (2005)
  • Internship, Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco (2003)
  • MD, Medicine, Cornell University Weill Medical College (2002)
  • BS, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996)

Awards and Honors:

  • Buffalo Spree Magazine: Top Doctor in Western NY (2022)
  • Buffalo Spree Magazine: Top Doctors in Western New York (2020)
  • University of Washington: Summer Institute on Statistics and Modeling of Infectious Diseases Scholarship (2011)

Research Profile:

This UBMD physician is also a member of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, teaching the next generation of doctors and researching to advance care in WNY and beyond. Learn more about this physician's research and teaching activities, as well as view credentials, publications, professional involvement and more below.


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