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Dr Riyaz Shah

Consultant Medical Oncologist

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Portrait of Dr Riyaz Shah , Consultant Medical Oncologist
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Dr Riyaz Shah

Consultant Medical Oncologist

Dr Riyaz Shah related hospital List
Dr Riyaz Shah related speciality List

About Dr Riyaz Shah

Personal Profile

Dr Riyaz Shah qualified from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in 1994 and obtained MRCP in 1997. He was awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship with The Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Hammersmith Hospital) and obtained a PhD from Imperial College researching in the field of gene transcription and cancer.

He completed training in medical oncology at The Royal Marsden Hospital and was awarded an ASCO Foundation Merit Award in 2005 before being appointed Consultant Medical Oncologist in 2006.

He specialises in the treatment of thoracic cancers.  Dr Shah works within several multidisciplinary teams and ensures all private patients benefit from specialist discussions within these groups (including surgeons, radiotherapy and other chest specialists.

He is an active clinical researcher and acts as principal investigator on a range of clinical trials including phase II/III clinical trials of novel agents.

He has leadership roles in The British Thoracic Oncology Group and acts as a clinical advisor to the EGFR+ and ALK+ patient support groups.

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Clinical Interests

  • Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Small Cell lung Cancer
  • Mesothelioma
  • Thymic cancers
  • Clinical trials and new cancer drugs

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Languages spoken

English

GMC number

4109673
A General Medical Council (GMC) number is a unique ID that shows a specialist is officially registered and approved to practice medicine in the UK.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), MBBS, FRCP, PhD

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