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Shams Sheikh

Birthdate 3/6/73, Monroe County, New York 140 Mill Street Apt 213 East Haven CT 06512 203 466 1221 www.geocities.com/shamssheikh shamssheikh@yahoo.com

Education

BS Chemical Engineering, 6/95, University of Rochester Certificate of Biomedical Engineering, 6/95, University of Rochester GPA 3.98 out of 4.00 over eight semesters of undergraduate studies Accepted into SUNY School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences by Early Assurrance program Earned MD degree with Thesis Honors, 6/99 Internship in PCP Internal Medicine University of Rochester, 7/99-6/00 Residency in Diagnostic Radiology, Yale, New Haven CT, 7/00-6/04

Awards

Rigby-Wile Prize in Introductory Biology, 1992 Phi Beta Kappa, inducted in 1994 Albert K. Ackoff Award, awarded by Rochester AIChE, 1994 AIChE Scholastic Achievement Award, 1994 American Chemical Society Chemistry Achievement Award, 1995 Daniel Ward Healy, Jr. Memorial Prize, for Tissue Culture Research, 1995 Deans Letter of Commendation, Medical School, 1996, 1997 Induction into James A. Gibson Anatomical Society, 1996 Thesis Honors with MD degree, 1999

Experience

Report Turnaround Task Force

Yale New Haven Hospital, Currently

Task force to improve radiology report turn around time to twenty four hours, with use of voice to text recognition system.

Virtual Endoscopy

Lucas Center, Department of Radiology, Stanford University

Palo Alto, California, June 1997 to August 1997

Using spiral CT to render virtual endoscopic movies, I took the rendered movies and arranged them to give an unobstructed 180 field of view, similar to flying through the organ in a virutal cockpit. The virtual cockpit allows one to see ahead and follow a pathology from a distance to the side of you as you might naturally follow an object as you pass it while driving in a car, or flying in a plane. Published in volume 2 RSNA EJ.

Expectations and Satisfaction of Ambulatory Care Surgical Patients

Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, June 1996 to August 1996

The clinical research project consisted of determining ambulatory surgical patients' expectations and then comparing them to their post surgical outcomes. I was involved in setting up the project and collecting the data. Currently the data is being reviewed.

TIssue Culture, Production and Assay of Recombinant Hormones

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, June 1994 to April 1995

In this project I developed a rapid, quantitative assay for specific human hormones based on ELISA technique. The cell line was adapted to a serum free medium. Production of the hormone from a tissue culture process was explored with microcarriers, roller bottles, and a hollow fiber reactor.

Work for Professor Sotrichos, Chemical Engineering Department

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, Frebruary 1992 to September 1993

The project involved scanning in thermodynamic data in order to create a data base on the computer. The data could then be organized to analyze a series of reactions, including evaluating equilibrium constants.

Laboratory for Laser Energetics Library Assistant, University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, September 1991 to January 1992

Shelving, copying, and distributing current articles to professors in the lab. Used Claris Fileaker for Macintosh to record number of articles copied and produced summary report at end of quarter.

Volunteer for Friends of Strong, Strong Memorial Hospital

Rochester, New York, Summer of 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993

Radiology Assistant

Involved assisting radiological techinicians in setting up radiological exams.

Special Skills

Programming in FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, OpenGL, VRML 2.0

Experience with UNIX and MS-Windows based applications

Interests

Moutain biking, downhill skiing, riding rollercoasters, following the stock market.