Shahin Jamal

Clinician Investigator, MD, FRCPC, MSc

 

Appointments

  • Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology at Vancouver Coastal Health
  • Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia
  • Co-Director, CanRIO Network (The Canadian Research Group of Rheumatology in Immuno-Oncology

Research Interests

  • Diagnosis and prognosis of early inflammatory arthritis
  • Timely assessment and access to care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
  • Rheumatologic immune mediated adverse events associated with immunotherapy in oncology

Dr. Jamal is a Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Clinician Investigator at Arthritis Research Canada. She completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy at McGill University, Doctor of Medicine at UBC and Masters in Clinical Epidemiology at University of Toronto.

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She is past Program Director of Adult Rheumatology at UBC, past-chair of the CRA Guidelines Committee and current director of the CRA RheumReview Course. She is the co-principal investigator of CanRIO, the Canadian Research Group of Rheumatology in Immuno-Oncology. She is an active clinician with a large practice of patients with rheumatic complications of cancer immunotherapy. Her interests include diagnosis and prognosis of early inflammatory arthritis, and rheumatologic immune mediated adverse events associated with immunotherapy in oncology.