Rajal B. Shah, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology and Urology
Campus Address:
2G332 University Hospital, 0054
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-0054
Phone: 734/647-6287
rajshah@umich.edu

 

Biography | Clinical Interests | Research Interests | Selected Publications



 

Brief Biography

Dr. Shah received his M.D. from Gujarat University in India in 1989. He engaged in pathology residency training at Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute in Indria from 1989-1993. Dr. Shah then went to the St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit for anatomic and clinical pathology training from 1995-1999. The following two years he served as a Genitourinary and Surgical Pathology Fellow at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

Clinical Interests

Surgical Pathology, Genitourinary Pathology, Nephropathology

 

Research Interests

Genitourinary Pathology; Prostate, Renal and Bladder Cancers
Dr. Shah's major clinical and research interests involve genitourinary surgical pathology.

 

Selected Publications

Shah R, Bassily N, Wei J, Mucci NR, Montie J, Sanda M and Rubin MA. Benign Prostatic Glands at Surgical Margins of Radical Prostatectomy Specimens: Frequency and Associated Risk Factors. Urology 56: 721-725, 2000.

Shah R, Lee MW, Giraldo A and Amin MB . Histological and Histochemical Characterization of Intraluminal Seminal Vesicle Secretions: Particular Emphasis on its Crystalloid Morphology. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 125:141-145; 2001.

Shah R, Mucci NR, Anita Amin, Jill A. Macoska, and Mark A. Rubin. Postatrophic Hyperplasia of the Prostate Gland: Neoplastic Precursor or Innocent Bystander? Am J Pathol, 158:1775-1784, 2001.

Dhanasekaran S, Barrette T, Mucci N, Shah R, Kurachi K, Pienta K, Rubin MA and Chinnaiyan AM. Molecular Profiling of Prostate Cancer: Delineation of Candidate Biomarkers and Regulatory Genes. Nature, 412:822-826, 2001.

Thou M, Shah R, Proverbs-Singh T and Rubin MA. Lack of Association Between Prostate Carcinoma Nuclear Grading and Prostate Specific Antigen Recurrence Following Radical Prostatectomy. In Press, Journal of Urology