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Dr. Shabnam Nasserifar Dr. Shabnam Nasserifar earned her medical degree in 2016. She then completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, followed by Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at NYU in New York. She is double board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"parent":3021,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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Dr. Bajaj <\/b>started his Endocrinology specialty clinical practice in Brampton in 2009 after completing his clinical fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic<\/a> (Ohio, USA). Dr. Bajaj\u2019s medical education was at Maulana Azad Medical College<\/a> (New Delhi, India), following which he attained a Masters of Public Health (MPH, major in Epidemiology) at State University of New York in Albany<\/a> (New York, USA).<\/p> Dr. Bajaj has been involved with teaching Endocrinology fellows at McMaster University<\/a> on techniques of neck ultrasound and ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) of thyroid nodules. He has been an active participant volunteering in diabetes programs and initiatives of Canadian Diabetes Association<\/a> and was elected to its Clinical & Scientific Section (C& SS) Executive as a councilor in October 2014.<\/p> Dr. Bajaj has pioneered \u201creal-life\u201d practical approaches to research in diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular risk assessment. He has co-authored publications in key medical journals such as Nature Publishing Group\u2019s<\/a> Obesity journal and Journal of American Medical Association<\/a> (JAMA). He has an interest in ethnicity-based research with a focus on diabetes and cardiometabolic diseases in South Asian community. He has developed and presented numerous lectures including a Morning talk show at the recent Canadian Diabetes Association<\/a> annual conference 2014 on this topic. He was the winner of the <\/i>David Axelrod Award for Excellence in Research at the State University of New York in Albany<\/a> for his research study titled \u201cAsian Indians- large but not obese<\/i>\u201d comparing abdominal adiposity markers and cardiovascular risk factors between Asian Indian and U.S. Populations. \u00a0With the intent of improving awareness around diabetes prevention and management in the community, Dr. Bajaj has founded a not-for-profit organization \u201cSTOP Diabetes\u201d Foundation<\/i><\/a> in 2013.<\/p> By way of his work in the clinic setting, public awareness efforts, CME lectures to specialist and family practice colleagues, research activities as well as through advisory to the health ministry, Dr. Bajaj is committed to improving the provision of diabetes and endocrine related health care in Canada.<\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74303\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmc.ca\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}