Shafinaz Akhter, MD

4.8 with 42 ratings

Shafinaz Akhter, MD

4.8 with 42 ratings

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Dr. Akhter is a Penn Medicine physician.

Not accepting new patients

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Programs and Centers

Penn Medicine's programs and centers combine doctors from many disciplines to coordinate care from start to finish. Dr. Akhter is part of these programs:

Penn Infectious Diseases Program

Education and Training

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Primary Location

Penn International Travel Medicine and Immunization Clinic Perelman

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
South Pavilion, 4th Floor
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

A facility of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Penn Medicine Hospital Privileges

Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Overall Ratings

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Aetna US Healthcare
Amerihealth Caritas
Amerihealth Caritas Medicare
Centivo Health Plan
Cigna
Cigna HealthSpring
Clover Health Plan
Devon Health Services (Americare)
Gateway Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan
Geisinger Medicaid
Global Medical Management
HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan
HealthPartners
HealthPartners Medicare
HealthSmart
Highmark Blue Shield
Homestead Smart Health Plans/Claim Watcher
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Humana / Choicecare
Humana / Medicare

Imagine Health 360
Independence Blue Cross (Keystone East)
Keystone First
Keystone First Medicare
Multiplan
NJ Medicaid
NJ Qualcare
Oscar Health Plan of PA
Oxford Health Plan
PA Health and Wellness (Centene) Medicare
PA Medicaid
PA Medicare
Provider Partners Health Plan
Rail Road Medicare / Palmetto GBA
Tricare
United Healthcare
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
US Family Health Plan
Veterans Choice Program
Vibra Health Plan

Selected Publications

Akhter S: “Evaluation of current diagnosis of UTI vs surveillance criteria based diagnosis” Annual IDWeek Scientific Conference, San Diego, CA : 2017.

Wallace KN, Akhter S, Smith EM, Lorent K, Pack M: Intestinal growth and differentiation in zebrafish Mechanisms of development 122 (2): 157-73,2005.

Akhter S, Kovbasnjuk O, Li X, Cavet M, Noel J, Arpin M, Hubbard AL, Donowitz M: Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3 is in large complexes in the center of the apical surface of proximal tubule-derived OK cells American journal of physiology 283 (3): C927-40,2002.

Cavet ME, Akhter S, Murtazina R, Sanchez de Medina F, Tse CM, Donowitz M: Half-lives of plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) exchangers NHE1-3: plasma membrane NHE2 has a rapid rate of degradation American journal of physiology 281 (6): C2039-48,2001.

Donowitz M, Janecki A, Akhter S, Cavet ME, Sanchez F, Lamprecht G, Zizak M, Kwon WL, Khurana S, Yun CH, Tse CM: Short-term regulation of NHE3 by EGF and protein kinase C but not protein kinase A involves vesicle trafficking in epithelial cells and fibroblasts Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 915 (1): 30-42,2000.

Janecki AJ, Janecki M, Akhter S, Donowitz M: Quantitation of plasma membrane expression of a fusion protein of Na/H exchanger NHE3 and green fluorescence protein (GFP) in living PS120 fibroblasts The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry 48 (11): 1479-92,2000.

Janecki AJ, Janecki M, Akhter S, Donowitz M: Basic fibroblast growth factor stimulates surface expression and activity of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger NHE3 via mechanism involving phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase The Journal of biological chemistry 275 (11): 8133-42,2000.

Akhter S, Cavet ME, Tse CM, Donowitz M: C-terminal domains of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger isoform 3 are involved in the basal and serum-stimulated membrane trafficking of the exchanger Biochemistry 39 (8): 1990-2000,2000.

Cavet ME, Akhter S, de Medina FS, Donowitz M, Tse CM: Na(+)/H(+) exchangers (NHE1-3) have similar turnover numbers but different percentages on the cell surface The American journal of physiology 277 (6 Pt 1): C1111-21,1999.

Weinman EJ, Steplock D, Zhang X, Akhter S, Shenolikar S: Molecular cloning of the cDNA and promoter sequences for the mouse sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor Biochimica et biophysica acta 1447 (1): 71-6,1999.

Academic Contact Information

Chester County Hospital, Infectious Diseases Division, Suite 3
West Chester, PA 19380
Phone: 267-671-8178
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366

Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), National