Shafinaz Akhter, MD

Infectious Diseases
Penn International Travel Medicine and Immunization Clinic Perelman
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About me

  • Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Chester County Hospital
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English
বাংলা
Bengali

Reviews

Average Rating

90 reviews

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Anonymous
April 2026
she's a wonderful dr.
Anonymous
April 2026
it is good to feel at ease to talk about medical issues.
Anonymous
April 2026
she is the best, i totally love her bedside manners, and listening skills. she doesn't interrupt nor treat me like i do not know my body.
Anonymous
February 2026
excellent

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Akhter S “Evaluation of current diagnosis of UTI vs surveillance criteria based diagnosis” , Annual meeting 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): 2005,157-73

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): 2002,927-40

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): 2001,C2039-48

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): 2000,30-42

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): 2000,1479-92

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): 2000,8133-42

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): 2000,1990-2000

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): 1999,1111-21

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): 1999,71-6