Email

shifa.umar@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medicine - Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston

Staff, Physician

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Education

Fellowship at Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN

Residency at Allegheny Health Network

Pittsburgh, PA

Fellowship at University of Chicago

Chicago

Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine

ABIM

American Board of Gastroenterology

ABIM

Honors & Awards

American Pancreatic Association Young Investigator Grant

09/2023

American Pancreatic Association Poster of Distinction:

09/2023

ASGE Video Plenary

05/2023

AGA Tech Summit Innovation Fellows Program

03/2023

Section Editor – Trainee Hub Section, The American College of Gastroenterology Magazine

01/2021 - 10/2022

ACG Young Physician Leadership Scholars Program

09/2021

DDW Poster of Distinction

05/2021

ACG Presidential Poster Award 2020

09/2020

“ACG Scopy Award - Best CRC Community Outreach During COVID”

07/2020

Professional Interests

• Chronic and Acute Pancreatitis
• Pancreas Cyst
• Autoimmune Pancreatitis
• Pancreas Cancer Screening
• Endoscopic Ultrasound
• EUS guided ablation
• ERCP and Cholangioscopy
• Endo Hepatology
• Enteral Stenting
• Luminal Strictures
• Endoscopic Mucosal Resection
• Interventional Endoscopy
• Barrett's Esophagus Surveillance and Ablation

Memberships

American College of Gastroenterology

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

AGA

Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

American Pancreas Association