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Dr Shuman Haq

Dr Haq specialises in paediatric nephrology.

MA, MRCPCH  

Training and education

  • BA Medical Sciences, University of Cambridge, 1990
  • MBBS, University of London, 1993
  • Paediatric SHO, Lewisham and Guy’s Hospitals, London, 1995 to 1997
  • Clinical research fellow, nephro-urology unit, Institute of Child Health/Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1997 to 2001
  • South Thames Paediatric SpR training programme, 2001 to 2003
  • Paediatric nephrology trainee, Guy’s Hospital, 2003 to 2005

Experience

Dr Haq has worked for the Trust since September 2005.

His basic science research on the cell biology of cystinosis was undertaken in the nephro-urology unit at the Institute of Child Health. Dr Haq completed clinical paediatric nephrology training at Great Ormond Street and Guy’s Hospitals.

Awards and prizes

  • Institute of Child Health / Great Ormond Street Hospital Science Development Initiative Training Fellowship, 1998
  • Jim Seakins Memorial Award, Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1998

Research

Gilbert RD, Turner CLS, Gibson J, Bass PS, Haq MR, Cross E, Bunyan DJ, Collins AR, Tapper W, Needell JC, Dell B, Morton NE, Temple IK, Robinson DO. Mutations in phospholipase C epsilon 1 are not sufficient to cause diffuse mesangial clerosis. Kidney Int. 2009 Feb; 75(4): 415-9.

Waters AM, Kerecuk L, Luk D, Haq MR, Fitzpatrick MM, Gilbert RD, Inward C, Jones C, Pichon B, Reid C, Slack MPE, Van’t Hoff W, Dillon MJ, Taylor CM, Tullus K. Hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with invasive pneumococcal disease: the UK experience. J Pediatr. 2007; 151(2):140-4

Kerecuk L, Sajoo A, McGregor L, Berg J, Haq MR, Sebire NJ, Bingham C, Edghill EL, Ellard S, Taylor J, Rigden S, Flinter FA, Woolf AS. Autosomal dominant inheritance of non-syndromic renal hypoplasia and dysplasia: dramatic variation in clinical severity in a single kindred. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007 Jan; 22(1): 259-63.

Laube GF, Shah V, Stewart VC, Hargreaves IP, Haq MR, Heales SJ, van't Hoff WG. Glutathione depletion and increased apoptosis rate in human cystinotic proximal tubular cells. Pediatr Nephrol. 2006 Apr; 21(4): 503-9.

Laube GF, Haq MR, van't Hoff WG. Exfoliated human proximal tubular cells: a model of cystinosis and Fanconi syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol. 2005 Feb; 20(2): 136-40.

Haq MR, Kalatzis V, Gubler M-C, Town MM, Antignac C, van’t Hoff WG, Woolf AS. Immunolocalization of Cystinosin, the Protein Defective in Cystinosis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2002; 13: 2046-2051