About Dr. Rabia Shah

Dr. Rabia Shah is a DHA-licensed Specialist Pediatrician with deep neonatology training. She is currently a Clinical Fellow in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver. Her clinical focus is on newborns, NICU care, and the first 1,000 days of a child's life.

Selected as one of five fellows worldwide for this competitive two-year program.

Before Vancouver, she spent over two years as Associate Pediatrician in the Level 4 NICU at American Hospital Dubai — a JCI-accredited tertiary center staffed by Western board-certified neonatologists. She returns to AHD in August 2026 to continue her clinical practice.

She trained at Khyber Girls Medical College on open merit, completed her pediatric residency and neonatology clinical fellowship at Shifa International Hospital Islamabad (also JCI-accredited), holds MRCPCH from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) and FCPS in Pediatrics from the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan. She is a published researcher with peer-reviewed papers in pediatric and neonatal medicine, including Pediatric Pulmonology and the European Respiratory Journal, and has lectured internationally to doctors preparing for the MRCPCH Clinical examination.