Zahra Shajani-Yi, PhD, DABCC

Senior Clinical Chemist | Senior Technical Director | Discipline Director, Immunoassays

Phone Number: 858 668-3761
Email: [email protected]

Zahra Shajani-Yi, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, is a Senior Clinical Chemist and Senior Technical Director at Labcorp and serves nationally as Discipline Director for Routine Immunoassays. Prior to joining Labcorp, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with clinical responsibilities as Associate Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry and Medical Director of Esoteric Chemistry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville Tennessee.

Dr. Shajani-Yi earned her BSc in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver British Columbia, and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed a Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (DABCC), a Fellow of the Academy of Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (FADLM), board-certified by the National Registry of Certified Chemists (NRCC) and Clinical Chemist (Director) by the California Department of Public Health.

Dr Shajani-Yi is an active member of several professional organizations and has served as a Council Member for the Academy of Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine, as chair of the Academy’s Guidance Document committee, a member of ADLM’s ACCENT Review Board, and as a member of the College of American Pathology (CAP) Instrumentation and Clinical Chemistry Committees. She is also a member of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Board of Directors.

Dr. Shajani-Yi’s research and clinical interests are in endocrinology, hemoglobinopathies, and assay interferences. She has co-authored more than forty-five peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and guidance documents as Dr. Shajani and Dr. Shajani-Yi. She is actively involved in teaching laboratory medicine residents and clinical chemistry fellows.