Dr. Zarqa Noreen Shah Specialist Obstetrics & Gynecology

Biography

Dr. Zarqa Noreen Shah has 20 years of experience. She graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore, Pakistan, and completed her post-graduate training from Services Hospital and Post Graduate Medical Institute in Lahore. Later she worked at Al Amal Maternity Hospital and Fertility Center, Amman, Jordan, for 12 years and obtained Her MRCOG, gaining expertise in obstetrics, gynecology, and advanced fertility treatments. She obtained her Master’s training certification in infertility treatments from Homerton University Hospital. She worked in JCI accredited Hospital in UAE for seven years in Dubai. Her approach to treating women is different because she makes them partners in their journey to motherhood, taking time to listen to them, understanding the depth of their problems, and offering un-hurried consultations. She emphasizes minimal medical intervention. In her opinion, proper pre-conception and early pregnancy counseling and creating a treatment plan customized to a couple’s needs can go a long way in helping risk management and have a positive birth experience. Her areas of expertise include,

• Independent management of obstetric cases (antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal)
• Management of high-risk pregnancies
• Preconception counseling, antenatal education of natural birth
• Ultrasound monitoring of fetal well being
• Pregnant and postpartum rehabilitation
• Normal and instrumental deliveries, cesarean deliveries, vaginal birth after cesarean
• Management of miscarriages, dilation and curettage, and management of ectopic pregnancies
• Recurrent miscarriage management
• Contraception advice and guidance, placement, and removal of intrauterine contraceptive device
• Complete workup of infertile couples, management, and treatment of infertility, including management of polycystic ovarian syndrome and related issues
• Management of gynecological conditions such as pelvic infections, menstrual disorders, ovarian cysts, fibroids, endometriosis, screening for gynecological cancers
• Gynecological procedures such as pap smear, colposcopy and biopsies, cervical and endometrial biopsies, Mirena insertion and removal, removal of Bartholin’s cyst and abscess, valval and vaginal cysts, cervical and endometrial polypectomy, abdominal hysterectomy, myomectomy, and ovarian cystectomy
• Obstetrics and gynecological ultrasonography
• Diagnostic hysteroscopy and polypectomy and biopsy
• Pre- and post-menopausal health care, hormone replacement therapy, and detection and prevention of osteoporosis
• Adolescent and teen gynecology and counseling