Zahra Shajani-Yi, PhD, DABCC, FADLM

Zahra Shajani-Yi, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, is Senior Technical Director and Clinical
Chemist 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
currently serves as a Council Member for the Academy of Diagnostics and
Laboratory Medicine, as chair of the Academy’s Guidance Document committee, is
a member of ADLM’s ACCENT Review Board, and a member of the College of
American Pathology (CAP) Instrumentation Committee.

Dr. Shajani-Yi’s research and clinical interests are in endocrinology, sickle cell
disease and hemoglobinopathies, laboratory practice guidance documents and
assay interferences. She has co-authored more than forty peer-reviewed
manuscripts, book chapters and guidelines as Dr. Shajani and Dr. Shajani-Yi