Specialty: Medicine - Nephrology

Certification(s): Dr. Showkat is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and has Advance Cardiac Life Support certification.

Location(s):

Medical Degree: University of Dhaka, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M.B.B.S.)

Internship and Post-Graduate Training: (Internal Medicine and General Surgery) University of Dhaka, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Externship: (Internal Medicine) South West General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

Residency: (Chief Resident - Internal Medicine) Ohio Valley Medical Center, Wheeling, West Virginia

Fellowship: (Nephrology) University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis

Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis

Special Interest:

• Dialysis
• Metabolism
• Nephrology
• Renal Nutrition
• Transplantation

Professional Memberships:

• American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine
• American Medical Association
• American Society of Nephrology
• National Kidney Foundation

Awards & Honors:

• Resident of the Year, Ohio Valley Medical Center
• Co-author of several medical abstracts and presentations