Department of Pediatrics

Education

• MD, University of Jordan, 2010

Training

• Internship, Istiklal Hospital, 2010 - 2011
• Residency, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, 2013 - 2016
• Fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, 2016 - 2019
• Fellowship, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2019

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2016 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics

Honors and Awards

• Healing Without A Harm Award, 2013
• Wolf W. Zuelzer Fellowship Research, 2019

Recent Publications view all (4)

1. Wang T, Shatara M, Liu F, Knight T, Edwards H, Wang G, Lin H, Wang Y, Taub JW, Ge Y. Simultaneous cotargeting of ATR and RNA Polymerase I transcription demonstrates synergistic antileukemic effects on acute myeloid leukemia. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2019;4:44. PMCID:PMC6823485  PMID:31700693 
2. Shatara M, Xavier AC, Dombkowski A, Cukovic D, Poulik JM, Altinok D, Ge Y, Taub JW. Monozygotic twins with neuroblastoma MS have a similar molecular profile: a case of twin-to-twin metastasis. Br J Cancer. 2019;121(10):890-893. PMCID:PMC6889264  PMID:31601961 
3. Shatara M, Regling K, Sabo C, Figueroa M, Taub JW, Rajpurkar M. Ethosuximide-induced Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019;41(5):420-421. PMID:30212418 
4. Knight T, Shatara M, Carvalho L, Altinok D, Poulik J, Wang ZJ. Dramatic response to trametinib in a male child with neurofibromatosis type 1 and refractory astrocytoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2019;66(1):e27474. PMID:30251337