Md Amer Wahed, MD., FRCPath

Areas of Interests

Clinical Interests

Research Interests

Research Information

Dr Wahed is actively engaged in translational research in the areas of his clinical interests, hematopathology, coagulation and immunology. Special areas of interest of his include serum protein electrophoresis and hemoglobin analysis.

Publications

Publication Information

1.    Wahed A, Dasgupta A. Positive and Negative in Vitro Interference of Chinese Medicine Danshen in serum Digoxin Measurement: Elimination of Interference by Monitoring Free Digoxin Concentration; American J of Clin Pathol; 116(3):403-8., September 2001

2.    Dasgupta A, Wahed A, Wells A:Rapid spot tests for detecting the presence of adulterants in urine specimens submitted for drug testing; Am J of Clin Pathol; February; vol 117, No 2:325-9, 2002

3.    Dasgupta A, Wahed A, Culton L,Olsen M, Wells A, Actor JK. Activated charcoal is more effective than equilibrium dialysis in removing Chinese medicines Chan Su and Danshen from serum and activated charcoal also prevents further absorption of these agents from GIT in mice: monitoring the effect in clinical laboratory by measuring digoxin activity in serum: Clin Chim Acta, Oct, 324(1-2): 51-9, 2002

4.    Saffer H, Wahed A, Medeiros JL. Clusterin expression in malignant lymphomas: a survey of 266 cases; Mod Pathol, Nov 15(11):1221-6, 2002.

5.    Wahed A, Connelly J, Reese T. E-Cadherin expression in pleomorphic lobular carcinoma; an aid to differentiation from ductal carcinoma: Ann Diagn Pathol, Dec; 6(6): 349-51, 2002

6.   Wahed A, Pollard J, Wells A, Dasgupta A. Impaired Protein Binding of Chinese Medicine Dan Shen in Uremic Sera and Sera with Hyperbilirubinemia: Rapid Assessment of Total And Free Dan Shen Concentrations Using the Flouresence Polarization Immunoassay for Digoxin.  J Clin Lab Anal; 17(5):179-83, 2003

7.   Scurlock D, Nguyen A, Wahed A. Pathologic quiz case: twin neonates with thrombocytopenia. May-Hegglin anomaly. Arch Pathol Lab Med, Apr;129 (4):e111-2, 2005

8.  Scurlock D, Ostler D, Nguyen A, Wahed A. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and dyserythropoiesis, Arch Pathol Lab . Med, May;129 (5):680-2, 2005

9.  Dasgupta A, Johnson M, Wahed A.The new LOCI digoxin assay on the Vista 1500 analyzer is virtually free from interferences of herbal supplements Hawthorn and Ashwagandha (Indian Ginseng). J Clin Lab Anal 26:227-231,2012

10.  Huang, R. S.P., Tholpady, A., Wahed, A., Chang, B. and Bai, Y. (2012), Therapeutic plasmapheresis and red blood cell exchange in a sickle cell trait patient with rhabdomyolysis. J. Clin. Apheresis, 27: 342–345. doi: 10.1002/jca.21247, 2012

11.  Bond M, Elguea C, Yan JS, Pawlowski M, Williams J, Wahed A, Oden M, Tkaczyk TS, Richards-Kortum R. Chromatography paper as a low-cost medium for accurate spectrophotometric assessment of blood hemoglobin concentration. Lab Chip,13, 2381-2388, 2013

12.  A Al-Ibraheemi A, Pham T, Chen L, Syklawer E, Quesada A, Wahed A, Nedelcu E, Nguyen AN. Comparison between 1-needle technique versus 2-needle technique for bone marrow aspiration and biopsy procedures. Arch Pathol Lab Med. Jul;137(7):974-8, 2013

13.  Huang R, Oleske D, Tholpady A, Chang B, Dasgupta A, Nguyen A, Wahed A.  High False Positive Rate For Monoclonal Gammopathy Using Capillary Electrophoresis (CAPILLARYS 2) Alone.  J Clin Lab Anal,Jan;28(1):42-6, 2014

14.  Huang R, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K, Gregoric I, Patel M, Kar B, Loyalka P, Nathan S, Loubser P, Weeks P, Radovancevic R, Nguyen A. Mobile Computing Platform with Decision-support Modules for Hemotherapy. Accepted for publication: American J of Clin Pathol,Jun;141 (6):834-40, 2014

15.  Welsh KJ, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K, Tint H, Gregoric I, Patel M, Kar B, Loyolka P, Nathan S, Loubser P, Weeks PA, Radovancevic R, Nguyen AN. How do we manage cardiopulmonary bypass coagulopathy? Transfusion, Sep;54 (9):2158-66, 2014.

16.  Oleske DA, Huang RS, Dasgupta A, Ngyen A, Wahed A. Higher sensitivity of capillary electrophoresis in detecting hemoglobin A2’ compared to traditional gel electrophoresis. Ann Clin Lab Sci;summer:44 (3):291-293,2014

17.  Huang RS, Dasgupta A, Nguyen AN, Wahed A. Inability to measure M protein with capillary zone electrophoresis (Cappillarys 2) in tracings with nondiscernable peaks. J Clin Lab Anal;Aug 17.doi:10.1002/jcla.21776, 2014

18.  Welsh KJ, Padilla A, Dasgupta A, Nguyen ND, and Wahed A. Thromboelastography is a suboptimal test for determination of the underlying cause of bleeding associated with cardiopulmonary bypass and may not predict a hypercoagulable state. American J of Clin Pathol, Oct;142 (4):492-7, 2014.

19.  Quesada AE, Jabcuga CE, Nguyen A, Wahed A, Nedelcu E, Nguyen AN. Interpretation of coagulation results using a web based reporting system. Lab Med Fall;45(4):347-60, 2014

20.  Nguyen TP, Biliciler S, Wahed A, Sheikh K. Occurrence of hemolytic anemia in patients with GBS treated with high dose IVIg. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm Dec11;1(4), 2014

21.  Chang B, Nguyen A, Dasgupta A, Wahed A, “Prevalence of Howell-Jolly Body Like Inclusions in HIV Patients and Their Correlation with CD4 Counts and HIV RNA Viral Load”; Ann Clin Lab Sci, Winter, 45 (1):23-6, 2015

22.  Huang RS, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K, Tint H, Gregoric I, Patel M, Kar B, Loyalka P, Nathan S, Radovancevic R, Nguyen AN. Post-operative bleeding risk stratification in cardiac pulmonary bypass patients using artificial neural network. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2015 Spring;45(2):181-6.

23.  Risin SA, Chang BN, Welsh KJ, Kidd LR, Moreno V, Chen L, Tholpady A, Wahed A, Nguyen N, Kott M, Hunter RL. Exploring New Ways to Deliver Value to Healthcare Organizations: Algorithmic Testing, Data Integration, and Diagnostic E-consult Service. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2015 May;45(3):239-47

24.  Everett JM, Kojima YA, Davis B, Wahed A, Dasgupta A. The iDigoxin Assay is More Sensitive than LOCI Digoxin Assay for Rapid Detection of Convallatoxin, the Active Cardiac Glycoside of Lily of The Valley. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2015 May;45(3):323-6

25.  Kerry J. Welsh, Amitava Dasgupta, Andy N. D. Nguyen, and Amer Wahed. Utility of VerifyNow for Point-of-Care Identification of an Aspirin Effect Prior to Emergency Cardiac Surgery. Ann Clin Lab Sci, vol 45, no4, 2015

26.  Castillo B, Chang B, Wahed A, Tholpady A. A rare case of acquired Fanconi syndrome with monoclonal gammopathy in an infant.  Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, Accepted for publication.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Nguyen, A. Wahed. Chapter 19, 305-313.Sources of errors in hematology and coagulation testing. In: Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory-A Guide to Error Detection and Correction, Editors: A. Dasgupta, J. Sepulveda. Elsevier, New York,2013

A Al-Ibraheemi, A Dasgupta, AWahed. Chapter 12, 177-191. Pitfalls in tumor markers testing. In: Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory-A Guide to Error Detection and Correction, Editors: A. Dasgupta, J. Sepulveda. Elsevier, New York, 2013

A Wahed, S Risin. Issues with Immunology and Serology testing. Chapter 18.295-303 In: Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory-A Guide to Error Detection and Correction, Editors: A. Dasgupta, J. Sepulveda. Elsevier, New York, 2013

 BOOKS

A Dasgupta and A Wahed. Clinical Chemistry, Immunology and Laboratory Quality Control Primer: A comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice. Elsevier, New York, 2014

A Wahed and A Dasgupta. Hematology and Coagulation: A comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice. Elsevier, New York, 2015

Additional Information

Licenses and Certificates

Diploma in Internal Medicine from the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, England, July 1993

American Board of Pathology (AP and CP), 2003

Current Professional Affiliations

American Society of Clinical Pathologists

College of American Pathologists

American Association of Clinical Chemistry

Honors and Awards

Placed first  in the Final Professional exams, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dhaka, 1988

Chancellors Gold medal, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1988

Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, USA, July 2001

Helen Chu Wagner Award, for outstanding performance in the field of Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas-Houston, 2003

Clinical Pathology, Clinical Pathology Faculty of the year, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2014-2015,2013-14, 2012-2013, 2011-2012.

Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, 2014-2015, 2013-14, 2012-2013, 2011-2012.