Shehara is a medical oncologist and clinical researcher with current appointments at Western Health, Cabrini Health and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI).
She obtained a Master of Cancer Sciences whilst undertaking a clinical and research fellowship specialising in cancers of the gastrointestinal tract at BC Cancer in Vancouver, Canada. She is involved in the full spectrum of clinical trials, from early phase to investigator-initiated and registry-based clinical trials.