[6] Beginning in 2013, Shamji worked as a physician with Indigenous populations in rural and remote communities in Northern Ontario, the Northwest Territories and the Canadian Arctic.

In the fall of 2022, Shamji released Ontario Health reports on emergency room system performance to the public on a monthly basis.

[15][16] In a January 2023 article, Radio-Canada wrote the following (translated from French): “It didn't take long for the new MPP for Don Valley East to get comfortable in Queen's Park.

[18] The bill came as Ontario deals with a severe shortage of healthcare staff, which in turn leads to increased wait times for hospital care.

Shamji told CBC News:[19]"What I'm proposing with this bill is to take aim at some of the most outrageous, some of the most predatory hiring and recruitment practices that are employed by these temporary, for-profit nursing agencies.

[1] Shamji was once granted a Polar bear skull by the community of an Indigenous Elder, after resuscitating her and saving her life.