The Team
Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor, Clinical Trial Design and Analysis
Dr. Shah's expertise includes meta-analysis, medical informatics, and understanding bias in randomized trials and observational studies. His professional experience includes designing and managing projects within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors in a consulting capacity as well as four years with Harvard's Technology Assessment Group. He has served on three national advisory committees for the American College of Physicians and is an adjunct lecturer to students at two medical schools in New York. He is widely published in journals including JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Annals of Internal Medicine, and is the Principal Investigator of two NIH grants.
Dr. Shah is an honors graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Medicine. He received his MPH with distinction from Yale, concentrating in the Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. Subsequently, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in Health Services and Outcomes Research at UCLA in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Shah is Board Certified and currently part-time practicing in Internal Medicine with medical licenses in New York and California. In addition to his role at LifeTech, he is completing a PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA on the topic "Methodologic quality predictors of observational studies" in consultation with experts at RAND (Santa Monica).