Samir H Shah
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, USA
Biography
Samir H Shah MD, MBA is a pediatric critical care physician and researcher. He is a clinical expert in managing patients in the pediatric and cardiac critical care units. His clinical research focuses on the philosophy that a patient’s outcome can be improved by using predictive modeling, creating appropriate trigger alerts and team education. Dr. Shah is the Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center / Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. He holds the position of Professor in the division of Pediatrics and he is the Fellowship Program Director of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UTHSC. Earlier, Dr. Shah was a faculty in Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Dr. Shah received his MD at Seth G. S. Medical College and completed his training in Pediatric Surgery at Grant Medical College in India. He completed his Pediatric Critical Care Medicine training at UCLA – Harbor, CA and a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / USC. Dr. Shah received his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member for journals related to Pediatric Critical Care.