Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH, is Senior Scholar at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. He is a distinguished healthcare leader with experience as a practicing physician, innovator, operator, and regulator. He is a leader in care innovation for older adults, digital health, patient safety and quality, and the strategies required to transition to high value, patient-centered care. His research focus areas include improving care for family caregivers, bringing healthcare to senior housing, and helping older adults remain independent.
At Stanford, Dr. Shah teaches and conducts research on driving adoption of digital technologies and generative AI, improving healthcare quality and safety while lowering cost, and quantitatively evaluating the resulting value for US and international health care systems.
Dr. Shah is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Medicine. Previously, he has served as Commissioner of Health for New York State, and as Chief Operating Officer for Clinical Operations at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California.
Dr. Shah is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a recipient of the American College of Physicians’ Laureate award, the Citizens Budget Commission’s Prize for Public Service Innovation, the HHS Health Data Consortium’s Inaugural Data Liberation award, and Yale School of Public Health’s Distinguished Alumni award. In 2020 he was recognized as one of the 100 US leaders most responsible for “re-imagining and re-humanizing our care system” among the ‘Care 100.’ His work is routinely published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and has been featured in BBC World News, New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.
Dr. Shah serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Chair of the Policy Committee of the Coalition for Health AI, as an independent director for STERIS plc [NYSE:STE], and as a trustee of the John A. Hartford Foundation. His federal service includes membership in the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, past service on the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee (Healthy People 2030), current service on the Advisory Committee for the Director of the CDC, and various committees of the National Academy of Medicine.