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Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD

Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and of Biomedical Data Science
Postdoctoral, Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics (2007)
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, Molecular Medicine (2005)
MBBS, Baroda Medical College, Medicine (1999)
Phone: 
(650) 725-6236
Dr. Nigam Shah is Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University, Associate CIO for Data Science at Stanford Healthcare, and a member of the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program as well as the Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Dr. Shah's research focuses on combining machine learning and prior knowledge in medical ontologies to enable use cases of the learning health system.

Dr. Shah received the AMIA New Investigator Award for 2013 and the Stanford Biosciences Faculty Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in his graduate class on “Data driven medicine”. Dr. Shah was elected into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 2015 and is inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2016. He holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University.