Vijay H. Shah, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Dr. Shah serves as the Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Kinney Executive Dean of Research Honoring Ronald F. Kinney, Jr. and the Carol M. Gatton Professor of Digestive Diseases Research, Honoring Peter Carryer, M.D. at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. He has been on staff at Mayo Clinic for 25 years and previously served as Chairs of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Department of Medicine. Dr. Shah has maintained an NIH-funded research program at Mayo Clinic for almost 25 years which focuses broadly on alcohol related liver disease, cirrhosis, portal hypertension and its complications with over 300 peer review publications in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature, Proceedings of National Academy of Science, New England Journal of Medicine and others. His research spans from laboratory-based studies to clinical trials to informatics; the program's achievements are recognized by his title as Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator. He has lectured widely both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Shah maintains an active clinical practice focused in hepatology.

Outside of Mayo Clinic Dr. Shah has served on the Governing Board of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, Council for the American Gastroenterologic Association, and National Advisory Council for National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He has served as Associate Editor for multiple peer review academic journals including Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, and American Journal of Gastroenterology. Dr. Shah is a member of the prestigious American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and Association of American Physicians (AAP).

Dr. Shah received his undergraduate, medical, and clinical medicine training at Northwestern University. He obtained advanced clinical and research postdoctoral fellowship training in hepatology and liver disease at Yale University.

In his leisure time, Dr. Shah likes to ski, play guitar, kayak, exercise, and spend time with his wife, two daughters, and his Labrador retriever.