Shamita Shah, MD
Biography
Dr. Shamita Shah is a board-certified gastroenterologist at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, LA. She received her medical degree at LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans. After finishing her general gastroenterology fellowship at Ochsner, she completed an advanced training program in inflammatory bowel disease at the University of Chicago. She returned to Ochsner in 2015 as is Section Head of Inflammatory Bowel Diseasea after spending seven years in the San Francisco Bay area, where she directed the IBD program at Stanford University. Since 2015 she has built a premiere IBD program in the gulf south and has published several articles in high level peer reviewed journals. She continues to engage in research with a special interest in IBD and co-existing immune mediated conditions such as PSC and ways to treat IBD with novel treatments.
