Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor, Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research
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Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 725-6236Alternate Contact Natasha Haulman Administrative Associate Email Tel Work (650) 725-3279
Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Advisory Board Member, Medicine X (2011 - 2012)
- Advisory Committee Member, Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics (2011 - 2012)
- Scientific Program Chair, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (2011 - 2012)
Honors and Awards
- Biosciences Faculty Award recognizing outstanding teaching contributions, Stanford School of Medicine (June 2012)
- Distinguished paper award, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2011)
- Outstanding paper award, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2009)
- Outstanding paper award, Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2008)
Professional Education
| Postdoctoral: | Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics (2007) |
| PhD: | The Pennsylvania State University, Molecular Medicine (2005) |
| MBBS: | Baroda Medical College, Medicine (1999) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Industry Relationships
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
My research group studies ontology-based approaches to annotate, index, integrate and analyze unstructured information available in biomedicine for the purpose of enabling data-driven analytics in medicine and health care.
Publications
- Performance of pharmacovigilance signal-detection algorithms for the FDA adverse event reporting system. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2013; (6): 539-46
- Pharmacovigilance using clinical notes. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2013; (6): 547-55
- Practice-based evidence: profiling the safety of cilostazol by text-mining of clinical notes. PLoS One. 2013; (5): e63499
- Response to "Logistic regression in signal detection: another piece added to the puzzle" Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2013
- The National Center for Biomedical Ontology. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012 Mar-Apr; (2): 190-5
- Analyzing patterns of drug use in clinical notes for patient safety. AMIA Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2012: 63-70
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