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Dr. Nigam Shah is associate professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University, Assistant Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, and a core member of the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program. 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.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research
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Associate Professor, Biomedical Data Science
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Member, Bio-X
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Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
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Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Administrative Appointments
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Co-director - Informatics, Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Research, and Education (Spectrum) (2017 - Present)
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Assistant Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Research (BMIR) (2013 - Present)
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Member, Cancer Institute Informatics Steering Committee (2011 - Present)
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Scientific Program Chair, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (2011 - 2012)
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Advisory Committee Member, Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics (2011 - 2012)
Honors & Awards
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Outstanding paper award, Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2008)
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Outstanding paper award, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2009)
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Distinguished paper award, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2011)
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Biosciences Faculty Award recognizing outstanding teaching contributions, Stanford School of Medicine (June 2012)
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Ramoni Best paper award, AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (March 2013)
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New Investigator Award, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) (November 2013)
Professional Education
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Postdoctoral, Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics (2007)
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PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, Molecular Medicine (2005)
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MBBS, Baroda Medical College, Medicine (1999)