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Manish A. Shah

Manish A. Shah MD

Oncology
New York, New York, United States of America

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Dr. Manish A. Shah completed his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University in 1991, going on to receive his Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School/MIT Health Sciences and Technology program in 1996, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at Duke University Medical Center in 1999, and his Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2001, where he served as Chief Oncology Fellow. Dr. Shah was recruited from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in order to serve as Director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program within the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and the Center for Advanced Digestive Care at Weill Cornell Medical College/ NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Shah is the recipient of several awards including the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Young Investigator and Career Development Awards, as well as the Journal for Surgical Oncology’s Donald L. Morton Award. Most recently, Dr. Shah was the recipient of the Bartlett Family Associate Professor for Gastrointestinal Oncology award. Dr. Shah is a distinguished peer-review funded investigator and has led several Phase I, II and III clinical trials in GI malignancies. His areas of translational research interests focus on improving the understanding of upper GI cancers, hereditary GI malignancies, genomic evaluations of malignancy, and the effects of the external environment on the genetic causes of malignancy.
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