Prediman K. Shah MD

Professor, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series Prediman K. (PK) Shah, MD is Director of the Division of Cardiology. He also is the Director of the Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he leads several studies that focus on heart disease prevention and treatment. Dr. Shah holds the Shapell and Webb Family Chair in Clinical Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Shah has been Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 1992. In the early 1990s, he worked in the cardiovascular research laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital of the Harvard Medical School in Boston. At that time, the laboratory was under the leadership of Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD. He devotes 60 percent of his professional hours to patient care and the balance of his time among research, administrative, and teaching responsibilities.