Tilak Shah MD

Dr. Shah will lead the multidisciplinary Pancreas Center at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital as Medical Director and staff specialist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, a division of the Ellen Leifer Shulman & Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center.

Before joining Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital, Dr. Shah was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Health Science Center, as well as Director of Endoscopy and Interventional Endoscopy at the Central Virginia VA Health Care System in Richmond, VA. He served as Associate GI Fellowship Program Director at VCU and was a member of the Development and Therapeutics section at VCU Massey Cancer Center.

Dr. Shah graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001, and UNC School of Medicine in 2006. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship training in gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Shah also obtained a master’s degree in clinical research from the Duke-NIH Clinical Research Training Program. He completed fellowship training in pancreaticobiliary and interventional endoscopy at Emory University Medical Center. Within the Veterans Affairs Health System, Dr. Shah established the first pancreas cyst ablation program, the first third space endoscopy program, and one of the first endo bariatric programs in the United States.

He has served on the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Veterans Administration Committees. Dr. Shah has also served as a reviewer for several journals including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, World Journal of Gastroenterology, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. He is also an associate editor for the American Journal of Gastroenterology, and a section editor for Current Opinion in Gastroenterology.

Dr. Shah’s clinical and research interests include pancreatic disorders and endoscopic approaches to diagnose and treat esophageal neoplasia, including advanced imaging, artificial intelligence, endoscopic resection, and cryotherapy. He was the recipient of research awards from the ASGE and McGuire Research Institute and was a site investigator for VA Co-Operative and Merit studies.

Dr. Shah has been featured as an author on over 50 original research papers, and has authored two board preparation textbooks, “NMS Medicine Casebook,” and “Acing the PancreaticobiliaryQuestions on the GI Boards.”