Vijay H. Shah MD, FAASLD

Vijay H. Shah, M.D., is recognized as the Carol M. Gatton Professor of Digestive Diseases Research, Honoring Peter Carryer, M.D., and a Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator, and currently serves as the Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Kinney Executive Dean of Research. Dr. Shah received his undergraduate, medical, and clinical medicine training at Northwestern University. He obtained advanced clinical and research postdoctoral fellowship training in hepatology and liver disease at Yale University. He has maintained an NIH-funded program at Mayo Clinic for 25 years, which focuses broadly on alcohol-related liver disease, cirrhosis, and portal hypertension and its complications. His basic, translational, and clinical work leans heavily on Big Data analytics.

From his research, he has published more than 350 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the New England Journal of Medicine, and others. Dr. Shah is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians. In his leisure time, Dr. Shah likes to ski, play guitar, kayak, exercise, and spend time with his wife, two daughters, and his Labrador Retriever.