Tushar A. Shah, MD

Dr. Shah is a physician-scientist with a passion for evidence-based medicine, hypothesis-driven research, and teaching. He holds faculty appointments in the divisions of pediatrics, microbiology and molecular cell biology and is an adjunct faculty member in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. As an independent investigator, Dr. Shah’s lab specializes in complement biology, and has been funded by the NIH, Virginia Catalyst and Commonwealth Health Research Board. His lab focuses on understanding the role of inflammation in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), with the goal of developing new therapeutic strategies.