November 29 at 10:15am (Lisbon Time)
Chair: Mariana Monteiro
Title: "Mapping the progression to heart failure to study disease mechanisms and heterogeneity"
Amil M. Shah, MD MPH is a Professor of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, where is a faculty member in the Division of Cardiology. He serves as the Director of Population Sciences for the Department of Internal Medicine and holds the Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiac Research and the Hoffman Family Center in Genetics and Epidemiology endowment. He is Principal Investigator of the Dallas Hearts and Minds Study. His clinical interests include cardiac imaging and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Shah earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Brown University in Providence, RI, his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and his Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency in internal medicine at The Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and fellowships in an advanced echocardiography and clinical research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Drs Scott Solomon and Marc Pfeffer. He was subsequently on the faculty of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School for 14 years, most recently as an Associate Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Shah’s research interests focus on understanding the development of heart failure in at-risk populations, with a particularly emphasis on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. His clinical and translational research program employs cardiovascular imaging and high dimensional ‘-omics’ data in epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, and hospital-based exercise studies. His research has received over $25 million in grant funding, and is currently PI of six R01 grants and a K24 mid-career mentoring grant. He has published over 250 original research articles, editorials, and book chapters. He has given numerous lectures related to his areas of expertise nationally and internationally.
Dr Shah is active in several professional societies. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Heart Failure Society of America. He is also a member of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Chair: Mariana Monteiro
Title: "Mapping the progression to heart failure to study disease mechanisms and heterogeneity"
