Sachin Shah, MD, MPH

ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR

I am an internist and clinical epidemiologist whose scholarship aims to improve the care of older, vulnerable adults. My research goals are to:

1. Individualize treatment decisions for older adults facing high stakes therapeutic decisions by studying atrial fibrillation in older adults as a model condition
2. Measure vulnerability and describe the settings in which vulnerability results in poor health outcomes
3. Build evaluation into the design of population health interventions

To accomplish this, I work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, statisticians, informaticists, economists, and epidemiologists. We use descriptive methods, causal inference tools, and randomized trials to advance these goals.
Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2017 - Masters in Public Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2017 - General Medicine and Population Health Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
2015 - Medicine Chief Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
2014 - Medicine Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
2011 - MD, Yale University School of Medicine
2005 - ScB, Brown University
Honors and Awards
  • Junior Investigator Recognition Award (most outstanding article by junior faculty), Annals of Internal Medicine and American College of Physicians, 2018
  • Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association Council on Quality and Outcomes Research, 2017
  • Ferris Prize for Outstanding Thesis, Yale University, 2011
  • Farr Scholar (excellence in research), Yale University, 2009
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 2005
Publications

  1. Harrison JD, Sudore RL, Auerbach AD, Shah S, Oreper S, Wheeler MM, Fang MC. Automated telephone follow-up programs after hospital discharge: Do older adults engage with these programs? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022. PMID: 35767470


  2. Shah SJ, Covinsky KE. Follow-up Duration and Gender Differences in a Study of Older Adults Living Alone-Reply. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID: 35254382


  3. Shah SJ, Essien UR. Equitable Representation in Clinical Trials: Looking Beyond Table 1. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID: 35418248


  4. Parks AL, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA, Smith AK, Covinsky KE, Fang MC, Shah SJ. Long-term functional outcomes and mortality after hospitalization for extracranial hemorrhage. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID: 35535921


  5. Sachin J Shah, Kenneth E Covinsky. Do Anticoagulants Preserve Function and Quality of Life in Older Adults with Atrial Fibrillation? (in press) "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID:


  6. Shah SJ, Fang MC, Wannier SR, Steinman MA, Covinsky KE. Association of Social Support With Functional Outcomes in Older Adults Who Live Alone. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2021. PMID: 34779818


  7. Malevanchik L, Wheeler M, Gagliardi K, Karliner L, Shah SJ. Disparities After Discharge: The Association of Limited English Proficiency and Postdischarge Patient-Reported Issues. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021. PMID: 34627715


  8. Wray CM, Tang J, Shah S, Nguyen OK, Keyhani S. Sociodemographics, Social Vulnerabilities, and Health Factors Associated with Telemedicine Unreadiness Among US Adults. Journal of general internal medicine 2021. PMID: 34331214


  9. Parks AL, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA, Smith AK, Fang MC, Shah SJ. Long-term individual and population functional outcomes in older adults with atrial fibrillation. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021. PMID: 33675093


  10. Iverson NR, Lau CY, Abe-Jones Y, Fang MC, Kangelaris KN, Prasad P, Shah SJ, Najafi N. Evaluation of a novel metric for personalized opioid prescribing after hospitalization. PloS one 2020. PMID: 33382802


  11. Mick E, Kamm J, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Babik JM, Castañeda G, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Hao SL, Kangelaris KN, Kumar GR, Li LM, Mann SA, Neff N, Prasad PA, Serpa PH, Shah SJ, Spottiswoode N, Tan M, Calfee CS, Christenson SA, Kistler A, Langelier C. Upper airway gene expression reveals suppressed immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 compared with other respiratory viruses. Nature communications 2020. PMID: 33203890


  12. Makam AN, Nguyen OK, Miller ME, Shah SJ, Kapinos KA, Halm EA. Comparative effectiveness of long-term acute care hospital versus skilled nursing facility transfer. BMC health services research 2020. PMID: 33176767


  13. Shah SJ, Fang MC, Jeon SY, Gregorich SE, Covinsky KE. Geriatric Syndromes and Atrial Fibrillation: Prevalence and Association with Anticoagulant Use in a National Cohort of Older Americans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020. PMID: 32989731


  14. Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler A, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babik JM, Fang MC, Kangelaris KN, Langelier C, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Castaneda G. Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: A retrospective cohort study of patients with and without COVID-19. EClinicalMedicine 2020. PMID: 32864588


  15. Shah SJ, Singer DE, Fang MC, Reynolds K, Go AS, Eckman MH. Net Clinical Benefit of Oral Anticoagulation Among Older Adults With Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2019. PMID: 31707823


  16. Shah SJ, Eckman MH. Restarting Anticoagulants after a Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage-Between Rockall and a Hard Place. Journal of hospital medicine 2019. PMID: 31251722


  17. Shah SJ, Singer DE. Stroke Rate Variation and Anticoagulation Benefit in Atrial Fibrillation. Annals of internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31158861


  18. Oseran AS, Lage DE, Jernigan MC, Metlay JP, Shah SJ. A "Hospital-Day-1" Model to Predict the Risk of Discharge to a Skilled Nursing Facility. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2019. PMID: 31133235


  19. Shah SJ, Schwamm LH, Cohen AB, Simoni MR, Estrada J, Matiello M, Venkataramani A, Rao SK. Virtual Visits Partially Replaced In-Person Visits In An ACO-Based Medical Specialty Practice. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018. PMID: 30633681


  20. Shah SJ, Eckman MH, Aspberg S, Go AS, Singer DE. Effect of Variation in Published Stroke Rates on the Net Clinical Benefit of Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation. Annals of internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30264130


  21. Lage DE, Jernigan MC, Chang Y, Grabowski DC, Hsu J, Metlay JP, Shah SJ. Living Alone and Discharge to Skilled Nursing Facility Care after Hospitalization in Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017. PMID: 29072783


  22. Venkataramani AS, Shah SJ, O'Brien R, Kawachi I, Tsai AC. Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study. The Lancet. Public health 2017. PMID: 29253449


  23. Shah SJ, Cronin P, Hong CS, Hwang AS, Ashburner JM, Bearnot BI, Richardson CA, Fosburgh BW, Kimball AB. Targeted Reminder Phone Calls to Patients at High Risk of No-Show for Primary Care Appointment: A Randomized Trial. Journal of general internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27503436


  24. Hwang AS, Atlas SJ, Cronin P, Ashburner JM, Shah SJ, He W, Hong CS. Appointment "no-shows" are an independent predictor of subsequent quality of care and resource utilization outcomes. Journal of general internal medicine 2015. PMID: 25776581


  25. Ben-Josef G, Ott LS, Spivack SB, Wang C, Ross JS, Shah SJ, Curtis JP, Kim N, Krumholz HM, Bernheim SM. Payments for acute myocardial infarction episodes-of-care initiated at hospitals with and without interventional capabilities. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2014. PMID: 25387777


  26. Shah SJ, Krumholz HM, Reid KJ, Rathore SS, Mandawat A, Spertus JA, Ross JS. Financial stress and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction. PloS one 2012. PMID: 23112814


  27. Kulkarni VT, Shah SJ, Bernheim SM, Wang Y, Normand SL, Han LF, Rapp MT, Drye EE, Krumholz HM. Regional associations between Medicare Advantage penetration and administrative claims-based measures of hospital outcomes. Medical care 2012. PMID: 22456113