SilviShah University of Cincinnati, Ohio, United StatesUnited States

Silvi Shah, MD, MS, FASN, FAST, FACP, FNKF Silvi Shah, MD, MS, is a tenured associate professor and an NIH-funded physician-scientist in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Shah completed her general nephrology fellowship from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, a transplant nephrology fellowship at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and a master's in clinical and translation research from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Shah's research focuses on women’s health, including pregnancy, sex disparities, health equity, and cardiovascular health with kidney disease. She is a recipient of the K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Shah has led groundbreaking work that identified a high pregnancy incidence in women with kidney failure undergoing dialysis and a higher risk of cardiovascular events in women with kidney failure. Dr. Shah has authored over 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts. She is an associate editor for Advances in Kidney Disease and Health journal and serves on the editorial board of JASN, CJASN, and Kidney 360 journals. Dr. Shah is chair of the American Heart Association’s “Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease” Scientific and Clinical Education Lifelong Learning committee and leads the American Society of Nephrology’s “Women’s Health and Research in Nephrology” community. She has served as the executive member of the American Society of Transplantation’s “Women’s Health Community of Practice” and as the councilor in the Women in Nephrology.