Neel Shah
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Neel Shah (born February 23, 1982) is an American physician, Harvard University assistant professor, Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, and founder of the nonprofit organizations Costs of Care and March for Moms. Shah is married to MIT Professor Julie Shah.{{cite news|last1=Graham|first1=Jordan|title=Team Eyes Improving Machines in Hospitals|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/shah|publisher=Harvard University|date=October 5, 2014|accessdate=October 26, 2020}}
Early life and education
Shah spent his childhood in Hyde Park, NY and New Jersey where he attended High Technology High School with his future wife Julie Shah.{{cite web |title=What Happens to the Marriage When Both People Conquer the Corner Office? |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/12/19/power-couples-boston/ |website=Boston City Life |date=19 December 2018 |accessdate=October 29, 2020}} He graduated from Brown University, for his bachelors and medical degrees, and Harvard University for his Master of Public Policy degree. He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. As an undergraduate, his mentor was Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon Cooper, who he credits with teaching him to be an "audacious thinker" about complex systems.{{cite web |title=Harvard Medical School Professor Advances Healthcare Innovation|url=https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/welcome-ad?toURL=/clinical-care/harvard-medical-school-professor-advances-healthcare-innovation|website=Health Leaders|accessdate=November 14, 2020}} Following residency, he joined his mentor Atul Gawande as core faculty at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation between Brigham & Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.{{cite news |title=Atul Gawande named to head cost-cutting health-care venture from Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/20/atul-gawande-named-to-head-cost-cutting-health-care-venture-from-amazon-berkshire-hathaway-and-jpmorgan-chase/|newspaper=The Washington Post |accessdate=November 14, 2020}} He is also an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.{{Cite web|title=Neel T. Shah, MD - Beth Israel Deaconess|url=https://findadoc.bidmc.org/details/1407/neel-shah-obstetrics__gynecology-boston|access-date=2021-06-21|website=findadoc.bidmc.org}} In 2016, he and his wife Julie were appointed as the Heads of House of the Sidney Pacific graduate community at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{cite web |title=Julie Shah, Sandy Alexandre receive campus houseteam appointments|url=https://news.mit.edu/2016/julie-shah-sandy-alexandre-receive-houseteam-appointments-0526|website=MIT News |accessdate=November 14, 2020}}
Scholarship
Dr. Shah's research focuses on improving maternal health. He founded the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Harvard University's Ariadne Labs to develop solutions to the challenges mothers face during childbirth. He is senior author of the textbook Understanding Value-Based Healthcare{{cite web |title=Understanding Value-Based Healthcare|url=https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookID=1371| publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical | accessdate=October 26, 2020}} and created a framework to ensure value-based healthcare values Black lives.{{cite journal |title=Value-Based Health Care Must Value Black Lives|url=https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20200831.419320/full/ | publisher=Health Affairs | date=September 3, 2020 |doi=10.1377/forefront.20200831.419320 |url-access=subscription }}
In 2019, he moderated an event at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on bias in medicine.{{cite web |title=Black Maternal Mortality: Clinical Instinct Vs Racism|url=https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/acog/79629 |publisher= Medpage Today | date=May 5, 2019 | accessdate=October 26, 2020}} He has explained how these biases impact mortality rates among Black and Native mothers to the American public through news reports{{cite web |title=Dying to deliver: The race to prevent sudden death of new mothers |url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/dying-deliver-race-prevent-sudden-death-mothers-55015361|publisher=GMA | date=May 16, 2018 | accessdate=October 26, 2020}} and the Fox television show, "The Resident." According to Dr. Shah, American women today are 50 percent more likely to die in childbirth compared to their own mothers.{{cite web |title=Heartbreaking story tied to maternal health crisis hits prime time|url=https://www.ariadnelabs.org/resources/articles/news/maternal-health-crisis-underscored-on-episode-of-the-resident/| publisher=Ariadne Labs | accessdate=November 10, 2020}} Dr. Shah has also shown that use of Cesarean sections have increased by 500% in the last generation, and is a national leader in investigating and addressing the causes.{{cite web |title=The Data Detective: One Doctor's Quest To Fix Cesarean Sections|url=https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/the-c-section-detective-dr-neel-shah-tries-to-solve-a-growing-problem| publisher=Great Big Story | accessdate=November 10, 2020}}
Dr. Shah has demonstrated that hospital management{{cite web |title=Hospital management practices may put women at risk for C-sections, complications during childbirth|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/hospital-management-practices-cesareans/| publisher=Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | date=July 11, 2017 | accessdate=November 14, 2020}} and even hospital architecture{{cite web |title=American hospitals with fewer unnecessary C-sections have one thing in common: better design|url=https://qz.com/848579/better-hospital-design-lowers-the-rate-of-unnecessary-c-sections/| publisher=Quartz | date=March 21, 2017 | accessdate=November 14, 2020}} can influence Cesarean section rates, and he has developed systems{{cite web |title=One Hospital's Plan to Reduce C-sections: Communicate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/opinion/hospital-cesarean-section.html| work=The New York Times | date=June 5, 2019 | accessdate=November 14, 2020}} to ensure c-sections are only performed when necessary. Shah has collaborated with his wife Julie to harness artificial intelligence to improve public health, including developing robotic assistants for labor and delivery nurses and approaches to control the spread of the novel coronavirus.{{cite journal |title=Fighting Coronavirus with Big Data|url=https://hbr.org/2020/04/fighting-coronavirus-with-big-data| journal=Harvard Business Review | date=April 6, 2020 | accessdate=November 14, 2020|last1=Shah|first1=Julie|last2=Shah|first2=Neel}}
Shah proposed an ethical framework for medicine that includes financial harm to patients under the "do no harm" principle of medical ethics.{{cite magazine|last1=Shah|first1=Neel|last2=Rhee|first2=Michele|title=Birth of a Nonprofit|url=https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fall2012.pdf|magazine=Brown Medicine|publisher=Brown University|date=2012|volume=18|number=3|page=27|accessdate=October 26, 2020}} He participated in a project aiming to collect essays about instances in which inattention to costs has harmed patients — emulating the patient-safety movement's use of anecdotes about sponges left in abdomens or amputations of the wrong limb.{{cite news|last=Rovner|first=Julie|title=Stories Of Health Care Horrors Produce Happy Endings For A Few|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/12/28/132401045/stories-of-health-care-horrors-produce-happy-endings-for-a-few|newspaper=National Public Radio|date=December 28, 2010|accessdate=October 26, 2020}}
Nonprofit
Dr. Shah founded the nonprofit Costs of Care in 2009 dedicated to providing better healthcare at lower cost.{{cite web |title=Harvard Medical School Professor Advances Healthcare Innovation|url=https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/clinical-care/harvard-medical-school-professor-advances-healthcare-innovation | publisher=Health Leaders Media|date=February 12, 2020 | accessdate=October 26, 2020}} He also founded the nonprofit March for Moms to advance Federal legislation that ensures people can grow their families with dignity.{{cite web |title=Changemaker: Neel Shah, maternal health care reform advocate|url=https://thescopeboston.org/2465/q-a-changemakers/changemaker-neel-shah/|publisher=The Scope Boston|date=November 7, 2019 | accessdate=October 26, 2020}} He has been vocal about the dangers of being pregnant and uninsured,{{cite web |title=Changemaker: The extraordinary danger of being pregnant and uninsured in Texas|url=https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/6/20995227/women-health-care-maternal-mortality-insurance-texas|publisher=Vox|date=December 19, 2019 | accessdate=October 26, 2020}} and the need to make American health care more affordable in order to address the maternal mortality crisis. He has described the "animating impulse" of both nonprofits as the need for dignity and not just safety in health care.{{cite web |title=In Conversation With… Neel Shah, MD, MPP|url=https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-neel-shah-md-mpp|publisher=PS Net|date=December 19, 2019 | accessdate=November 14, 2020}}
Shah was featured in a "Doctor and Patient" New York Times column by Pauline Chen for creating the Teaching Value Project, aimed at educating doctors about how their decisions impact what patients pay for care.{{cite news|last=Chen|first=Pauline|title=Getting Doctors to Think About Costs|url=http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/getting-doctors-to-think-about-costs|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 15, 2012|accessdate=October 12, 2020}} In 2014, Shah was named one of the "40 smartest people in healthcare" by Becker's Hospital Review.{{cite news|last1=Adamopoulos|first1=Helen|title=40 of the Smartest People in Healthcare|url=http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/40-of-the-smartest-people-in-healthcare.html|publisher=Becker's Hospital Review|date=March 4, 2014|accessdate=October 26, 2020}}
Maven Clinic
In July 2021, Shah was hired by NY City-based telehealth company Maven Clinic as its first Chief Medical Officer. The company offers a virtual care platform for maternal and family health.
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