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Samir S. Shah, M.D., M.S.C.E.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
shahs@email.chop.edu

Samir S. Shah, M.D., M.S.C.E. is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  Dr. Shah is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., Biology) and the Yale University School of Medicine.  He completed a residency in Pediatrics as well as fellowships in both Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Academic General Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  He also received a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Shah’s research focuses on improving clinical outcomes of children with common childhood infections. Dr. Shah’s previous work includes studies of bacterial and viral meningitis.  He has also examined changes in the epidemiology of bacterial infections following changes in national vaccine policy. His current work focuses on community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), the most common serious bacterial infection of childhood. Dr. Shah’s Physician Faculty Scholars Program project, entitled “Predicting Adverse Outcomes in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia,” will improve outpatient management decisions and clinical outcomes in children with CAP. He is using an established practice-based research network to develop accurate and objective models of prognosis for children with CAP.  These predictive models will be incorporated into an electronic health record-based clinical decision support intervention to facilitate the early identification and appropriate referral of high-risk children.  The decision support tools developed as part of this study will be exportable to other electronic health record systems to permit external validation and dissemination of advances in the management of childhood pneumonia.

Dr. Shah is editor or co-editor of 6 books in the fields of pediatrics and infectious diseases including The Philadelphia Guide: Inpatient Pediatrics (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005), Pediatric Infectious Diseases: The Requisites in Pediatrics (Mosby, 2008), and Pediatric Practice: Infectious Diseases (McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008).

Dr. Shah is a recipient of a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  He has also received grant support from the McCabe Foundation, the Center for AIDS Research, and the University Research Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania. 

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