RAJ C. SHAH, MD

PaTH Role: RUSH Site Principal Investigator

Institution

RUSH

Profile

Raj C. Shah, MD, is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the RUSH Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Rush Medical College. Shah completed his bachelor of science in chemical engineering at Northwestern University and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. After completing a family practice residency at West Suburban Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois, he received further training in geriatrics at Rush University. He is board-certified in family medicine with a certificate of added qualification in geriatrics.

Shah’s academic career interest is the design and conduct of clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of age-related conditions in diverse communities including, but not limited to, memory loss and disability-free survival.

He is a principal investigator for clinical trials and other research studies in aging. He also provides or has provided support for longitudinal research and infrastructure projects on memory and aging at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

In addition to being the RUSH site principal investigator to the PaTH Network, Shah is also the RUSH site principal investigator for the Chicago Area Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network, a consortium of regional academic health systems and other partners working to develop, test and implement strategies to improve care for diverse residents in the Chicago region to improve health care quality, health outcomes and health equity. He is the Rush site principal investigator for the All of Us Research Program of the NIH’s Precision Medicine Initiative. He is the Associate Director of the Network Capacity Cluster for the Institute for Translational Medicine, a Clinical Translational Science Award program led by The University of Chicago and RUSH. Shah currently is the co-Director of the Center for Community Health Equity, an initiative jointly led by RUSH University and DePaul University designed to reduce hardship and improve health outcomes in Chicago. He also mentors students interested in the health sciences at the high school, college, graduate and post-graduate levels.

Roles(s)

• Co-Director, Center for Community Health Equity
• Geriatrician, RUSH Alzheimer’s Disease Center
• RUSH site PI, PaTH Clinical Research Network

Education

MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago