Nishi Shah, MD | Montefiore Einstein

Nishi Shah, MD, MBBS

Medical Oncology

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Associate Professor

Montefiore Medical Center
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Bronx, NY 10467-2401
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Nishi Shah, MD, MPH, is an attending physician, Oncology, and Assistant Professor at Montefiore-Einstein. Her clinical focus is on the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies, with particular focus in plasma cell disorders and B-cell malignancies. She utilizes novel targeted agents, stem cell transplant and cell therapies in the treatment of patients.

After earning her medical degree at Grand Medical College in Mumbai, India in 2011, Dr. Shah attended the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, earning her Master of Public Health in 2014. She then pursued postgraduate training at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, completing her internal medicine internship in 2015 and her internal medicine residency in 2017. She then came to Montefiore to pursue a hematology-oncology fellowship, completing it in 2020.

Dr. Shah’s research focuses on improving access to care and addressing gaps in health equity for patients with hematologic malignancies as well as exploring methods to improve patient access to clinical trials. She has shared her work through peer-reviewed journals, abstracts, and poster presentations. Dr. Shah is also an ad hoc reviewer for several journals including Acta Hematologica, Leukemia and Lymphoma, and Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia.

Dr. Shah is board certified in hematology and medical oncology, and is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer. In 2020, she received the Conquer Cancer Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Gender: Female