Pali Shah, MD

Professional Titles

• Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Comprehensive Transplant Center
• Heart and Vascular Institute

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Contact for Research Inquiries

1830 Monument St 5th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21205

pdedhiy2@jhmi.edu

Research Interests

Chronic Rejection in Lung Transplant, Quality and Safety in Lung Transplant

Lab Website

Pali Shah Lab

• Research in the Pali Shah Lab focuses on lung transplants. Specifically, we're interested in chronic rejection and quality and safety as they relate to lung transplants.

Research Summary

Dr. Shah is interested in the clinical and immunologic risk factors for chronic lung allograft dysfunction. She has served as site PI or co-investigator in several NIH funded multi-center studies of lung transplant recipients. These include the Lung Transplant Outcomes Group, an NIH-funded study of genetic determinants of primary graft dysfunction (PGD, the. Genomic Research Alliance for Transplantation, which examines donor derived cell free DNA as a marker for acute rejection in thoracic transplant recipients and CTOT -20 (Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation), where she is part of the mechanistic core studying CMV immune-phenotypes, and determinants of chronic lung allograft dysfunction. Additionally she is site PI The Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium.

PubMed - Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1H3QkvwW97UQO/bibliograpahy/49587455/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

Honors

• Fordederer Scholarship for International Health, Jefferson Medical College, 1/1/01
• Matriculation, Magna cum Laude, 1/1/01
• Hobart Amory Hare Honor Medical Society, Jefferson Medical College, 1/1/00
• Mary Beacham Academic Scholarship, Jefferson Medical College, 1/1/00
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (Junior year), 1/1/00

Lectures & Presentations

Update in Lung Transplantation, Promises and Challenges, Conference, The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center's 14th Annual Transplant Conference, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 6/9/12

Memberships

• American Thoracic Society
• The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Professional Activities

• Dekalb County Hospital, Medical Grand Rounds: Update in COPD, 1/1/09
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pulmonary Grand Rounds, 1/1/05 - 1/1/09
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Anesthesia/ Surgical Intensive Care Unit Multidisciplinary Conference, 1/1/09
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN, Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group, 1/1/10