Rashmee Uday Shah

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Rashmee U. Shah, MD MS is an Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She has been on tenure track faculty at the University of Utah since 2014.Dr. Shah received her medical degree at the Tufts University School of Medicine, where she graduated with honors. She completed Internal Medicine Residency at Northwestern University and then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship and Master"s degree in Health Services Research at Stanford University. Dr. Shah completed her cardiology training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh. Her clinical interests include echocardiography, acute cardiac care, and data and information systems to improve health care outcomes.Nationally, she chairs the Young Investigators Committee and is on the Leadership Council for the American Heart Association Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. Cardiology Today recently named her a “NextGen Innovator.” She is the recipient of grant support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and is focused on practical applications of data science. Specifically, she is developing a clinically useful tool for information extraction from the electronic health record, focused on patient safety.