Dr. Ravi Shah, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he serves as the Director of Clinical and Translational Research in Cardiovascular Medicine. He specializes in the treatment of patients with advanced heart failure.

Dr. Shah completed his residency in internal medicine, followed by fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and advanced heart failure and transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then pursued a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Saumya Das and Dr. Raymond Kwong, studying the impact of non-coding RNAs on cardiac remodeling. He currently leads a laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center focused on the functional biology and molecular epidemiology of cardiometabolic diseases and heart failure. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Heart Association (AHA), and has been published in leading journals including Circulation, Nature Medicine, Circulation Research, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Shah graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry from Harvard College and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School.