ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Nilay S. Shah, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine and clinical cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. He completed an MD and MPH from Northwestern University, an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, a clinical cardiology fellowship and certificate in health equity and advocacy at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, and a postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology supported by an NIH/NHLBI F32 grant at Northwestern. His research program focuses on understanding the epidemiology and clinical implications of cardiometabolic health transitions and the development of cardiovascular diseases across the life course, with a vision to shift emphasis to primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease. He seeks to identify, adapt, implement, and scale effective cardiovascular disease prevention strategies, with particular focus on populations experiencing disparities, including Asian Americans and specifically South Asian Americans. He is the recipient of an NIH/NHLBI K23 grant to launch the MASALA-2G Study, an innovative offspring cohort to characterize cardiovascular health in young adult South Asian Americans. His work has been supported by NHLBI, NCATS, and the American Heart Association.