Rate My Professor Manish Shah

Manish N. Shah, MD, MPH, is the Chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine and holds the Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he also serves as Professor of emergency medicine, population health sciences, and geriatrics. He earned a BA in Biology from the University of Chicago in 1992, an MD in 1996 and MPH from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, completed emergency medicine residency at The Ohio State University as Chief Resident from 1996 to 1999, and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2001. Shah's career includes early attending physician positions at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center. From 2001 to 2015 at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, he progressed from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in departments of emergency medicine, public health sciences, and geriatrics, serving as Chief of the Division of Prehospital Medicine from 2008 to 2013 and Associate Chair for Research from 2010 to 2015. At UW-Madison since 2015, roles include Vice Chair of Research until 2022, John & Tashia Morgridge Chair of Emergency Medicine Research until 2022, Director of the NIH-funded KL2 Scholars Program from 2016 to 2022, and Associate Director for Faculty Development at the UW Center for Health Disparities Research since 2021.