Nirav N Shah, MD | Medical College of Wisconsin

Nirav N. Shah, MD

Assistant Professor

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Locations

Froedtert Hospital
Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital

Specialties

Hematology
Medical Oncology

Languages

English, Gujarati

Contact Information

(414) 805-0505

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine

Biography

Nirav Shah, MD, MSHP, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of Hematology and Oncology, specializing in lymphoma, CAR-T cell therapy, and stem cell transplant at Froedtert Hospital. He graduated with honors and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society membership from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 2008. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 2011. Post-residency, he took a position at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Hospitalist medicine before proceeding to the University of Pennsylvania where he completed both hematology/oncology fellowship and a Master’s degree in Health Policy research in 2015.

Research Interests

Dr. Shah's current clinical and research interests include developing new cell based and immune therapies for patients with non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphoma. He is specifically involved in the development of new CAR-T cell therapies for blood cancers. His professional memberships include the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Dr. Shah is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Internal Medicine.

Ruxolitinib for the treatment of steroid-refractory acute GVHD (REACH1): a multicenter, open-label phase 2 trial.

(Jagasia M, Perales MA, Schroeder MA, Ali H, Shah NN, Chen YB, Fazal S, Dawkins FW, Arbushites MC, Tian C, Connelly-Smith L, Howell MD, Khoury HJ.) Blood. 2020 May 14;135(20):1739-1749 PMID: 32160294 PMCID: PMC7229262 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083637011 03/12/2020
Fludarabine/Busulfan Conditioning-Based Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Myelofibrosis: Role of Ruxolitinib in Improving Survival Outcomes.

(Chhabra S, Narra RK, Wu R, Szabo A, George G, Michaelis LC, D'Souza A, Dhakal B, Drobyski WR, Fenske TS, Jerkins JH, Pasquini MC, Rizzo RD, Saber W, Shah NN, Shaw BE, Hamadani M, Hari PN.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 May;26(5):893-901 PMID: 31982543 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85080146585 01/27/2020
Lifitegrast ophthalmic solution for treatment of ocular chronic graft-versus-host disease.

(Chhabra S, Jerkins JH, Conto JE, Zellner K, Shah NN, Hari PN, Hamadani M.) Leuk Lymphoma. 2020 Apr;61(4):869-874 PMID: 31762357 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075533403 11/26/2019
Propranolol inhibits molecular risk markers in HCT recipients: a phase 2 randomized controlled biomarker trial.

(Knight JM, Rizzo JD, Hari P, Pasquini MC, Giles KE, D'Souza A, Logan BR, Hamadani M, Chhabra S, Dhakal B, Shah N, Sriram D, Horowitz MM, Cole SW.) Blood Adv. 2020 Feb 11;4(3):467-476 PMID: 32027744 PMCID: PMC7013267 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85082178004 02/07/2020
Optimizing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy for Adults With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

(Frey NV, Shaw PA, Hexner EO, Pequignot E, Gill S, Luger SM, Mangan JK, Loren AW, Perl AE, Maude SL, Grupp SA, Shah NN, Gilmore J, Lacey SF, Melenhorst JJ, Levine BL, June CH, Porter DL.) J Clin Oncol. 2020 Feb 10;38(5):415-422 PMID: 31815579 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079075868 12/10/2019
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

(Badar T, Shah NN.) Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2020 Feb 05;21(2):16 PMID: 32025828 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079049524 02/07/2020
Trends in postrelapse survival in classic Hodgkin lymphoma patients after experiencing therapy failure following auto-HCT.

(Badar T, Epperla N, Szabo A, Borson S, Vaughn J, George G, Saini N, Shah AR, Patel RD, Ahmed S, Shah NN, Cashen AF, Hamadani M, Fenske TS.) Blood Adv. 2020 Jan 14;4(1):47-54 PMID: 31899797 PMCID: PMC6960457 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85078133666 01/04/2020
Vedolizumab for prevention of graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

(Chen YB, Shah NN, Renteria AS, Cutler C, Jansson J, Akbari M, Chen C, Quadri S, Parfionovas A, Devine SM.) Blood Adv. 2019 12 10;3(23):4136-4146 PMID: 31821456 PMCID: PMC6963235 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083376318 12/11/2019
Allogeneic transplantation in elderly patients ≥65 years with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a time-trend analysis.

(Shah NN, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Sureda A, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Awan FT, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Inwards D, Karmali R, Lazaryan A, Lekakis L, Munshi P, Nathan S, Saad AA, Solh M, Steinberg A, Vij R, Wood WA, Fenske TS, Smith S, Hamadani M.) Blood Cancer J. 2019 12 03;9(12):97 PMID: 31796726 PMCID: PMC6890709 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075936084 12/05/2019
Myeloablative vs reduced intensity T-cell-replete haploidentical transplantation for hematologic malignancy.

(Solomon SR, St Martin A, Shah NN, Fatobene G, Al Malki MM, Ballen KK, Bashey A, Bejanyan N, Bolaños Meade J, Brunstein CG, DeFilipp Z, Champlin RE, Fuchs EJ, Hamadani M, Hematti P, Kanakry CG, McGuirk JP, McNiece IK, Ciurea SO, Pasquini MC, Rocha V, Romee R, Patel SS, Vasu S, Waller EK, Wingard JR, Zhang MJ, Eapen M.) Blood Adv. 2019 10 08;3(19):2836-2844 PMID: 31582392 PMCID: PMC6784523 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85073446898 10/05/2019
Gut microbiome and CAR-T therapy.

(Abid MB, Shah NN, Maatman TC, Hari PN.) Exp Hematol Oncol. 2019;8:31 PMID: 31827982 PMCID: PMC6862813 12/13/2019
Gut microbiome and CAR-T therapy

(Abid MB, Shah NN, Maatman TC, Hari PN.) Experimental Hematology and Oncology. 19 November 2019;8(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075584597 11/19/2019