Neomi A Shah, MD
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Specialties:
Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care MedicineResearch Topics:
Angiogenesis, Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular, Computed Tomography, Imaging, Lung, MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Molecular Epidemiology, Obesity
Neomi Shah, MD, MPH, MSC, is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Shah is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. She completed her clinical and research fellowship in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep at Yale University School of Medicine. During her fellowship, she also earned a Master’s in Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health and received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. Dr. Shah’s post-doctoral research identified sleep apnea as a risk factor for coronary artery disease related events. She seeks to elucidate the complex relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and coronary artery disease, especially in the setting of an acute myocardial infarction. After completing fellowship, Dr. Shah was a faculty member at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore prior to joining Mount Sinai.
Dr. Shah has received two grant awards from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation (2009, 2011) and an institutional CTSA KL-2 Career Development Award (2012-2015). Dr. Shah is the Principal Investigator of an NIH funded K-23 award. She leads a multidisciplinary translational study that investigates the effect of sleep apnea on severity and prognosis of myocardial infarction through an integrated assessment of: (1) quantification of myocardial infarct size using cardiac imaging, (2) coronary collateral scoring and (3) biomarkers of hypoxic stress. In addition to the K-23, Dr. Shah also recently received a Focused Projects Award from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation where she plans to measure “Coronary Plaque Activity Using Cardiac Gated PET-CT with 18F-NaF in Individuals With and Without Sleep Apnea”. She has partnered her research with a leading expert in the field of cardiac imaging, Dr. Zahi Fayad, who is the Director of the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at Sinai. In addition to the above noted research investigations, Dr. Shah is also the Medical Director of Bronx Clinic for the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), a landmark population-based study of health outcomes in the US Latino population led by her mentor Dr. Robert Kaplan. There is an extensive sleep component in HCHS/SOL, including both self-reported and objective sleep monitoring, making it one of the largest studies ever conducted on sleep disorders and vascular disease. Dr. Shah has been actively involved in data collection, analysis and manuscript production in this ambitious and complex study of 16,000 Hispanic individuals from across the US. In particular, she has spearheaded research in this cohort aimed to identify gender and ethnic differences in the presentation of sleep apnea and biomarkers of sleep apnea that are linked to cardiovascular disease risk. Dr. Shah is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.
Dr. Shah serves on the editorial board of CHEST and Journal of Epidemiological Research. Additionally, she serves on CHEST’s Sleep Steering Committee, American Thoracic Society’s Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology Assembly’s Education Committee. She has published her research in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Sleep and Breathing, Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis Vascular Biology and The Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Shah is pursuing a Master of Science in Health Care Delivery Leadership at the Sinai’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and is expected to graduate in 2017.
Dr. Shah is the author of "Sleep in the City," which was recently published in the Our Town newspaper.
Certifications
Sleep Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine
Clinical Focus
- Cataplexy
- Circadian Rhythm Disorders
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Daytime Sleepiness
- Hypersomnia
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD)
- Polysomnography
- REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- Septoplasty
- Sleep Apnea
- Snoring
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Ventricular Tachycardia
Education
MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center
MD, Yale University School of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
Fellowship, Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
-
2013
Sleep Research Network Travel -
2012
Young Investigator Abstract Award -
2011
NIH Loan Repayment Award -
2005
NIH National Research Service Award
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Dr. Shah did not report having any of the following types of financial relationships with industry during 2018 and/or 2019: consulting, scientific advisory board, industry-sponsored lectures, service on Board of Directors, participation on industry-sponsored committees, equity ownership valued at greater than 5% of a publicly traded company or any value in a privately held company. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
Physicians who provide services at hospitals and facilities in the Mount Sinai Health System might not participate in the same health plans as those Mount Sinai hospitals and facilities (even if the physicians are employed or contracted by those hospitals or facilities).
Information regarding insurance participation and billing by this physician may be found on this page, and can also be obtained by contacting this provider directly. Because physicians insurance participation can change, the insurance information on this page may not always be up-to-date. Please contact this physician directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.
Insurance and health plan networks that the various Mount Sinai Health System hospitals and facilities participate in can be found on the Mount Sinai Health System website.