Silvi Shah, MD, MS, is a tenured associate professor and an NIH-funded physician-scientist in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Shah completed her general nephrology fellowship from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, a transplant nephrology fellowship at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and a master's in clinical and translation research from the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Shah's research focuses on women’s health, including pregnancy, sex disparities, health equity, and cardiovascular health with kidney disease. She is a recipient of the K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Shah has led groundbreaking work that identified a high pregnancy incidence in women with kidney failure undergoing dialysis, published in the high-impact Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Shah has authored over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts. She is an associate editor for Advances in Kidney Disease and Health journal and serves on the editorial board of JASN, CJASN, and Kidney 360 journals. Dr. Shah is chair-elect for the American Heart Association’s “Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease” SCILL committee and leads the American Society of Nephrology’s “Women’s Health and Research in Nephrology” community. She has served as the executive member of the American Society of Transplantation’s “Women’s Health Community of Practice” and as the councilor in the Women in Nephrology.