Dr. Tina Shah is a practicing physician and national expert in workforce wellbeing, public policy and health technology. In 2022, she was handpicked by the US Surgeon General to serve as Senior Advisor and created the nation’s first strategy to address worker burnout and the great resignation in healthcare. She also served in both the Obama and Trump White House Administrations with a dual appointment at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Among her federal work, as VA’s first national director of clinician wellbeing, she is most proud of expanding veteran access to primary care by optimizing electronic medical record-based workflows.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Shah stood up virtual care for one of the largest health systems in Georgia. As a seasoned healthcare executive, she oversaw COVID-19 emergency response across the US Indian Health Service to expand capacity to care for critically ill indigenous patients. She now advises health systems, investors and startups on how to ‘level up’ the care experience for patients and clinicians through creating efficiencies with technology in the workplace. Dr. Shah is a founding member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Clinician Well-being Collaborative and the recipient of the American Medical Association’s Excellence in Medicine Award for her contributions to US medicine.
Dr. Shah appears frequently as a healthcare expert on national television. Nationally known as a dynamic communicator, she has spoken at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Harvard, National Academy of Medicine, and Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Shah received her MD from Thomas Jefferson University and her MPH from Harvard. She is triple board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care, and actively practices in New Jersey.
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