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Rushi Shah

Rushi Shah, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department: MD-SURGERY-GEN-TRANSPLANT
Business Phone: (352) 594-4111
Business Email: rushi.shah@ufl.edu

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About Rushi Shah

I am an assistant professor of surgery in the University of Florida Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery. My clinical interests, include multiorgan transplantation for adults and pediatrics, including liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, kidney and pancreas transplantation, intestine and multi-visceral transplantation, acute liver failure, liver cirrhosis, Laennec cirrhosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.

I received my medical degree at Saint George’s University School of Medicine and completed my general surgery residency at Lincoln Medical Center in the Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Surgery. After, I completed two fellowships in abdominal transplant surgery and advanced abdominal minimally invasive transplant surgery at the Miami Transplant Institute – an affiliation between Jackson Health System and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. There, I was awarded Outstanding Fellow of the Year.

I aim to provide the best possible care and outcomes for my patients. One way I plan to accomplish this for those on the transplant list is to maximize the organ donor pool using leading-edge machine perfusion and to establish a transplant research lab that uses 3D printed organs and xenotransplantation to help overcome organ shortage.

In my free time, I maintain an active lifestyle, including biking, mountaineering, kayaking and white water rafting.

Accomplishments

  1. Outstanding Fellow of the Year

    University of Miami School of Medicine

  2. Winner, Fellows Oral Debate

    American Society of Transplant Surgeons

  3. International Award, Best Case in Conference

    Presented at 20th European Congress of Trauma Emergency Surgery

Clinical Profile

Subspecialties

  • Transplant Surgery

Areas of Interest

  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Cirrhosis
  • End-Stage Kidney Disease
  • Hepatic Hemangioma
  • Kidney Transplant
  • Liver Cancer – Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Liver Disease
  • Liver Transplant
  • Pancreas Transplant
  • Polycystic Kidney Disease

Research Profile

Areas of Interest

  • Expanding organ donation from living and deceased donors
  • Extracorporeal organ support
  • Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplant
  • Maximizing organ utilization
  • Minimizing organ discard
  • Organ transplantation

Publications

Academic Articles

  1. Soluble DNA Concentration in the Perfusate is a Predictor of Posttransplant Renal Function in Hypothermic Machine Perfused Kidney Allografts

    Journal
    Transplantation Direct.
    Volume/Issue
    11(4)
    [DOI]
    10.1097/txd.0000000000001768.
    Publisher’s Site

  2. Secondary Cold Ischemia After Normothermic Machine Perfusion: A Drawback to Centralized Organ Perfusion Centers?

    Journal
    Transplantation.
    Volume/Issue
    107(6):1237-1239
    [DOI]
    10.1097/TP.0000000000004569.
    [PMID]
    36922377.
    PubMed Publisher’s Site

  3. Multivisceral Transplant in a Patient With Portopulmonary Hypertension: A Case Report

    Journal
    Transplantation Proceedings.
    Volume/Issue
    54(6):1664-1670
    [DOI]
    10.1016/j.transproceed.2022.03.057.
    Publisher’s Site

Education

  1. Fellowship, Advanced Abdominal Minimally Invasive Transplant Surgery

    University of Miami: Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami Transplant Institute

  2. Fellowship, Abdominal Transplant Surgery

    University of Miami: Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami Transplant Institute

  3. Residency, Surgery

    Weil Cornell Medical College: Lincoln Medical Center

  4. Medical School

    Saint George’s University, School of Medicine

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 594-4111
Emails:
Business:
rushi.shah@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Street:
1600 SW ARCHER RD RM 6142
 GAINESVILLE FL 32610