Palak Shah MD, FACC, FHFSA

Dr. Palak Shah, M.D., M.S., is a Heart Failure Transplant Cardiologist at Inova Fairfax Hospital as well as a translational investigator within the Inova Translational Medicine Institute. He holds the position of Assistant Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr. Shah’s clinical interests include advanced cardiomyopathies, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac transplantation. He received his undergraduate training from Carnegie Mellon University and medical degree from St. George’s University in 2005. He subsequently completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University. In 2009, he spent a year as Chief Medical Resident at Georgetown University. During his Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at George Washington University, he received a Masters in Clinical and Translational Research and was also elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha honors society. Dr. Shah received his Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant training at the University of Michigan in 2012. His research interests are focused on mechanical circulatory support; more specifically use of genomic tools to better predict and manage the complications of VAD therapy.