Dr Samir R Shah is the Director – Department of Transplant Hepatology, HPB, Liver Intensive Care at the Global hospital, Mumbai, visiting consultant, Breach Candy Hospital and Cumballa Hill Hospital.
He has been awarded the Hargobind Foundation Scholarship and trained in Hepatology and Liver transplant at the Institute of Hepatology, University College London.
He was the first elected Secretary of the Indian Association for Study of the Liver for the period 1995-1997 and has been a Council Member of the International Liaison Committee, Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL).
He has been involved with several international clinical trials on new drug development with presentations in international meetings and publications in peer reviewed journals.
He has been the driving force to co-ordinate efforts to start a cadaveric organ transplant programme in the country and Mumbai in particular.
Member of the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, National Advisory Board of the Journal of the Association of Physician of India (JAPI) Editorial Board Member, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology.
SPECIALISATION:
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B,C, Fatty Liver Disease
Liver critical care, acute and chronic Liver failure, Hepatic Encephalopathy
