- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Pali Shah
Professional Titles
- Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Pali Dedhiya Shah is a pulmonary and critical care physician. She is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of advanced lung disease and lung transplantation. She is the medical director of the Johns Hopkins Lung Transplant program. She is a member of the International Society for Heart and Lung transplantation and provides teaching to medical students, residents and fellows at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Shah earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and performed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Shah joined the Johns Hopkins faculty as an assistant professor of medicine in 2011.
Centers and Institutes
Research Interests
Chronic Rejection in Lung Transplant, Quality and Safety in Lung Transplant
Lab Website
Pali Shah Lab
- Research in the Pali Shah Lab focuses on lung transplants. Specifically, we're interested in chronic rejection and quality and safety as they relate to lung transplants.
Research Summary
Dr. Shah is interested in the clinical and immunologic risk factors for chronic lung allograft dysfunction. She has served as site PI or co-investigator in several NIH funded multi-center studies of lung transplant recipients. These include the Lung Transplant Outcomes Group, an NIH-funded study of genetic determinants of primary graft dysfunction (PGD, the. Genomic Research Alliance for Transplantation, which examines donor derived cell free DNA as a marker for acute rejection in thoracic transplant recipients and CTOT -20 (Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation), where she is part of the mechanistic core studying CMV immune-phenotypes, and determinants of chronic lung allograft dysfunction. Additionally she is site PI The Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium.
Honors
- Fordederer Scholarship for International Health, Jefferson Medical College, 1/1/01
- Matriculation, Magna cum Laude, 1/1/01
- Hobart Amory Hare Honor Medical Society, Jefferson Medical College, 1/1/00
- Mary Beacham Academic Scholarship, Jefferson Medical College, 1/1/00
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (Junior year), 1/1/00
Lectures & Presentations
Update in Lung Transplantation, Promises and Challenges, Conference, The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center's 14th Annual Transplant Conference, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 6/9/12
Memberships
- American Thoracic Society
- The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation
Professional Activities
- Dekalb County Hospital, Medical Grand Rounds: Update in COPD, 1/1/09
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pulmonary Grand Rounds, 1/1/05 - 1/1/09
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Anesthesia/ Surgical Intensive Care Unit Multidisciplinary Conference, 1/1/09
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN, Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group, 1/1/10
Locations
- Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
- 601 North Caroline Street, Floor 7, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-614-4898
- fax: 410-614-7008
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 2009Penn Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Residency, Internal Medicine, 2004Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Medical Education, MD, 2001Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)
Ratings & Reviews
4.9 out of 5
43 ratings, 15 reviewsThe Patient Rating score is an average of all responses to physician related questions on the national CG-CAHPS Medical Practice patient experience survey through Press Ganey. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best score. Comments are also gathered from our CG-CAHPS Medical Practice Survey through Press Ganey and displayed in their entirety. Patients are de-identified for confidentiality and patient privacy.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 2/19/2025
Dr. Shah is very professional and always explains my treatment plan in great detail.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 1/22/2025
Healthcare providers were excellent.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 11/19/2024
Dr Shah is very friendly and thorough I feel good and confident in what she tells me
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 11/6/2024
She listened to my concerns took time to explain my concerns, always professional and caring.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 10/9/2024
Dr. Shah take time to listen to your concerns and answers any questions you may have.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 10/9/2024
Allways informative and professional
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 9/18/2024
My provider is very professional & she has a lot of knowledge about a great deal when it comes to medicine.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 9/11/2024
Dr Shah is the best.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 8/20/2024
Lung transplant team is the greatest Dr Shah always makes me understand and thorough to help me
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 7/3/2024
Always very kind informative and professional.
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 6/18/2024
Very compasionate
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 5/15/2024
She was very knowledgeable and helpful
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 4/30/2024
I love my team.
- 4 out of 5 starsReviewed on 4/23/2024
Dr shah is very nice
- 5 out of 5 starsReviewed on 3/26/2024
I have had the same provider and have been working with Dr Pali Shah since my transplant in [month, year]. I can't say enough wonderful things about her.She is patient and understanding and informationable about my concerns. And, I love that I have been seeing her since my transplant. The doctor that operated on me left shortly after my transplant.