Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Clinic, Main Campus 2016 - 2019
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2013 - 2016
  • M.D., Wake Forest University School Of Medicine 2013
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2019 - 2020
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  Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

  • Co-director Cardiology Grand Rounds
    Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cholesterol
  • Lipoprotein A
  • Lipoprotein Lipase
  • Prevention
  • Rehabilitation
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • SEER-CV Registry (EFFECTIVENESS OF PCSK9I IN THE PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: A GLOBAL REGISTRY REAL WORLD DATA IN PATIENTS WITH ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE) awarded by Amgen, Inc. 2021 - 2026
  • Optimizing the Management and Outcomes for Cancer Survivors Transitioning to Follow-up Care awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
  • Creating the Learning Healthcare Platform of the Future: High Risk ASCVD Registry for Longitudinal follow up awarded by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC. 2018 - 2024
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  External Relationships

  • American Heart Journal
  • Novartis pharmaceuticals
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Grant, Jelani K., and Nishant P. Shah. “The Impact of Physical Activity on Pericarditis.” Current Cardiology Reports 23, no. 10 (August 27, 2021): 150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-021-01578-0.
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    • Huded, Chetan P., Nishant P. Shah, Rishi Puri, Stephen J. Nicholls, Kathy Wolski, Steven E. Nissen, and Leslie Cho. “Association of Serum Lipoprotein (a) Levels and Coronary Atheroma Volume by Intravascular Ultrasound.” J Am Heart Assoc 9, no. 23 (December 2020): e018023. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.018023.
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    • Khayata, Mohamed, Nishant P. Shah, Beni R. Verma, Aldo S. Giugni, Saqer Alkharabsheh, Craig R. Asher, Massimo Imazio, and Allan L. Klein. “Usefulness of Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonists in Patients With Recurrent Pericarditis.” Am J Cardiol 127 (July 15, 2020): 184–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2020.03.041.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Neha J. Pajidipati, Robert W. McGarrah, Ann Marie Navar, Sreekanth Vemulapalli, Michael A. Blazing, Svati H. Shah, Adrian F. Hernandez, and Manesh R. Patel. “Lipoprotein (a): An Update on a Marker of Residual Risk and Associated Clinical Manifestations.” Am J Cardiol 126 (July 1, 2020): 94–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2020.03.043.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Haitham M. Ahmed, and WH Wilson Tang. “In Reply: Familial hypercholesterolemia: Clarifications.” Cleve Clin J Med 87, no. 6 (June 2020): 320. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.06002.
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    • Kikuchi, Robin, Nishant P. Shah, and Susan F. Dent. “Strategies to Prevent Cardiovascular Toxicity in Breast Cancer: Is It Ready for Primetime?” J Clin Med 9, no. 4 (March 25, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9040896.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Haitham M. Ahmed, and W. H. Wilson Tang. “Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family.” Cleve Clin J Med 87, no. 2 (February 2020): 109–20. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19021.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Qiuqing Wang, Katherine E. Wolski, Leslie Cho, Ellen McErlean, Giacomo Ruotolo, Govinda Weerakkody, et al. “The Role of Lipoprotein (a) as a Marker of Residual Risk in Patients With Diabetes and Established Cardiovascular Disease on Optimal Medical Therapy: Post Hoc Analysis of ACCELERATE.” Diabetes Care 43, no. 2 (February 2020): e22–24. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc19-1117.
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    • Khayata, Mohamed, Saqer Alkharabsheh, Nishant P. Shah, Beni Rai Verma, James L. Gentry, Mathew Summers, Bo Xu, Craig Asher, and Allan L. Klein. “Case series, contemporary review and imaging guided diagnostic and management approach of congenital pericardial defects.” Open Heart 7, no. 1 (January 2020): e001103–e001103. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2019-001103.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Beni R. Verma, Chandra K. Ala, Mohamed Khayata, Dermot Phelan, Massimo Imazio, and Allan L. Klein. “Exercise Is Good for the Heart But Not for the Inflamed Pericardium?” Jacc: Cardiovascular Imaging 12, no. 9 (September 2019): 1880–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.01.022.
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    • Khayata, Mohamed, Saqer Alkharabsheh, Nishant P. Shah, and Allan L. Klein. “Pericardial Cysts: a Contemporary Comprehensive Review.” Current Cardiology Reports 21, no. 7 (July 2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-019-1153-5.
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    • Kumar, Anirudh, Nishant P. Shah, Venu Menon, and Steven E. Nissen. “Purpura fulminans manifesting with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a case report.” European Heart Journal  Case Reports 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytz077.
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    • Riaz, Haris, Safi U. Khan, Hammad Rahman, Nishant P. Shah, Edo Kaluski, A Michael Lincoff, and Steven E. Nissen. “Effects of high-density lipoprotein targeting treatments on cardiovascular outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 26, no. 5 (March 2019): 533–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487318816495.
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    • Aleyadeh, Wesam, Erika Hutt-Centeno, Haitham M. Ahmed, and Nishant P. Shah. “Hypertension guidelines: Treat patients, not numbers.” Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 86, no. 1 (January 2019): 47–56. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027.
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    • Abu-Haniyeh, Ahmed, Nishant P. Shah, Yuping Wu, Leslie Cho, and Haitham M. Ahmed. “Predictors of cardiorespiratory fitness improvement in phase II cardiac rehabilitation.” Clinical Cardiology 41, no. 12 (December 2018): 1563–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.23101.
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    • Riaz, Haris, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Tariq Jamal Siddiqi, Muhammad Shariq Usman, Nishant Shah, Amit Goyal, Sadiya S. Khan, Farouk Mookadam, Richard A. Krasuski, and Haitham Ahmed. “Association Between Obesity and Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Mendelian Randomization Studies.” Jama Netw Open 1, no. 7 (November 2, 2018): e183788. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.3788.
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    • Sharma, Kavita, Joban Vaishnav, Rohan Kalathiya, Jiun-Ruey Hu, John Miller, Nishant Shah, Terence Hill, et al. “Randomized Evaluation of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Patients With Acute Heart Failure and Dopamine: The ROPA-DOP Trial.” Jacc Heart Fail 6, no. 10 (October 2018): 859–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2018.04.008.
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    • Parikh, Parth, Nishant Shah, Haitham Ahmed, Paul Schoenhagen, and Maan Fares. “Coronary artery calcium scoring: Its practicality and clinical utility in primary care.” Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 85, no. 9 (September 2018): 707–16. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17097.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Leslie Cho, and Haitham M. Ahmed. “Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology 72, no. 10 (September 2018): 1177–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.06.042.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Ahmed AbuHaniyeh, and Haitham Ahmed. “Cardiac Rehabilitation: Current Review of the Literature and Its Role in Patients with Heart Failure.” Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine 20, no. 2 (February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11936-018-0611-5.
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    • Sathiyakumar, Vasanth, Nishant P. Shah, Ashwini Niranjan-Azadi, Jessica Tao, Allison Tsao, Isabella W. Martin, Daniel J. Brotman, and Annukka A. R. Antar. “Snowflakes in August: Leptospirosis Hemorrhagic Pneumonitis.” The American Journal of Medicine 130, no. 1 (January 2017): e9–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.07.015.
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    • Lee, Kimberley, Nishant P. Shah, Eric S. Christenson, Sammy Zakaria, and Ike Okwuosa. “Acute decompensated heart failure as the initial presentation of isolated aortitis.” Future Cardiology 12, no. 4 (July 2016): 467–70. https://doi.org/10.2217/fca-2016-0005.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, David I. Feldman, Roger S. Blumenthal, Khurram Nasir, Martin M. Miner, Kevin L. Billups, and Michael J. Blaha. “Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Men with Vascular Erectile Dysfunction: The View of the Preventive Cardiologist.” The American Journal of Medicine 129, no. 3 (March 2016): 251–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.08.038.
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    • Same, Robert V., David I. Feldman, Nishant Shah, Seth S. Martin, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Michael J. Blaha, Garth Graham, and Haitham M. Ahmed. “Relationship Between Sedentary Behavior and Cardiovascular Risk.” Current Cardiology Reports 18, no. 1 (January 2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-015-0678-5.
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    • Shah, Nishant P., Kristopher J. Swiger, and Seth S. Martin. “Impact on Cognitive Function—Are All Statins the Same?” Current Atherosclerosis Reports 17, no. 1 (January 2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-014-0466-5.
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