Kaushal H. Shah, MD, FACEP

Associate Editor-In-Chief

Kaushal H. Shah, MD, FACEP, received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1996, his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in 2000 and completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2003. Dr. Shah is currently the Emergency Medicine Residency Director and an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Dr. Shah has a strong interest in education and trauma. He is presently the Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) national Trauma Interest Group and section editor for "Trauma Reports" in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is an active member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), particularly at the state level, where he is on the Board of Directors and serves as Chair of the Education Committee. He is also a member of ACEP’s Clinical Policies Committee. He has distinguished himself as a writer and editor in the emergency medicine community with his Essential Emergency series, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. There are presently 4 books in the series: Essential Emergency Procedures, Essential Emergency Trauma, Essential Emergency Imaging, and Essential Emergency Procedural Sedation and Pain Management. Dr. Shah’s most recent book, Practical Emergency Resuscitation and Critical Care, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. In 2018, Dr. Shah was recognized by Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a Fellow in Leadership. 

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