Nirav Jitendra Shah, MD

Dr. Shah’s interests lie at the intersection of perioperative care, quality improvement, and information technology. His health services research interests include using large clinical datasets to improve the perioperative quality and provider satisfaction, and using novel information technology solutions to track patient reported outcomes. As Program Director for Anesthesiology Performance Improvement & Reporting Exchange (ASPIRE), his role is to lead collaborative quality improvement efforts across its 40+ member institutions, including 20 across the state of Michigan. ASPIRE focuses on practice variation among anesthesia providers, and developing tools to determine performance across providers and hospitals.

Within Michigan Medicine, he is the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer – Perioperative Care, and Director of Anesthesia Informatics and Systems Improvement, where he leads a team that develops software solutions for perioperative quality improvement, research, clinical and business operations, and supports the hospital’s perioperative EHR.