Nisha Shah

Nisha Shah, MD, attends as an intensivist in an academic medical intensive care unit. She directs a specialized pleural procedure service and oversees clinical training for pulmonary fellows, instructing them in invasive mechanical ventilation and chest tube insertion. Her faculty research investigates clinical outcomes associated with prolonged ventilator support and acute respiratory failure in critical care settings. Shah attended Montana Technological University for an undergraduate degree in chemistry before graduating from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center with her medical degree. Following medical school, she finished internal medicine residency training and subspecialty fellowship work in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, dividing her hospital time between patient management and bedside teaching.