Samir Shah, MD, MSCE
| Office Location | Room 1526, 3535 Market |
| Office Phone | 215-590-4378 |
| shahs@email.chop.edu | |
Faculty Information | |
| CCEB Appointment | Senior Scholar, Epidemiology |
| Primary Faculty Appointment | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at CHOP, University of Pennsylvania SOM |
| DBE Appointment | Assistant Professor of Epidemiology |
Additional Positions
Research Director, Alliance for International Medicine (CHOP)
Research Statement
My research seeks to improve the efficiency of the management of children with common childhood infections with a specific focus on pneumonia and meningitis. Ongoing pneumonia-related projects include developing predictive models to identify high-risk children with community-acquired pneumonia, using observational study designs and administrative data to determine optimal treatment approaches to children with pneumonia-related complications, and identifying process measures for children with pneumonia in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. Ongoing meningitis-related projects focus on the optimizing the use of novel PCR-based viral and bacterial detection tests to diagnose childhood meningitis.
Courses Taught
Critical Appraisal of the Medical Literature (Course Director)
Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Workshop Leader)
Clinical Decision Making (Small Group Leader)
Selected Publications
Shah SS, Ratner AJ. Trends in invasive pneumococcal disease-associated hospitalizations. Clin Infect Dis 2006;42:e1-5.
Shah SS, Hodinka RL, Turnquist JL, Elliott MR, Coffin SE. Cerebrospinal fluid mononuclear cell predominance is not related to symptom duration in children with enteroviral meningitis. J Pediatr 2006;148:118-121.
Steenhoff AP, Shah SS, Ratner AJ, Patil S, McGowan KL. Emergence of vaccine-related pneumococcal serotypes as a cause of bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis 2006;42:907-914.
Gerber JS, Glas MM, Frank G, Shah SS. Streptococcus bovis infection in young infants. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2006;25:1069-1073.
Kagen J, Bilker WB, Lautenbach E, Bell LM, Coffin SE, St. John KH, Teszner E, Dominguez TE, Gaynor JW, Shah SS. Risk adjustment of surgical site infections following median sternotomy in children. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007;28:398-405
Shah SS, Kagen J, Lautenbach E, Bilker WB, Matro J, Dominguez TE, Tabbutt S, Gaynor JW, Bell LM. Bloodstream infections following median sternotomy in children. J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:435-440
Shah SS, Hall M, Goodman DM, Feuer P, Sharma V, Fargason C, Hyman D, Jenkins K, White ML, Levy FH, Levin JE, Bertoch D, Slonim AD. Off-label drug use in hospitalized children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2007;161:282-290.
Kagen J, Zaoutis TE, McGowan KL, Luan X, Shah SS. Bloodstream infections caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007;26:508-512.
Kagen J, Lautenbach E, Bilker WB, Matro J, Bell LM, Dominguez TE, Gaynor JW, Shah SS. Risk factors for mediastinitis following median sternotomy. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007;26:613-618.
Segal SC, Zaoutis TE, Kagen J, Shah SS. Acinetobacter species bloodstream infections in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007;26:920-926.
King RL, Lorch SA, Cohen DM, Hodinka RL, Cohn KA, Shah SS. Routine cerebrospinal fluid enterovirus polymerase chain reaction testing reduces hospitalization and antibiotic use for infants 90 days of age or younger. Pediatrics 2007;120:489-496.
Wood SM, Shah SS, Steenhoff AP, Rutstein RM. Primary varicella and herpes zoster among HIV-infected children from 1989-2006. Pediatrics 2008;121:e150-e156.
Cohen DM, Lorch SA, King RL, Hodinka RL, Cohn KA, Shah SS. Factors influencing the decision to test young infants for herpes simplex virus infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007;26:1156-1158.
Shah SS, Downes KJ, Elliott MR, Bell LM, McGowan KL, Metlay JP. How long does it take to "rule-out" bacteremia in children with central venous catheters. Pediatrics 2008;121:135-141.
Downes KJ, Metlay JP, Bell LM, McGowan KL, Elliott MR, Shah SS. Polymicrobial bloodstream infections among children and adolescents with central venous catheters evaluated in ambulatory care. Clin Infect Dis 2008;46:387-394.
Berry JG, Hall M, Sharma V, Slonim AD, Shah SS. Longitudinal analysis of cerebrospinal fluid shunt survival in children. Neurosurgery (In press)
Kronman M, Hall M, Slonim AD, Shah SS. Charges and lengths of stay attributable to adverse patient-care events using pediatric-specific quality indicators: a multicenter study of free-standing childrens hospitals. Pediatrics (In press)
Shah SS, DiCristina CM, Bell LM, Ten Have TR, Metlay JP. Primary early thoracoscopy reduces length of stay and repeat procedures in children with complicated pneumonia: results of a multi-center retrospective cohort study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (In press)
