Contact
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
- nshah1@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-0146
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Home dialysis peritoneal dialysis transitional care unit social media FOAMed NephTwitter NephPearls AskRenal
About
Personal Statement:
My primary interests are innovation, quality improvement and increased uptake of home dialysis, especially peritoneal dialysis. I am also an active user of social media to promote nephrology education.
Dr. Nikhil Shah graduated from medical school from the University of Pune in India where he also completed general internal medicine and nephrology residencies. He qualified as a Diplomate of National Board in India. He came to the University of Alberta as an American Society of Transplantation fellow in kidney transplantation and stayed to complete clinical nephrology and home dialysis clinical research fellowships. He was appointed clinical lecturer in the Division of Nephrology in 2017 and promoted to clinical assistant professor in 2019.
Leadership and Collaborations:
Dr. Shah is the co-director of the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit for Alberta Kidney Care – North Division. He is a member of Connect Care’s Renal Area Council and Renal Working Groups for Med IT and Data Transition, tasked with overseeing the creation of a comprehensive provincial EMR for nephrology. He co-chairs a provincial working group for promoting home dialysis for both current and new dialysis patients and is a member of the Alberta Kidney Care – North’s Home Dialysis First Initiative. He is an executive member of NephJC.com, an online medical journal club that uses Twitter for discussing important nephrology literature. He is also faculty for the Nephrology Social Media Collective, an innovative online social media training course for nephrology professionals eager to harness the potential of social media. He is a member of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis’ Media and Communications Committee and is the upcoming social media editor for the journal Peritoneal Dialysis International.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Shah is fulltime clinical staff and an attending nephrologist at the University of Alberta Hospital. He also cares for patients at a rural nephrology clinic in Whitecourt, Alberta.
Research
Among the several quality improvement projects Dr. Shah leads is a transitional care unit that provides focused team support and promotes home dialysis for end-stage kidney failure patients, who are new to dialysis, to improve their experience. He is working with other Canadian centers to study the outcomes of embedded peritoneal dialysis catheters. He is also part of North American Registry for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters. He has published papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals including Hemodialysis International and American Journal of Kidney Disease as well as in online-only publications.
Teaching
Dr. Shah delivers core lectures in nephrology and is active in training and leading social media use among nephrology trainees and physicians. He has completed several projects employing social media use in medical education, communication and promotion of clinical practices.
Featured Publications
Okpechi IG, Jha V, Cho Y, Ye F, Ijezie CI, Jindal K, Klarenbach S, Makusidi MA, Okpechi-Samuel US, Okwuonu C, Shah N, Thompson S, Tonelli M, Johnson DW, Bello AK.
Nephrology (Carlton). 2022 May; 10.1111/nep.14024.
Ghimire A, Sultana N, Ye F, Hamonic LN, Grill AK, Singer A, Akbari A, Braam B, Collister D, Jindal K, Courtney M, Shah N, Ronksley PE, Shurraw S, Brimble KS, Klarenbach S, Chou S, Shojai S, Deved V, Wong A, Okpechi I, Bello AK
BMJ Open. 2022 April; 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055456
Thompson S., Schick-Makaroff K., Bello A., Tonelli M., Wiebe N., Buzinski R., Courtney M., Szigety S., Shah N., Bohm C.
Canadian Journal Kidney Health . 2021 July; 8 10.1177/20543581211032857
Li P., Choo D., Deved V., Shah N., Shurraw S., Zuidema S., Samji R.
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2021 June; 32 (6):902-906 10.1016/j.jvir.2021.03.522
Varghese A., Lacson E., Sontrop J.M., Acedillo R.R., Al-Jaishi A.A., Anderson S., Bagga A., Bain K.L., Bennett L.L., Bohm C., Brown P.A., Chan C.T., Cote B., Dev V., Field B., Harris C., Kalatharan S., Kiaii M., Molnar A.O., Oliver M.J., Parmar M.S., Schorr M., Shah N., Silver S.A., Smith D.M., Sood M.M., St. Louis I., Tennankore K.K., Thompson S., Tonelli M., Vorster H., Waldvogel B., Zacharias J., Garg A.X.
Canadian Journal Kidney Health . 2020 October; 7 10.1177/2054358120964078
Patel D., Truong T., Shah N., Colbert G.B., Thomas B., Velez J.C.Q., Lerma E.V., Hiremath S.
Disease-a-Month. 2020 September; 66 (9) 10.1016/j.disamonth.2020.101057