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Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH, is Senior Scholar at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer of Sharecare [NASDAQ: SHCR]. He is a distinguished healthcare leader with experience as an independent director, operator, scientist, innovator, and regulator. His expertise spans public and private health insurance markets, healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, clinical operations across the continuum of care, and regulatory oversight of healthcare and public health.

At Stanford, Dr. Shah cares for patients and conducts research on improving healthcare quality and safety while lowering cost, driving adoption of digital technologies, and quantitatively evaluating the resulting value for US and international health care systems. At Sharecare, he leads the clinical team for a comprehensive and data-driven virtual health platform designed to help people, providers, employers, health plans, government, and communities optimize individual and population well-being by driving positive behavior change.

Dr. Shah is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Medicine. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at Yale, followed by fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. He subsequently joined the tenure-line academic faculty of NYU School of Medicine, with simultaneous appointments to the research faculty of Geisinger Health and the clinical faculty of Bellevue Hospital. From 2011-2014, he served as the Commissioner of Health for New York State. During his tenure the state Medicaid program realized large savings for taxpayers while improving the quality and accessibility of the Medicaid program for over 5M New Yorkers. Subsequently, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Clinical Operations at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, during which time the enterprise advanced its international leadership in quality, held rate increases below CPI, and generated record revenue.

Dr. Shah is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a recipient of the American College of Physicians’ Laureate award, the Citizens Budget Commission’s Prize for Public Service Innovation, the HHS Health Data Consortium’s Inaugural Data Liberation award, and Yale School of Public Health’s Distinguished Alumni award. In 2020 he was recognized as one of the 100 US leaders most responsible for “re-imagining and re-humanizing our care system” among the ‘Care 100.’ His work is routinely published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and has been featured in the New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and NPR.

Dr. Shah’s current service includes as a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), as an independent director for STERIS plc, as a trustee of the John A. Hartford Foundation, as Board Chairman for Linux Foundation Public Health, and as a member of the RAND Health Advisory Board. His federal service includes membership in the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, service on the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee (Healthy People 2030) and numerous committees of the National Academy of Medicine.