Raj Shah

Dr. Raj Shah is a practicing cardiologist and entrepreneur based in Philadelphia. He is senior attending and Chief of Nuclear Cardiology at St. Mary Medical Center. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Temple and Drexel University faculties. He is pioneer in the field of telemedicine and the creator of SmartCareDoc telemedicine system which was deployed at “The Clinic at Wal-Mart” in 2012-14: The first telemedicine clinic in retail store in America. He established TeleRetinopathy screening program at the Temple University Health System in 2016 and a teaching Teleclinic at the School of Nursing at Rutgers University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center at Rutgers University for the study of Pharmaceutical Management and Healthcare and lectures about Telemedicine. He is member of the Advisory Board of Kean University College of Business and Public Management and Global Business School.

Dr. Shah is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT angiography. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians. He received his medical degree with distinction from the M.S. University in Baroda, India, and graduate training in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shah received a Master of Business Administration with Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma honors in 1997.