Dr. Nishant Shah

Nishant Shah, MD, is a cardiologist specializing in preventive cardiology. He serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Hospital and is a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Clinically, Dr. Shah focuses on cardiovascular prevention, cardiometabolic risk reduction, and advanced lipid management. His research centers on lipid disorders and therapeutics, cardiovascular outcomes in prevention, and digital health–enabled remote monitoring models. Dr. Shah co-chairs the American College of Cardiology’s Cardiometabolic Prevention working group, chairs the American Society of Preventive Cardiology’s early career and fellow-in-training workgroup, and serves on the American Heart Association Outpatient Advisory Committee. At Duke, he leads the health system’s Remote Lipid Monitoring Program and is associate program director of the cardiovascular medicine fellowship. He is also a board member for the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Shah earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, completed internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a cardiovascular fellowship at Cleveland Clinic.