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Chirag Shah, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital
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"Rhino-orbito-cerebral Mucormycosis," Chirag Shah, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital"Age-Related Eye Diseases Study (AREDS): Past Findings and Current Efforts, and How it Relates to Public Health."
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Chirag Shah, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital
Dr. Chirag Shah's interest in international ophthalmology developed from his background in public health.While at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Dr. Shah worked with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and their women's health cooperative in Ahmedabad, India.He has also completed a medical trek in the Ladahki Himalayas and helped design a novel health surveillance system in Costa Rica.After earning a masters in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, he collaborated with Rochester's Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired to design an outreach project aimed at improving the visual health of Latinos.This project won a National Eye Health Education Program grant.In 2003, Dr. Shah was one of twenty-five medical students across the country to be awarded the American Medical Association Leadership Award.Dr. Shah completed an internal medicine internship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and is currently training in ophthalmology at the Wills Eye Hospital.