Lesha Shah, MD
About Me
Lesha D. Shah MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry committed to mentorship of medical students, residents and fellows with in interest in assessment across the UME-GME continuum. Dr. Shah’s primary academic focus is on research ethics and physician perspectives around medical decision-making for children and adolescents. She studies issues of consent and capacity as they interface with family complexity and innovative medicine including clinical trials and investigational drugs. She Co-Chairs the Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics working group, is assistant editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and serves on the Institutional Review Board at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Shah has published on issues related to medical ethics in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Bioethics.
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About Me
Lesha D. Shah MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry committed to mentorship of medical students, residents and fellows with in interest in assessment across the UME-GME continuum. Dr. Shah’s primary academic focus is on research ethics and physician perspectives around medical decision-making for children and adolescents. She studies issues of consent and capacity as they interface with family complexity and innovative medicine including clinical trials and investigational drugs. She Co-Chairs the Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics working group, is assistant editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and serves on the Institutional Review Board at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Shah has published on issues related to medical ethics in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Bioethics.