Research Fellow
South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, Australia
Dr Ranjit Shah was born in India and received early education at St Patrick’s Higher Secondary School, which is one of the 17 Irish Christian Brother schools in India. He finished school with distinctions in English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science at ‘O’ and ‘A’ Level Examinations. He did his preliminary medical training at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, a tertiary level teaching hospital in Calcutta. Here he completed MBBS with First Class in Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Community Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology including Family Planning. After Internship he worked as a Senior House Officer in various departments in India and United Kingdom before migrating to Australia in 2006.
Dr Shah completed Basic Physician Training from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide in 2011 and was awarded the Fellowship of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2014 after completing 3 years of Advanced Cardiology Training at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. During these years of training he was also involved in teaching Interns, Resident Medical Officers and Basic Physician Trainees. He has also been a Sub-Investigator for several multi-centered Clinical Trials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for several years.
He started with a basic science research project during the final year of his Advanced Cardiology Training in 2014 and this continued as PhD, under the guidance of Prof John Horowitz, in 2015. He received Australian Postgraduate Award from The University of Adelaide for that time. His research was centred around the pathogenesis of aortic valve stenosis.
However, his interest in cardiac imaging, especially magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography, led him to change his research area from basic science to clinical cardiac imaging. He is now working on a PhD under the guidance of Prof Joseph Selvanayagam at the Flinders Medical Centre since March 2016. His main research area is in the use of cardiac MRI in understanding the possibility of asymptomatic coronary artery disease in advanced renal failure patients.
Along with his research commitments, Dr Shah is also a Consultant Cardiologist providing service to both metropolitan and country regions in South Australia.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM East Coast USA Time
