Dr. Pooja Shah

Dr. Pooja Shah

MBBS, MD –General medicine, DM –Infectious Diseases

  • Infectious Diseases

D.M, ID (Doctor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases) M.D, General Medicine (Doctor of Medicine in General Medicine) MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery)

  • YEARS OF PRACTICE: 8 years
  • GENDER: Female
  • LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
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Biography

Dr. Pooja Shah is a skilled and dedicated infectious diseases specialist with extensive clinical, research and teaching experience. She employs her knowledge and skills to provide evidence based medical care to her patients, inculcate scientific temper in her students and contribute to pertinent, practice-changing research in her speciality. Her alma mater include GSMC and KEMH (MBBS), LTMMC/Sion hospital (MD medicine) and CMC Vellore (DM infectious diseases). She has also completed the International tropical medicine certificate course in tropical medicine supported by the Haukeland University, Norway(UK). She is a visiting Infectious Diseases consultant at several reputed institutes in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai including Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (Koperkhairne), Medicover Hospital (Kharghar), Fortis Hospital (Vashi). She serves as a regular faculty at international courses funded by the US National Institute of Health (NIH) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) among others. She has been invited as subject expert to present her research work and deliver talks at numerous national and international conferences. She is also a member of varied Infectious Diseases forums including CIDS- Clinical Infectious Diseases Society of India and ESCMID – European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. She has more than 8 years of experience in dealing with complicated, recurrent, atypical and severe infections.

My Mantra

what’s your philosophy, what do you live by, What keeps you going.

AREA(S) OF INTEREST:

  • Fever of unknown origin (FUO)
  • Multidrug resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens (ICU infections)
  • Complicated and drug resistant TB
  • Immunodeficiency disorders
  • Infections in immunocompromised hosts including transplant and chemotherapy related cases
  • Seasonal fever (eg: dengue, malaria, typhoid, leptospirosis, rickettsial diseases, influenza, COVID-19)
  • Post-surgical and hospital acquired infections
  • HIV and sexually transmitted infections
  • Non-resolving pneumonia
  • Recurrent urinary tract and vaginal infections
  • Osteomyelitis (including diabetic foot) and prosthetic joint infection
  • Meningitis, brain abscess, empyema
  • Adult vaccination
  • Pre-travel guidance and counselling

PROCEDURES PERFORMED:

  • OPD and IP consultation

NAME OF INSTITUTE(S):

    • March 2025 — Doctorate of Medicine in Infectious Diseases (D.M, ID)
      Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH), Vellore
      The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai
    • May 2020 — Doctor of Medicine in General Medicine (M.D, General Medicine)
      Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & Hospital, Mumbai
      Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik
    • March 2016 — Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
      Seth G.S Medical College & King Edward Memorial Hospital (GSMC & KEM), Mumbai
      Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik

FELLOWSHIPS:

    • Successful use of investigational antibiotic cefepime-zidebactam (WCK 5222) in deep-seated difficult-to-treat infections due to extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Global Journal of Antimicrobial Resistance
    • Authored book chapter on 'Approach to fungal infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients' in CIDS Update book 2025
    • Authored book chapter on 'Approach to malaria diagnosis' in CIDS Update book 2025
    • Development and validation of a pentaplex PCR assay for rapid detection of blaCTX-M, blaOXA–1, blaCMY, blaNDM and the PBP3 insert in Enterobacterales
    • Timing and phenotype of cerebral infarction after anti-tubercular therapy: Implications for stroke prevention trials in Tuberculous meningitis - accepted manuscript in Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2026)
  • 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases-ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark. Presented a poster on 'Ten-year old cicatrising chest wall lesion with multiple discharging sinuses and lung infiltration' (April 2023)
  • 33rd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT 2023), Kolkata, India. Presented a podium presentation on recurrent graft pyelonephritis (Oct 2023)
  • 2nd ADVANCE-ID network symposium by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and National University of Singapore, February 2025. Presented a poster on 'Impact of colistin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) on 30-day mortality in blood stream infections caused by colistin susceptible, carbapenem resistant gram negative bacteria' (Feb 2025)
  • 17TH National Conference of AIDS Society of India (ASICON), Invited as Faculty for a debate on 'Long-acting v/s conventional anti-retroviral therapy' (March 2026)
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases Society (CIDS) CME, Invited as Faculty speaker on vaccination in recipients of stem cell transplant and CAR-T therapy (October 2025)
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases Society (CIDS) CME, Invited as Faculty speaker on approach to sepsis (Feb 2026)
  • ICCARe Perceptorship (ISCCM Course to Combat Anti-microbial Resistance) program at Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Invited as Faculty speaker on approach to gram positive and fungal infections in ICU (Feb 2026)
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases Society (CIDS) CME, Invited as Faculty speaker on approach to vaccination and post-exposure prophylaxis in health care workers (Nov 2025)
  • 4th Infectious Diseases (ID) CONCLAVE, P.D. Hinduja Hospital, Invited as Faculty speaker on atypical infections (April 2026)
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