Reshma Shah, MD, MPH,

Principal Investigator
reshmamd@uic.edu

Dr. Shah is a physician-scientist, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and a practicing Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Shah’s research aims to improve educational and developmental disparities with a health equity focus.

Dr. Shah received her MD from Wayne State College of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She trained with Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and Lurie Children's/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine pediatric residency programs and developmental and behavioral fellowship program at University of Chicago. She currently heads a clinical research lab which incorporates behavioral intervention design and implementation science to develop, implement, and evaluate a community-clinical linkage model to increase equitable access to educational and therapeutic services that promote developmental skills and contribute to improved health outcomes for both children and their families. A primary objective of her lab is to also create accessible and sustainable strategies supporting early childhood development (ECD) in healthcare settings serving predominantly low-income communities, both domestically and internationally.

Dr. Shah is a Fellow at the Institute for Health Research and Policy and Associate Director of Global Pediatrics at the UIC Center for Global Health. She was selected by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to be the ECD Project Technical Advisor where she has been working with Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA) to support health care initiatives and policy work in Kenyan communities and national health care systems to support ECD. She serves as the co-chair for the Illinois Chapter of American Academy of Pediatric Early Childhood Committee and co-chairs the Advisory Board for the Chicago Children’s Museum.