Samir A. Shah, MD, FACG, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Chief of Gastroenterology at the Miriam Hospital, and a partner with Gastroenterology Associates Inc., powered by the GI Alliance in Providence, RI. Dr. Shah earned his BA in Biochemistry magna cum laude at Brown, and his MD at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He did a residency in Internal Medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and stayed on for a fellowship in Gastroenterology, where he was awarded a Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellowship for Physicians and spent two years in the laboratory studying murine models of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Shah is the recipient of Brown University's Teaching Recognition Award, The Dean's Teaching Excellence Certificate, Brown University's Excellence in Teaching Award for Clinical Faculty, the Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching, the ACG's Freshman Governor's Award, and the William D. Carey Award. The New England Chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America named him Humanitarian of the Year for 2009 and a co-recipient of the Joan Cutler Lifetime achievement award in 2020. In 2023, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the DDNC. Rhode Island Monthly magazine consistently names him among the Top Doctors in Rhode Island. He serves as the Physician Lead for his groups' participation in IBD QORUS, is a Past President of the Digestive Diseases National Coalition (DDNC), faculty for the ACG's online IBD Circle, faculty for the weekly IBD Live sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic, and a Past President of the ACG. He has participated in several multi-center clinical trials of cutting-edge therapies for IBD and was co-principle investigator for OSCCAR (Ocean State Crohn's and Colitis Area Registry).