Dr. Nigam H. Shah is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Shah researches methods of using machine learning, text-mining, and medical ontologies to learn medical evidence from unstructured clinical data. He teaches a graduate class on data-driven medicine. Dr. Shah holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University, USA and completed post-doctoral training at the Stanford Medical School in 2007.