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Alpesh Shah, MD

Director of Coronary Interventions, Associate Professor
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States

Dr. Shah was born In India, and after finishing Medical School at Baroda Medical College in 1993, immigrated to USA to pursue advanced medical education and research. He did his Internal Medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center with Albert Einstein Medical College in NewYork from 1993 to 1996. He did his General Cardiology fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital with NewYork Medical College in NewYork from 1996 to 1999. He moved to Houston and did Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Methodist Hospital with Baylor College of Medicine from 1999 to 2000.
He has been involved with several clinical trials advancing new stent design and its wider clinical applications. Currently he is involved in clinical research for the Bioabsorbable stent and Drug Coated Balloon in Coronary arteries. Dr. Shah is an integral part of the Heart Team at Houston Methodist Hospital which continues to look at optimizing outcomes of stenting vs. bypass surgery. He is involved in utilizing Fractional Flow Reserve Measurement as a guiding tool to perform selective coronary interventions in patients with multi vessel disease and comparing it to bypass surgery. He has been and continues to lead clinical research in complex coronary anatomy such as Left main artery stenting, Revascularisation and stenting of Chronic total occlusion and brachytherapy for coronary restenosis. He is also interested in anti platelet therapy and its duration after stenting and its optimization with novel coronary stent designs or anti platelet agents. After leading several trials at Houston Methodist Hospital, he is currently involved in assessing the benefit of stent compared to medical therapy in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, a study which is sponsored by NIH. He also has interest in using Robotic navigation system to perform interventions in Carotid as well as endovascular arterial space

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