About Dr. Shah

Mona Shah, MD, MPH, DipABLM is a double-boarded physician specializing in both general preventive medicine and public health and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Shah received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Abington Memorial Hospital and then residency in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Shah also serves as an assistant professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.

Her experience includes working as a Medical Officer at the World Health Organization (WHO) on the IMAI team in Geneva, Switzerland initially in 2004, in the scale up of the HIV care/ART clinical training program in Uganda, and later as a technical consultant for WHO in several areas: chronic HIV care/ART, emergency/severely ill (non-ICU) patient care, non-communicable diseases, patient monitoring, and health system capacity planning. 

Dr. Shah also served as a senior physician in Primary Care and later in the TB Control Program at the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County. Her passion in global health continues as one of the founders of the IMAI Alliance, a non-profit organization established in 2010, whose focus is on health system strengthening in resource-limited settings. She is the Director of Operations as well as the clinical lead for the non-communicable disease (NCD) program. More recently, she has worked as the course director for the WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO) clinical training program in providing an algorithmic approach to caring for patients with severe respiratory distress and sepsis in non-specialized hospital settings and as a technical consultant to SEARO in health system oxygen planning.

As a preventive medicine physician, Dr. Shah’s interest in health especially in resource-limited settings has led her to a deep interest in the role of health and health care in different parts of the world and lifestyle medicine as a field and as a practitioner. Even in a resource-abundant country, such as the U.S., the burden of chronic disease remains high in the face of various health system challenges. Through this journey, she has explored the importance of nutrition, movement, sleep, role of stress, and social connection to our health and wellness.  This has led her to pursue further education in health coaching and lifestyle medicine with the goal to support patients where they are on their own health journey on an individual basis.