Ronak Shah, MD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
My education and training
- Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Anesthesiology, 2016
- American Society of Anesthesiologists, National
- American Society of Echocardiography, National
- Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Trevor Chan, Shir Goldfinger, Rachel Hannah Grasfield, Vikram Eswar, David Barreto, John G Augoustides, Vivian Yan, Ronak M Shah, Alison M Pouch, Emily J MacKay Proof-of-Concept Automated Framework for Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography: View Classification and Biventricular Function Assessment , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 40 (5): 2026,1339-1348
Brown MA, Shah R, Shin M, Toubat O, Szeto WY, Ibrahim ME. Use of contrast-enhanced echocardiography to confirm endo-aortic balloon placement in robotic mitral valve surgery , JTCVS, 29: 2024,15-17
Fotios Pitoulis, Blanca Pamias-Lopez, Charlie Fraser, Akhil Rao, Lisa Mangino-Blanchard, William Vernick, Ronak Shah, Jeremy Kukafka, Audrey Spelde, Michael Acker, Wilson Szeto, Michael Ibrahim Transaortic TAVR and Mitral Repair Under Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest in a Porcelain Aorta Patient , JACC Case Reports , 29(1): 2023
Pitoulis F, Pamias-Lopez B, Fraser C, Rao A, Mangino-Blanchard L, Vernick W, Shah R, Kukafka J, Spelde A, Acker M, Szeto W, Ibrahim M. Transaortic TAVR and Mitral Repair Under Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest in a Porcelain Aorta Patient. , JACC: Case Reports , 29: 2023,1
Contributing author to chapter 24 - Ronak Shah, MD Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia 8th Edition Chapter 24 Electrophysiology Procedures , KAPLAN'S CARDIAC ANESTHESIA 8th EDITION : 2023
MacKay EJ, Zhang B, Shah RM, Augoustides JG, Groeneveld PW, Desai ND Predictors of Intraoperative Echocardiography: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database , The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , 115(5): 2023,1289-1295
A. Lafontant, E.M. Gabrielli, K. Bergonzi, R.M. Forti, T.S. Ko, R.M. Shah, J.S. Arkles, D.J. Licht, A.G. Yodh, W.A. Kofke, B.R. White, W.B. Baker Comparison of optical measurements of critical closing pressure acquired before and during induced ventricular arrhythmia in adults , Neurophotonics in press, 2022.: 2022
Juan IC, Poorsattar SP, Banks DA, O'Brien EO, Fernando RJ, Addis D, Augoustides JG, Shah RM, Thistlethwaite PA. The Anterior Mediastinal Mass-the Challenging Management of Hypoxemia Despite Peripheral Cannulation for ECMO , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia , Epublication(Epublication ): 2021
Jason Ochroch, Asad Usman, Jesse Kiefer, Danielle Pulton, Ro Shah, Taras Grosh, Saumil Patel, William Vernick, Jacob T Gutsche, Jesse Raiten Reducing Opioid Use in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery - Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Critical Care Strategies , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 35(7): 2021,2155-2165
Ochroch J, Usman A, Kiefer J, Pulton D, Shah R, Grosh T, Patel S, Vernick W, Gutsche JT, Raiten J Reducing Opioid Use in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery - Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Critical Care Strategies , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia , 35(7): 2021,2155-2165