Zarine Shah, MD

About Me

Zarine Shah is Associate Professor of Radiology at the Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center also serving as Vice Chair for Diversity Equity and Inclusion for the department since 2020. She is fellowship trained in abdominal imaging and nuclear medicine and has been faculty at Ohio State since 2009. Her area of clinical focus is abdominal imaging with specific interest in hepato-biliary and pancreatic disorders and MRI imaging of the prostate and bladder. She has active clinical research collaboration with colleagues in pancreatology and serves as co-investigator and site radiologist for multi-institutional trails for acute and chronic pancreatitis. She is active on the national disease focused panels for Chronic Pancreatitis and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction through the Society of Abdominal Radiology. She is an invited lecturer for international organizations and has provided didactic lectures for the Radiology Education Foundation and Health4TheWorld lecture series. During her tenure at OSU she served as the inaugural Clinical Director of MRI services for Radiology, providing oversight for MRI services across the medical center and all its imaging facilities. During this time an MRI quality assurance initiative was set up and remains active, providing ongoing quality improvement training and oversight and including educational interactions between radiologists and MRI technologists. In addition to her clinical and research interests, she is also a strong advocate for workplace diversity and equity and has been a member of the Women in Medicine and Science committee at the College of Medicine since this organization was formed in 2014, serving as Associate Director since 2020 and currently serving as interim Director of Women’s Academic Advancement. She is also a member of the President and Provost’s Council on Women (PPCW), an organization of staff and faculty women at the level of the university. She has taken on leadership responsibility with the PPCW and is currently Chair-elect for the PPCW. She is a graduate of the Faculty Leadership Institute (2019-2020) and is engaged in leadership training as part of the current cohort on the President and Provost’s Leadership Institute (2021-2022). Zarine lives in Dublin with her husband Ketul and kids Aakash, Sanaya and Zeke (furry baby).

Additional Languages I Speak

• Gujarati
• Hindi

Procedures and Conditions I Treat

• Diagnostic Imaging