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Dr. Prakeshkumar
Shah
SENIOR
CLINICIAN SCIENTIST
Dr.
Prakeshkumar Shah is a neonatologist and clinical epidemiologist at
Mount Sinai Hospital and Director of the Canadian Neonatal Network and
the International Network for Evaluation of Outcomes of Neonates
(iNeo). He holds the CIHR Canada Applied Research Chair in Reproductive
and Child Health Services and Policy Research.
He earned an MD degree from Gujarat University and an MSc from the
University of Toronto. In 2012 he received the Emerging Leader in
Neonatology Award from the Canadian Pediatric Society, while in 2010 he
received the Glory of India Award and Certificate of Excellence from
the India International Friendship Society.
His research interests include health services research in the
perinatal-neonatal field using international, national and local
databases; patient- and disease-oriented research in neonatal-perinatal
medicine; and knowledge synthesis, involving examining existing
knowledge to identify predictors, therapies and diagnostic tests to
help improve patient outcomes. An overall goal is understanding our
current health services system by refining, re-defining, restructuring
and establishing perinatal health datasets at international, national
and provincial levels to use them in the most efficient and productive
manner, leading to improvement in patient-oriented outcomes.
As head of the iNeo Network he leads a collaboration analyzing data
from 246 NICU’s in nine countries to improve outcomes for very low
birth weight infants. The Canadian Neonatal Network collects detailed
patient level activity on a daily basis and disseminates to users
across Canada for surveillance, benchmarking and quality
improvement.
His contributions have led to refined understanding of predictors of
neonatal complications, improved management of preterm neonates and
identification of factors related to preterm and low birth weight
births.
Dr. Shah has consulted nationally and internationally on many areas
of health care services including pediatric surgery and neonatal
transport initiatives as well as on health technology assessments for
the government of India. He has published more than 240 articles in
peer-reviewed journals.
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