Dr. Shah is Assistant Professor of psychiatry and the Medical Director of Child, Adolescent & Family Services at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with dual board certification in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. She co-chairs the Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics working group, serves on the Mount Sinai IRB, and has published on issues of pediatric research ethics. Her academic focus in pediatric research ethics is informed consent and physician perspectives around medical decision-making as they interface with innovative medicine, developmental disability, and family complexity particular in pediatric gene therapy trials.