Mayo Clinic has selected Vijay Shah, MD, as its Kinney Executive Dean of Research.
Dr. Shah currently serves as chair of internal medicine for the Rochester Minn.-based clinic, and is the Carol M. Gatton Professor of Digestive Diseases Research, according to a Dec. 20 news release. He is also a consultant with joint appointments in gastroenterology and hepatology, as well as physiology and biomedical engineering. For 25 years, Dr. Shah has maintained National Institutes for Health-funded programs at the clinic related to advanced liver disease.
He succeeds Gregory Gores, MD, who held the title for 10 years, and will assume his new role Feb. 1.