The Department of Pathology is thrilled to welcome Niharika Shah, M.D., who will join the Division of Anatomic Pathology as an assistant professor, effective November 1.
Shah joins us from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she was a clinical fellow in thoracic pathology. She completed her residency in anatomic pathology at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health in 2025. Shah completed residency at the Institute of Medicine in Nepal in 2013, after earning her M.B.B.S. degree in 2009. She joined the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal as senior resident and remained to become an assistant professor in pathology in 2014. She served as associate professor from 2018 until 2022.
Shah has authored 14 publications and is part of several professional societies such as the International Academy of Pathologists, European Society of Pathology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.