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Neel Shah is an American physician, Harvard assistant professor, and founder of the nonprofit organizations Costs of Care and March for Moms.
Shah proposed an ethical framework for medicine that includes financial harm to patients under the "do no harm" principle of medical ethics. He is known for collecting essays about instances in which inattention to costs has harmed patients — emulating the patient-safety movement's use of anecdotes about sponges left in abdomens or amputations of the wrong limb.
Shah was featured in a "Doctor and Patient" New York Times column by Pauline Chen for creating the Teaching Value Project, aimed at educating doctors about how their decisions impact what patients pay for care.In 2014, Shah was named one of the "40 smartest people in healthcare" by Becker's Hospital Review.
Shah is married to MIT Professor Julie Shah.He graduated from Brown University, for his bachelors and medical degrees, and Harvard University for his MPP degree.