Roshan P. Shah, MD, JD, specializes in hip and knee reconstruction using minimally invasive techniques for less pain and faster recovery times. During surgery, Dr. Shah embraces meticulous surgical techniques with attention to the biological, anatomical, and mechanical restoration that is critical for a pain-free return of function.  Dr. Shah aims to provide a pain-free recovery, to allow a speedier return to normal life.

Dr. Shah is also Director of Complex Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction at Columbia University.  In this capacity, he has fixed problems for patients from across the United States and abroad, finding solutions that stump others. 

Dr. Shah is Director of the Adult Reconstruction fellowship training program, and also an active researcher.  He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, textbook chapters, and editorials, in addition to giving more than 40 scientific presentations. Previously, he was editor of the University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal and the Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy, and Ethics. He was also an associate editor for the Stanford Law and Policy Review.

Dr. Shah has been honored with multiple research awards, including 1st place at the Orthopaedic Research and Education Fund/Orthopaedic Research Society symposium, 2nd place at the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Research Symposium, the AO Kathryn Cramer Award, and the University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal Resident Recognition Award. He holds one provisional patent application for a patient safety device innovation.

As a health policy fellow for both the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, Dr. Shah advocates for policies that serve patients, improve access to care, and support research and innovation. He has spoken to groups in Washington, D.C about FDA regulatory issues and innovation within orthopedic surgery.

A native of Camden, New York, he earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College, with additional concentrations in philosophy and public policy. He received his doctor of medicine degree from Yale University and his juris doctor degree from Stanford University. He was a resident in orthopedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the DeForest Willard Award for outstanding performance as an orthopedic senior resident and the Marvin E. Steinberg, MD Award in Adult Reconstruction for outstanding work in the field of adult reconstruction surgery. He also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship (in the field of tissue engineering for orthopaedic surgery applications) at the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory. Before joining ColumbiaDoctors, he completed a fellowship in Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction at Rush University in Chicago. Following fellowship, he studied principles of hip reconstruction at the birthplace of modern total hip replacements, the Charnley Centre for Hip Surgery in Wrightington, England.