Neeral Shah is an Associate Professor of GI and Hepatology at the University of Virginia. He completed a Chemical Engineering and Biomedical engineering degrees from Cornell University, medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and internal medicine residency at George Washington University. He then completed a GI fellowship at Lahey Clinic and a transplant Hepatology fellowship at the University of Virginia where he joined faculty in 2008. He is currently the GI fellowship program director. Within GI, he serves on the Education and Training committee for the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and is the Chair of the Communication and Technology Committee for the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). He is currently a co-editor for the Red Section in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, and a co-editor of the board review DDSEP resource. In medical education, Dr. Shah is the Director of the Academy for Excellence in Education and the Co-Chair for the national Academies Collaborative at the American Association for Medical Colleges (AAMC).