Bina Shah, MD

Bina Shah, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital.

She received her medical degree and pediatric residency training from Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai, India.  She undertook further learning in pediatrics and neonatology in United Kingdom and received Membership at the Royal College of Physicians, UK. She then completed pediatric residency at Icahn School of Medicine and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Shah has worked as Associate Professor, Pediatrics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health and Bellevue Hospital Center for past 21 years, as Pediatric Endocrinologist. She has also been Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship program director for 12 years. She has vast clinical experience in treating wide range of endocrinology disorders such as growth, puberty, adrenal, ovarian, obesity disorders. Dr. Shah’s research has focused on polycystic ovarian syndrome in adolescents, thyroid cancer in children and adolescents, congenital hypothyroidism, growth and pubertal disorders, Turner syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and challenging endocrine cases in pediatrics. In addition to her clinical and research work, she has mentored many trainees and has been very passionate about teaching them. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology.

Why I chose to be Pediatric Endocrinologist?

Endocrinology is an area that deals with all the body systems. The field of Pediatric Endocrinology represents the medical specialty with the enigmatic challenges of connecting the knowledge of biochemistry, cell biology, physiology and apply logic of pathways to clinical scenarios. As a practicing pediatric endocrinologist, I experienced that this field is very rewarding while being a ‘detective’. This means taking time to go through medical records, physical exam, ordering diagnostic tests and finally diagnosing and appropriately managing individual case. This also included the ability to work with children and their families over many years and get to see them well. I was very fortunate to receive Pediatric Endocrinology fellowship training at NYU Langone Health/Bellevue Hospital Center under the mentorship of Dr. Raphael David (A founding member of the Pediatric Endocrine Society). Under his guidance, I started my career as a faculty member at NYU Langone health and continued this journey over two decades taking care of children with complex endocrine disorders, performed research and continued to be involved in teaching the trainees.

 

Clinical Focus:

• Congenital Hypothyroidism
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
• Diabetes Insipidus
• Delayed Puberty
• Growth Failure
• Growth Hormone Deficiency
• Obesity
• Panhypopituitarism
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Precocious Puberty
• Rickets
• Thyroid Diseases
• Turner Syndrome
• Vitamin D Deficiency