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Dr. Amit Shah

Senior PartnerWashington DC

Dr. Amit Shah

Senior PartnerWashington DC

Partners with healthcare leaders to transform mission impact and margin performance

Amit serves private and public healthcare organizations on strategy, healthcare value, and large-scale performance transformations. He leads McKinsey’s work on cultivating excellent physician CEOs and the firm’s global healthcare affordability efforts.

Driven by a passion for lasting change, Amit partners with healthcare executives to transform their personal leadership, mission building, and performance—helping them advance patient care and achieve sustainable financial outcomes.

He has advised large publicly traded healthcare companies, high-growth healthcare services firms, nonprofit health systems and insurers, and public sector health agencies.

Published work

How physicians can become excellent CEOs,” Medical Economics, October 2025

Physician perspectives on scaling impact from the CEO seat,” McKinsey & Company, October 2025

The next specialty: The physician CEO,” McKinsey & Company, June 2025

How price transparency could affect US healthcare markets,” McKinsey & Company, April 2024

Improving US orthopedic care via patient-centric pathways,” McKinsey & Company, September 2023

From facility to home: How healthcare could shift by 2025,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022

Education

University of Pennsylvania
MD

The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
MBA, healthcare management

Harvard University
AB, economics