Vinil Shah, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Shah received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania and completed a one-year internship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 2007. Dr. Shah did his Radiology residency from 2007-2011 at UCSF, serving as chief resident in 2010. From 2011-2013, he completed a clinical fellowship and a Chief fellowship in Neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. From 2013-2014, Dr. Shah was a clinical fellow in Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention at the same institution. In August 2014, Dr. Shah accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology in Neuroradiology at UCSF.

Dr. Shah’s research interests include studying spinal imaging biomarkers to help guide intervention and assessing clinical outcomes of spine intervention. Other interests include structured reporting, teaching, and radiology curricula development.

Expertise: Neuroradiology

Specialty: Spine Radiology, Spine Intervention

Professional Interests: Spine pain management, MR neurography, MRI of brachial plexus, thoracic outlet syndrome, stroke, brain tumors

Education and Training:

• Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA
• Internship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• Residency: University of California, San Francisco
• Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA – Neuroradiology & Musculoskeletal Radiology
• Chief Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA – Neuroradiology
• Medical License California, Massachusetts
• American Board of Radiology Certificate in Diagnostic Radiology
• Neuroradiology Certificate of Added Qualification

• Unusual neuroimaging findings in spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
  Neuroradiology 2023 Callen AL, Dillon WP, Shah VN
• Brain herniation (encephalocele) into arachnoid granulations: prevalence and association with pulsatile tinnitus and idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
  Neuroradiology 2022 Smith ER, Caton MT, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Remer J, Eisenmenger LB, Baker A, Shah VN, Tu-Chan A, Meisel K, Amans MR
• ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Suspected Spine Infection.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2021 Expert Panel on Neurological Imaging, Ortiz AO, Levitt A, Shah LM, Parsons MS, Agarwal V, Baldwin K, Bhattacharyya S, Boulter DJ, Burns J, Fink KR, Hunt CH, Hutchins TA, Kao LS, Khan MA, Lo BM, …
• Cerebrospinal fluid-lymphatic fistula causing spontaneous intracranial hypotension in a child with kaposiform lymphangiomatosis.
  Pediatric radiology 2021 Soderlund KA, Mamlouk MD, Shah VN, Roland JL, Dillon WP
• ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Myelopathy: 2021 Update.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2021 Expert Panel on Neurological Imaging, Agarwal V, Shah LM, Parsons MS, Boulter DJ, Cassidy RC, Hutchins TA, Kendi AT, Khan MA, Liebeskind DS, Moritani T, Ortiz AO, Reitman C, Shah VN, Snyder LA, …
• Cerebrospinal Fluid-Venous Fistulas: A Systematic Review and Examination of Individual Patient Data.
  Neurosurgery 2021 Shlobin NA, Shah VN, Chin CT, Dillon WP, Tan LA
• The Reliability of a Grading System for Digital Subtraction Imaging Quality During Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2020 Binler D, House LM, Mattie R, Saltychev M, Nagao M, Pekmeczi M, Metz L, O'Neil C, Shah V, McCormick ZL
• Cone Beam Tomosynthesis: An Emerging Technology for Procedural Image Guidance.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2020 Conger A, Shah L, Shah V, McCormick Z
• Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension With Brain Sagging Attributable to a Cerebrospinal Fluid-Venous Fistula.
  JAMA neurology 2020 Shah VN, Dillon WP
• Venous sinus stenting as a treatment approach in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension and encephaloceles.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2020 Drocton GT, Copelan A, Eisenmenger L, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Dillon WP, Shah VN, Meisel K, Amans M
• Foraminal Origin of the Dorsal Scapular Nerve: An Anatomical Study.
  World neurosurgery 2020 Jack AS, Shah V, Jacques LG
• Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Fixation With Indirect Decompression by Ligamentotaxis in Pathological Fractures.
  Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) 2020 Safaee MM, Shah V, Tenorio A, Uribe JS, Clark AJ
• Recurrent non-canonical histone H3 mutations in spinal cord diffuse gliomas.
  Acta neuropathologica 2019 Sloan EA, Cooney T, Oberheim Bush NA, Buerki R, Taylor J, Clarke JL, Torkildson J, Kline C, Reddy A, Mueller S, Banerjee A, Butowski N, Chang S, Mummaneni PV, Chou D, Tan L, Theodosopoulos P, …
• Quantitative [18F]-Naf-PET-MRI Analysis for the Evaluation of Dynamic Bone Turnover in a Patient with Facetogenic Low Back Pain.
  Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2019 Jenkins NW, Iriondo C, Shah V, Bahroos E, Ravanfar V, Regan M, Seo Y, Dillon WP, Majumdar S, Talbott JF
• Practical applications of CISS MRI in spine imaging.
  European journal of radiology open 2019 Li Z, Chen YA, Chow D, Talbott J, Glastonbury C, Shah V
• Postoperative Spine: What the Surgeon Wants to Know.
  Radiologic clinics of North America 2019 Eisenmenger L, Clark AJ, Shah VN
• Computed tomography-based 3D modeling to provide custom 3D-printed glasses for children with craniofacial abnormalities.
  Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 2019 Brodie FL, Nattagh K, Shah V, Swarnakar V, Lin S, Kelil T, Gillan D, Romero D, de Alba Campomanes AG
• Efficacy of using a 3D printed lumbosacral spine phantom in improving trainee proficiency and confidence in CT-guided spine procedures.
  3D printing in medicine 2018 Li Y, Li Z, Ammanuel S, Gillan D, Shah V
• Imaging-Based Approach to Extradural Infections of the Spine.
  Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR 2018 Talbott JF, Shah VN, Uzelac A, Narvid J, Dumont RA, Chin CT, Wilson DM
• Brachioradial pruritus treated with computed tomography-guided cervical nerve root block: A case series.
  JAAD case reports 2018 Weinberg BD, Amans M, Deviren S, Berger T, Shah V
• Objective Technical Considerations for Appropriate Digital Subtraction Imaging During Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2018 McCormick ZL, Shah VN
• Long-Term Effectiveness of Direct CT-Guided Aspiration and Fenestration of Symptomatic Lumbar Facet Synovial Cysts.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2017 Shah VN, von Fischer ND, Chin CT, Yuh EL, Amans MR, Dillon WP, Hess CP
• Anatomical features of the cervical spinal canal in Chiari I deformity with presyrinx: A case-control study.
  The neuroradiology journal 2017 Gadde JA, Shah V, Liebo GB, Ringstad GA, Pomeraniec IJ, Bakke SJ, Fric R, Ksendzovsky A, Jane JA, Schwartz ES, Haughton V
• Magnetic resonance neurography in the diagnosis of neuropathies of the lumbosacral plexus: a pictorial review.
  Clinical imaging 2016 Robbins NM, Shah V, Benedetti N, Talbott JF, Chin CT, Douglas VC
• An Imaging-Based Approach to Spinal Cord Infection.
  Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR 2016 Talbott JF, Narvid J, Chazen JL, Chin CT, Shah V
• Cervical spinal canal narrowing in idiopathic syringomyelia.
  Neuroradiology 2016 Struck AF, Carr CM, Shah V, Hesselink JR, Haughton VM
• Optimal brain MRI protocol for new neurological complaint.
  PloS one 2014 Mehan WA, González RG, Buchbinder BR, Chen JW, Copen WA, Gupta R, Hirsch JA, Hunter GJ, Hunter S, Johnson JM, Kelly HR, Larvie M, Lev MH, Pomerantz SR, Rapalino O, Rincon S, Romero JM, Schaefer PW, …
• Clinician-educator pathway for radiology residents.
  Academic radiology 2011 Naeger DM, Phelps A, Shah V, Avrin D, Qayyum A
• F-18 FDG PET/CT findings in postradiation pelvic insufficiency fracture.
  Clinical imaging 2011 Salavati A, Shah V, Wang ZJ, Yeh BM, Costouros NG, Coakley FV
• Sonographically guided percutaneous needle tenotomy for treatment of common extensor tendinosis in the elbow: is a corticosteroid necessary?
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2008 McShane JM, Shah VN, Nazarian LN
• Oncocytoma of the parotid gland: a potential false-positive finding on 18F-FDG PET.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2007 Shah VN, Branstetter BF