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Dr. Amit Shah, MD

Senior Partner, Washington DC

Partners with healthcare leaders to transform mission impact and margin performance

About Amit

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 physician CEOs hone the double-edged sword of clinical training,” McKinsey & Company, July 2026

“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