Dr. Kandarp Shah

Dr. Shah has 30+ years of experience with much deeper understanding of evolution of diagnostic and treatment modalities. He has performed thousands of painless colonoscopies for his patients. He has removed thousands of small and big polyps and prevented colorectal cancer. He has made his mark as a very highly skilled, but cautious endoscopist giving his best to his patients. His focus is his patients and not on just performing procedures.

He is admired by his colleagues and trainees for the highest level of endoscopic skills and for his dedications to his patients. His procedural skills have been recognized by major governmental institutions such as VAMC and national non-governmental organizations such as Kaiser with whom he has had years long relations.

His depth of knowledge related to digestive issues have helped patients avoid unnecessary expenses. Marketing by industry affects thinking processes unless they are firmed rooted on the solid ground of facts, experience and detailed knowledge of diseases. Several academic institutions in the country including Michigan State University and University of California San Francisco-Fresno have used his clinical skills to shape the thinking of the next generation of doctors including gastroenterologists.

Dr. Shah has 25+ years of experience in the field of gastroenterology. She brings to the team  a much wider view and experience in the medical field. Besides in-office evaluation of gastrointestinal problems in the office, she has expertise in office-based simple, but crucial diagnostic tests. Some of these tests are the standard of care, but they are skipped in many GI practices, because of unavailability of an experienced provider to perform them in the office.   She has not only studied clinical medicine, but also studied what happens in the body at the level of tissues and at cell level with different diseases. 

Dr. Kalyani Shah has special interest in common conditions more prevalent in females and not addressed fully by some of the providers. The female physiology and anatomy are somewhat different in the organs affected by some of these conditions. For example, constipation, soiling and bloating are quite common in females. After taking expensive medicines, when patients do not get better, many accept these problems as a part of life. One does not have to.

Dr. Kalyani Shah comes from an Ayurvedic medicine family background. She has a much better understanding of how non-drug interventions can preserve health and help common conditions which do not respond to 'modern medicines'.