Amit J. Shah was born in Lexington, KY, USA, in 1979. He received the A.B. degree in physics with certificate in biophysics from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, in 2002, and the M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Phildelphia, PA, USA, in 2006. He then completed internal medicine training in 2009 with Albert Einstein Montefiore, and completed the clinical cardiology training in 2013 with Emory University. He completed the Masters of Science in Clinical Research in 2011 at Emory University. He is the recipient of many institutional and international research awards, including the Curtis Carl Johnson Award for the Best Student Poster Presentation at the18th Annual International Bioelectromagnetics Society Conference. His current research interests include electrocardiographic signal processing, cardiac risk prediction, autonomic function, cardiac electrophysiology, and mind-body interactions.