DR. TINA SHAH

Dr. Tina Shah has spent her career caring for patients in the ICU, fighting to protect access to care in New Jersey, and leading federal policy. Now, Tina is stepping up once again to protect the people she’s always fought for – her patients, and all Americans failed by a system that puts profits and politics over lives. She’s seen firsthand how rising costs, insurance denials, and political games in Congress hurt hardworking people’s lives and drive good clinicians out of the field. As a doctor, she refuses to stand by while Donald Trump and RFK Jr. gut our healthcare and undermine lifesaving medical research, and career politicians like Tom Kean Jr. do nothing to lower healthcare costs and instead vote to gut Medicaid and ban lifesaving procedures like abortion. Tina is running to restore science and sanity back to Washington – and to make healthcare work for everyone.

Tina is triple board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. As a practicing physician, Tina experienced the crisis of physician burnout and witnessed the toll it took on both patients and doctors. She saw firsthand the failures of the U.S. healthcare system that repeatedly landed patients in her ICU. As a doctor who took an oath to do no harm, Tina knew that meaningful change couldn’t happen solely at the doctor-patient level – or even within a single hospital. So she set out to drive reform at the highest levels.

Tina served under three White House administrations. As Senior Advisor to the U.S. Surgeon General, she spearheaded the nation’s first federal strategy to address clinician burnout, ensuring we have enough nurses and doctors to care for us when we need them most. At the Department of Veterans Affairs, she became the agency’s first National Director of Clinician Wellbeing, improving the efficiency of how doctors use electronic medical records resulting in quickly expanding primary care access for veterans.

And back home in New Jersey, she led a successful campaign to pass legislation to stop insurance companies from denying essential care.

Tina also leveraged private sector innovation to reform healthcare. She became the first Chief Clinical Officer of Abridge, a generative AI company tackling administrative paperwork so that doctors and nurses can focus on caring for their patients. Today, she advises hospitals and investors on how to use AI to improve care quality and streamline care delivery.