Amish Shah

Amish Shah has three adopted cats, including one called Cousin Oliver, and spends some of his time away from medicine playing basketball and flying small airplanes.¹ He grew up in Chicago, the son of engineering students who immigrated from India, and attended Catholic schools before heading to Northwestern University.²

Shah earned his economics and medical degrees at Northwestern, followed by a public health master's degree at the University of California, Berkeley.² His medical career has included emergency departments, teaching at Mount Sinai and leading the New York Jets' airway management team, along with sports medicine training at the University of Arizona.²

Outside the hospital, he founded the Arizona Vegetarian Food Festival to promote healthier eating.² He won three state House elections, serving five years and concentrating on public health, teacher pay and small businesses, according to his campaign's account of his legislative work.¹

His congressional priorities include lowering prescription costs, protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and preserving abortion access and patients' authority over medical decisions.¹ He faces Republican Jay Feely for an open House seat that could help determine the chamber's majority, a matchup pairing a former Jets sideline doctor with a former Jets kicker.³⁴