Shah RF. “Artificial Intelligence in Spine: Where are we, and where are we headed? Lessons from other fields.” Cedars Sinai Grand Rounds. June 2025
Shah RF*. “Large Language Models in Spine Surgery.” Symposium. North American Spine Society. September 2025.
Shah RF*. “Computer Vision and Large Language Models in Orthopedics: Trends and Projects of Interest.” Symposium. California Orthopedic Association. May 2024.
Shah RF*, Gardner M, Khan S. “Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Spine Imaging: Promising AI applications in spine imaging and how to incorporate them into your clinical practice.” AAOS 2024. TechTalk
Tretiakov P, Das A, Shah RF*. “Are We Getting Better at Treating Adult Cervical Deformity? Analysis of Complication Rate Trends Over 10 Years.” AAOS 2024.
Shah RF*, Schwab J, Kim J, Oosterhoff J. “Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Applications into the Care Delivery Model: A Practical Guide.” AAOS 2024. Symposium Moderator
Dave P, Shah RF*. “Evolution of Osteotomy Techniques Over Time in Adult Cervical Deformity Surgery: Impact of New Technologies and Techniques on Patient Outcomes”. AAOS 2024
Shah RF*, Jayakumar P. “Transforming the user experience in orthopedic care: How Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, and Digital Phenotyping will Impact the Patient & Provider Experience.” Tech Talk. AAOS 2022.
Shah RF*. “Challenges to the Adoption of AI in Orthopedics. What are the barriers to starting AI projects at your own institution and how to safely incorporate AI products into your practice” AAOS 2022.
Shah RF*. “The use of AI in Predictive Analytics and Implant Design in Joint Arthroplasty. How can AI help joint surgeons in the next 5-10 years?” AAOS 2022.
Shah RF*, Vail TV, Bini S. “The Lateral Femoral Condyle is not Hypoplastic Relative to the Medial Condyle in 6829 Magnetic Resonance Images Irrespective of Gender, Age, or Extent of Arthritis.” UT Austin DSPC. 2022.
Romere C*, Shah RF, Venkat N, Jayakumar PJ. “Evaluating Patient Perceptions of Smart Phone Use for the Active and Passive Collection of Health Data.” UT Austin DSPC. 2022.
Shah RF*, Singh D, Truumees, ET. “Outcomes in Patients with Vertebral Injury after Cervical Spine Trauma.” NASS 2021.
Shah RF*, Ring DR, Jayakumar, PJ. “Predicting Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Upper Extremity Fractures Using Artificial Neural Network.” AAHS 2021.
Shah RF*, Ring DR, Jayakumar, PJ. “Factors Associated with Persistent Opioid Use after an Upper Extremity Fracture.” AAHS 2021.
Shah RF*. “The Future of AI in Modern Surgery.” South by Southwest 2020. Austin, TX.
Shah RF, Bini S, Vail TP*. “Using Natural Language Processing to Collect Coded Info from Patients Undergoing TJA.” The Hip Society 2019
Shah RF, Bini S, Morales A, Pedoia V, Vail TP*. “Incremental Inputs Improve the Automated Detection of Implant Loosening with Machine Learning Algorithms.” The Knee Society 2019
Shah RF*, Manning DW, Bilimoria KY. “Do Hospital Rankings Mislead Patients? Variability in National Rankings for Orthopedic Surgery.” AAOS 2019.
Shah RF*, Manning DW, Bilimoria KY. “Are Online Commercial Ratings of Orthopedic Surgeons Associated with Quality?” AAOS 2019.
Shah RF*, et al. “Readmissions for Surgical Site Infections: A Novel Measure to Guide Hospital Readmission Reduction Efforts.” ACS 2016
Shah RF*, Gupta R. “Video Instruction is More Effective than Written Instruction in Improving Inhaler Technique.”. European Respiratory Society. 2014.
Shah RF, Schwab J. Current Concepts in Primary Benign, Primary Malignant, and Metastatic Tumors of the Spine (Spinal Oncology). Orthopedic Knowledge Update (OKU). 2025.
Shah RF, Schwab, J. “Large Language Models in Spine Surgery: A Promising Technology.” HSS Journal. 2025
Shah RF, Jayakumar, P, Bozic, K. “Artificial Intelligence in Value-Based Health Care”. HSS Journal. 2025
Shah RF, et al. “Is Vertebral Artery Injury After Blunt Cervical Spine Trauma an Incidental Finding?”. Clin Spine Surg 2024.
Duckworth E, Shah RF, et al. “What personal factors are associated with osteoporosis, fragility fracture, and osteopenia? A population-level analysis using the United Kingdom Biobank”. Bone 2024.
Brinkman N, Shah RF, et al. “Artificial neural networks outperform linear regression in estimating 9-month patient-reported outcomes after upper extremity fractures with increasing number of variables.” OTA International. 2023.
Shah RF, Vail TV, Bini S. “The Lateral Femoral Condyle is not Hypoplastic Relative to the Medial Condyle in 6829 Magnetic Resonance Images Irrespective of Gender, Age, or Extent of Arthritis.” J Orthopedic Experience & Innovation. 2023.
Truumees, E. Shah RF. “Spine Fractures and Dislocations: Patterns, Classifications, and Management.” Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Secrets, 4th Edition. Editor: Jeff Placzek. Publisher: Hanley & Belfus. 05/2022. Novi, Michigan.
Shah RF, Jayakumar PJ, Trutner Z, Bini, S. “Practical Artificial Intelligence in Orthopedics: Realistic ways it can help orthopedic surgeons in the next 10 years and the challenges it will face.” AAOS Instructional Course Lectures Volume 72. Wolters Kluwer Health. Chicago, IL.
Romere C, Shah RF. “Are Online Commercial Ratings of Orthopedic Surgeons Associated with Quality?” Current Orthopedic Practice. In Press. 2023.
Ryan CB, Romere CM, Shah RF, et al. “Rate of concomitant cellulitis and osteoarticular infections in a pediatric population.” Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics B. 2023
Al Salman A, Shah RF, et al. “Symptoms of depression and catastrophic thinking attenuate the relationship of pain intensity and magnitude of incapability with fracture severity.” J Psychosom Res. 2022.
Mertz K, Eppler S, Shah RF, et al. “Health Literacy and Patient Participation in Shared Decision-Making in Orthopedic Surgery.” Orthopedics. 2022.
Amanatullah DF, Eppler SL, Shah RF, et al. “A Qualitative Study of Patient Themes for the Quality of the Total Joint Arthroplasty Experience.” 2021.
Shah RF, et al. “Factors associated with persistent opioid use after an upper extremity fracture.” Bone and Joint Open. 2021.
Shah RF, et al. “The Importance of Concordance Between Patients and Their Subspecialists.” Orthopedics. 2020.
Mertz K, Shah RF, et al. “A Simple Goal Elicitation Tool Improves Shared Decision Making in Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial”. Med Decis Making 2020.
Shah RF, et al. “Data for registry and quality review can be retrospectively collected using natural language processing from unstructured charts of arthroplasty patients.” Bone and Joint Journal. 2020.
Shah RF, et al. “Incremental inputs improve the automated detection of implant loosening using machine-learning algorithms.” Bone and Joint Journal. 2020.
Shah RF, et al. “Variation in the Thickness of Knee Cartilage. The Use of a Novel Machine Learning Algorithm for Cartilage Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images.” Journal of Arthroplasty. 2019.
Shah RF, et al. “Optimal Sampling Frequency for Wearable Sensor Data in Arthroplasty Outcomes Research. A Prospective Observational Cohort Trial.” Journal of Arthroplasty. 2019.
Bini S, Shah RF, et al. “Machine Learning Algorithms Can Use Wearable Sensor Data to Accurately Predict Six-Week Patient-Reported Outcome Scores Following Joint Replacement in a Prospective Trial.” Journal of Arthroplasty. 2019.
Shah RF, et al. “Physical and Occupational Therapy Use and Cost After Common Hand Procedures.” Journal of Hand Surgery. 2019.
Shah RF, et al. “Do Hospital Rankings Mislead Patients? Variability in National Rankings for Orthopedic Surgery.” JAAOS. 2019.
Shah RF, et al. “Evaluation of Readmissions due to Surgical Site Infections: A Potential Target for Quality Improvement.” American Journal of Surgery. 2017.
Shah RF, Gupta RM. “Video instruction is more effective than written instruction in improving inhaler technique”. Pulm Pharmacol Ther. 2017.
GlobalSurg Collaborative (Shah RF among authors). “SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study.” Anesthesia. 2022.
GlobalSurg Collaborative (Shah RF among authors). “Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study.” Anesthesia. 2021.
GlobalSurg Collaborative (Shah RF among authors). “SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study.” Br J Surg. 2021.
GlobalSurg Collaborative (Shah RF among authors). “Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study.” Anesthesia. 2021.
