MVHS Welcomes Hospitalists to SEMC

Rashid Girshab, MD

Ranjit Mandhare, MD

Apurva Shah, MD

UTICA, N.Y. – The Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Medical Group has welcomed the following providers to the Hospitalist Program. All may be reached through the Hospitalist Program Office at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.

Rashid Girshab, MD, a 2015 graduate of the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program, has joined the MVHS Hospitalist Program as an attending physician.

Dr. Girshab earned his medical degree from St. Matthew’s School of Medicine, St. Mathews University, Grand Cayman. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Medical Society of the State of New York. During work in Flint, Michigan, Dr. Girshab helped establish a practice as a Patient-Centered Medical Home and was an asthma and diabetes educator. In addition, he has experience in intensive care, nursing homes, home visits and family planning clinics.

Ranjit Mandhare, MD, a 2015 graduate of the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program, has joined the MVHS Hospitalist Program as an attending physician.

Dr. Mandhare earned his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Saint Maarten. He earned his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Management and Information Systems from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana. Dr. Mandhare is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Medical Society of the State of New York.

Dr. Mandhare is certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. As a medical volunteer in Oakland, California, he organized town hall meetings to educate the medical community and patient population on managed healthcare and upcoming changes. He speaks Hindi in addition to English.

Apurva Shah, MD, has joined the MVHS Hospitalist Program as an attending physician.

Dr. Shah earned his medical degree from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine in Antigua and Barbuda. He completed his internal medicine residency at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, where he served as internal medicine chief resident. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Dr. Shah is internal medicine board eligible and certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Central Venous Access and the Arterial Line. Dr. Shah speaks Gujarati and Hindi, in addition to English. 

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Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center are affiliates under the Mohawk Valley Health System.