Raj Shah

Raj Shah was a coxswain for the women’s eight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She competed at the 1997-99 World Championships, all in the eight, winning silver medals in 1998 and 1999.

Shah coxed the men’s rowing team at Brown University from 1992-96. After the Sydney Olympics she obtained a master’s degree in biology from San Diego State University in 2002 and then graduated from Albany Medical College 2006.

After a residency at the University of Minnesota in children’s ENT and facial plastic surgery Shah became an otolaryngologist (ENT), serving as the section director of pediatric otolaryngology at Children’s Hospital of Richmond (CHoR) and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia. She has served on the Board of the Virginia Society of Otolaryngology and was a founder and President of the Pediatric Head and Neck Surgical Society. Returning to her sporting roots, she has been on the board of Richmond Community Rowing.