Amish Shah

Amish Shah is an emergency-medicine physician and the Democratic nominee for Arizona's 1st Congressional District, an open seat. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2019 to 2024 and was the Democratic nominee for this seat in 2024, losing to Rep. David Schweikert. His campaign website says he has focused on teacher pay, small businesses, and public health and safety.[1][2]

Shah was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised there by immigrant parents from India, according to FOX 10 Phoenix.[1][3] According to Wikipedia, his parents immigrated from India in the 1960s.[4] He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Northwestern University in 1997, an M.D. from Northwestern in 2001, and a master's in public health from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.[1] He completed a residency in emergency medicine in New York City and joined the faculty of Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he worked on a project to improve player safety in the NFL. He was a team physician for the New York Jets for five seasons, then moved to Arizona for a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona.[4] His career experience includes working as an attending physician with Mayo Clinic, Dignity Health, and IASIS Healthcare, and as chief medical officer of Urgent Consult. He was an airway management physician with the New York Jets and a faculty member at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and his campaign says he is board certified in emergency medicine and continues to practice.[1][3][2] As of 2023 he was an emergency physician at Mayo Clinic Arizona.[1][4]

Shah entered politics in 2018, winning one of two seats in Arizona's 24th legislative district after defeating incumbent Rep. Ken Clark and others in the Democratic primary. He was sworn into the Arizona House on January 14, 2019.[4] Shah won three consecutive elections to the Arizona House of Representatives, in 2018, 2020 and 2022, and served from 2019 to 2024, first in District 24 and, after redistricting, in District 5.[1][2][3] His sponsored bills focused largely on health care, including prior-authorization forms, emergency medical transport and physician peer support.[1][4] According to his campaign website, he had more bills signed into law than any Arizona Democrat in the last decade and worked across party lines.[2] In 2024 he won the Democratic primary for Arizona's 1st Congressional District with 23.5% of the vote, then lost the general election to incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, 51.9% to 48.1%.[1] Shah announced a second run for the seat in May 2025 and won the July 21, 2026 Democratic primary for the open seat with 39.4% of the vote, ahead of Marlene Galan-Woods (34.4%), Jonathan Treble and Rick McCartney.[1][4]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.