Dr Waqaar Shah is a physician and healthcare leader in the NHS with significant experience, insights, and acumen into patient care, social determinants of wellbeing, and systems executive functions.

He is a GP based in London.

Additionally, Dr Shah is the chairman of the Type 2 Diabetes Guideline Committee at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He has also chaired other guideline committees at NICE including Long COVID, Prostate Cancer, Glaucoma, Neonatal Infection, and Macular Degeneration.

Dr Shah is a Clinical Director for Ophthalmology at NHS London where he provides leadership to the elective care recovery programme. He has an interest in non-clinical factors that impact quality of life, such as the built environment, housing and air quality.