Name: Jayesh “Jay” Shah, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine and Wound Care/Hyperbaric Medicine Specialist
City: San Antonio
County Medical Society: Bexar CMS
After completing his one-year term as president of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) in April 2026, San Antonio internist and wound care/hyperbaric medicine specialist Jayesh “Jay” Shah, MD, continues serving as an ex-officio member of the TMA Board of Trustees.
The immediate past president led TMA as its 160th president. Dr. Shah was the first Indian American TMA president, which he called “an immense honor, not just for me but for the entire Indian American physician community.”
A former secretary of the TMA Board of Trustees, Dr. Shah also has served on several TMA councils and committees in his more than 25 years of membership.
He crisscrossed Texas throughout his term as president, meeting with physicians, county medical societies, medical schools, state leaders, and stakeholders, always spreading the message of TMA’s priorities. He also launched his Let Doctors Be Doctors podcast, in which he features physician members as guests. Their discussions highlight his guests’ professional journeys, along with physician wellness issues and the life experiences that influence their patient interactions.
Dr. Shah is chief medical officer of a Patient Aligned Care Team at the Northwest VA Health Clinic, and a staff wound care physician at Audie Murphy VA Hospital. He is also president of TIMEO2 Healing Concepts, LLC.
A bachelor of medicine and surgery graduate of Baroda Medical College in India, Dr. Shah received his doctor of medicine degree and completed an internal medicine residency at Columbia University’s St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He also received a master of health care administration degree from Trinity University in San Antonio.
Dr. Shah values time with his wife Neha Shah, a lymphedema and cancer rehab therapist; his daughter, a medical student; and his son, a cybersecurity specialist in Washington, D.C.
He also enjoys hiking, biking, playing cricket and racquetball, and he teaches yoga and religion.