Dr. Dhaval Shah completed his Ph.D. training in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Dhaval obtained his Bachelors in Pharmacy (B. Pharm.) degree from K.B. Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and research (http://www.kbiper.org/) in 2002. He received his M.S. in the field of Drug Delivery from the Department of Pharmaceutics at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (http://www.niper.nic.in/) in 2003. Dhaval joined the North Dakota State University (http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/) as a Ph.D. student in 2004 and transferred to the Ph.D. program at SUNY Buffalo in 2005. Dhaval is an Ex-President of the departmental Graduate Student Association and is a former member of Deans' Student Ambassador Program.  Dhaval’s Ph.D. dissertation research work involved the development and evaluation of pharmacokinetic strategies to improve the safety and the efficacy of Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy.