Kushal Shukla

Board-certified internal medicine physician (MD, MS, FACP) with extensive experience in hospitalist care, teaching, and organizational leadership. Demonstrates expertise in quality improvement initiatives and committee leadership, consistently achieving significant advancements in patient safety and care efficacy. Recognized as an award-winning educator with a proven record of national research presentations, highlighting a commitment to enhancing clinical practice and medical education. Dedicated to fostering a culture of excellence in healthcare through innovative solutions and collaborative teamwork.

• Discharge to SAR Committee – Overlook Medical Center March 2024 - Sept 2025

Worked with multidisciplinary team on identifying ground level factors causing discharge delays and worked on improving EPIC and physical communication between team members and with patients and families to get safe and early discharges efficiently. Improved audio-visual communication regarding patient information towards discharge planning. Significantly reduced PT, OT and speech consultation to divert workforce towards efficient consultation in timely manner to patients who needed. Improved Interdisciplinary rounds quality with education on improvement on information transfer early in day to improve efficacy in early discharges to meet patients’ needs early. Many other goals achieved with this committee.

• Medical Care Review Committee – Overlook Medical Center Jan 2023 - current

Been member on this multidisciplinary committee run by Department chair to discuss patient cases reported by any hospital team member to see clinical guidelines met during patient care and to thoroughly instigate cases and help with root case analysis and develop new work flow for future.

• Clinical Documentation Improvement Committee - Overlook Medical Center March 2025 - Current

Helping in this committee under hospitalist team director to understand coding queries for physician and automate process to do efficient coding and help burden of coding and physician staff.

• Geriatric Committee – Overlook Medical Center August 2025 - Current

Been Part of this multidisciplinary committee which focuses on preventing delirium in hospital and whole navigation process around elderly patient population in and outside of hospital

• PSQI (Patient Safety Quality Improvement) Committee Leader – RWJ Rutgers July 2018 - June 2021
• Found cases during residency where patient safety or treatment guidelines deviated and assigned residents with help with department chair for weekly lecture on how to improve

• ACP Journal Manuscript 2024: Early Diagnosis to Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complications
• AAFP National 2024: Contact Dermatitis or Paraneoplastic Syndrome?: A Case of Atypical Dermatomyositis Resulting in End Organ Involvement and Significant Functional Decline
• AAFP NJ 2024: Contact Dermatitis or Paraneoplastic Syndrome?: A Case of Atypical Dermatomyositis Resulting in End Organ Involvement and Significant Functional Decline
• ACG National 2020: Severe Acute GI Bleed Treated With Non-Endoscopic Intervention: Heyde’s Syndrome
• ACG National 2020: Postpartum Hematochezia In 28 Year Old Due To Primary Signet Ring Adenocarcinoma Of Colon
• ACG National 2019: Rare presentation of sarcoidosis diagnosed as Pancreatic sarcoidosis
• HPV effects and it’s treatments (Ross University research competition 2015)
• Virus, It’s infection and drugs effect on viruses (Ross University Hindu student council competition 2015)
• Neuron Growth on Nanomaterial (Nanotechnology poster competition at New Jersey Institute of Tech 2013)
• Liposome in dosage forms (Future Dosage forms competition at New Jersey Institute of Tech 2013)
• Drug Discovery of Phenelzine (Medicinal chemistry 2013)
• Pharmaceutical Facility Design of given project for the facility in Texas (NJIT 2013)
• Natural Immuno modulator drugs (Won first price in sept 2008 at Pharma vision 2020 students competition)
• Brain targeted Drug delivery system (Co-authored presentation Sep 2009 at Pharma Avalanche)

• NJ medical license
• CT, MD, NH, IMLC Medical license
• Licensed Pharmacist, Pharmacy Council of India
• ABIM certification since 2021