Bella Shah Nagappan, MD, EDAC is an attending Emergency Medicine physician and designer based in San Francisco, California. She completed her residency, medical school, and undergraduate training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. She has completed her LEAN certification and she is one of less than 10 physicians in the country to hold Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC).

Her passion is applied design to improve healthcare experience (in all resource settings), education, and innovation. She has experience teaching residents and medical students, leading multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating on a variety of design-based projects and research.