Dr. Robin Shaw is the Nora Eccles Harrison Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute. Dr. Shaw's clinical interests include advanced heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. His research interests involve the cell biology of heart muscle cells, with a particular focus on the movement of cardiac ion channels and the mechanisms of heart failure progression. Dr. Shaw's research team has identified new cardiac proteins and are developing a novel gene therapy for treating advanced heart failure.
Dr. Shaw earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Case Western Reserve University in 1997 and 1999. He completed Internal Medicine and Cardiology Fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. He remained at the University of California San Francisco as an Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor and Investigator at its Cardiovascular Research Institute. In 2013 he moved to Los Angeles as Professor of Medicine at UCLA and the Wasserman Foundation Endowed Chair in Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute. Dr. Shaw was recruited to the University of Utah in 2019. Dr. Shaw treats hospitalized patients at the University of Utah Medical Center.
