Richard Shaw
Investigator
Dr. Shaw leads medical research in database development and statistics.
His seminal work in creating a predictive risk model for percutaneous coronary intervention mortality led to the first clinical measure adopted by the National Quality Forum for interventional cardiology.
Dr. Shaw has published over 400 abstracts, articles, and book chapters on cardiac catheterization intervention, cardiac surgery, longitudinal assessment of medical outcomes, development of risk-adjustment models, and comparative effectiveness approaches to collecting medical information.
He is a consultant to cardiac programs in the U.S. and lectures on the development of cardiovascular research programs, statistical methods and analysis, design of medical databases, and risk adjustment methodology.
Dr. Shaw received his Ph.D. in Medical Research, Informatics, and Statistics from the Graduate Division and School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he received the Robert E. Harris Award for Distinguished Research.