Stanley Shaw

Stanley Y. Shaw, MD PhD is one of the founding faculty members in the MGH Center for Systems Biology, with a joint appointment in the Cardiovascular Research Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH), which seeks to develop quantitative phenotypes, digital health tools, and integrative analytics for biomedical discovery.

Dr. Shaw received his A.B. in Chemistry & Physics summa cum laude from Harvard College, and pursued his combined M.D. and Ph.D. studies at Harvard; his Ph.D. in Biophysics studied DNA topology under the supervision of James Wang. Following his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at MGH, he worked with Mark Fishman and Stuart Schreiber as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute physician post-doctoral fellow. He is a board-certified cardiologist and attending physician in the MGH Heart Center. Before that, he also served as Chief Resident of the Medical Service at MGH.