Stephen Shaya's life journey has been one of service instilled by his Iraqi Christian parents and his grandmother. He graduated from Birmingham Brother Rice High School Summa Cum Laude was awarded a Merit Scholarship to attend Wayne State University. Dr. Shaya won many leadership awards including the Outstanding Student Leader in 1991 and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant. He was selected to serve on the WSU Board of Governors from 1991 to 1993 and then attended WSU Medical School and graduated in 1996. Dr. Shaya subsequently trained in Family Practice at North Oakland Medical Center and then did a fellowship at WSU for Occupational and Environmental Health. Since 2004, Dr. Shaya has been the Executive Servant Leader at J & B Medical, a global healthcare company.