Dr. Shaw is Chair, Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation, Cleveland Clinic. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anesthetists (UK) and a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He has practiced cardiothoracic anesthesiology and critical care medicine for more than 15 years in the UK and USA and has authored 3 textbooks and more than 100 original papers. He currently runs the iPEGASUS initiative, an international surgical outcomes consortium focused on genetics and genomics in perioperative medicine. His clinical practice is cardiothoracic anesthesia and surgical critical care medicine. His translational research interests include the use of metabolomics, proteomics and genomics for biomarker discovery in acute illness and injury; his clinical research interests include observational and interventional trials of candidate interventions to prevent and treat adverse outcomes following surgery, particularly acute kidney injury (AKI).