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Dr. Shaw, 57, served as chief of transplantation from the time he joined the University of Nebraska Medical Center faculty in 1985, until his appointment as Chairman of the Department of Surgery in early 1997. Under Dr. Shaw's direction, UNMC rapidly became one of the top solid organ transplant centers in the world. An Ohio native, Dr. Shaw earned his bachelor's degree from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He did his surgery residency at the University of Utah before spending four years in the transplant surgery program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been included among the best physicians in America by such publications as Good Housekeeping Magazine, American Health Magazine, and Town & Country Magazine. Author of over 300 medical journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Shaw was co-editor of The Journal of Liver Transplantation and Surgery. His editorials for that journal addressed such diverse topics as donor liver allocation, leadership in surgery, organ donation campaigns, the foibles of statistical analysis, and the future of transplantation. Dr. Shaw lives with his wife and three children in Omaha, Nebraska. | 