Team

Faculty

Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator
(801) 581-8183
Robin.Shaw@hsc.utah.edu

Meet the Shaw Lab Team

Daisuke Shimura, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
(801) 585-3321
u6028814@utah.edu

Tara Hitzeman, MPH

Biostatistician
(801) 587-9509
tara.hitzeman@hsc.utah.edu

Jen Hunter

Lab Specialist / Lab Manager
(801) 587-9529
Jennifer.hunter@utah.edu

Pia Balmaceda, MD

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Pia.Balmaceda@utah.edu

Vu Nguyen

Graduate Research Assistant
Vu.D.Nguyen@utah.edu

Mario Maalouf, MD

Postdoctoral Research Associate
u6049542@utah.edu

Former Personnel

Tina Fong (2007–2013)

Lab Manager → Cardiac Sonographer, Kaiser San Francisco

TingTing Hong (2007–2013)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Associate Professor, University of Utah

James Smyth (2007–2014)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

Danchen Gao (2008–2009)

Visiting Scholar → Professor, Zhejiang University

José Sanchez (2009–2010)

Sarnoff Fellow → Clinical Instructor (Cardiology), UCSF

Kevin Chu (2009–2011)

Lab Technician → Urology Resident, University of Miami

Jacob Vogan (2009–2011)

Lab Technician → CSO, CB Therapeutics

Pranali Bush (2010–2011)

Masters Student → Graduate Student, Northeastern University

Guson Kang (2010–2011)

Sarnoff Fellow → Cardiology Fellow, Stanford

Rebecca Cogswell (2011–2012)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Mitchell Psotka (2011–2012)

Medical Resident → Cardiologist, Virginia

Travis DeSa (2011–2013)

Undergraduate → Radiology Resident, Northwestern

Van Selby (2011–2013)

Heart Failure Fellow → Assistant Professor, UCSF

Rob Wirka (2011–2013)

Medical Resident → Instructor (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford

Shan-Shan Zhang (2011–2016)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Scientist, 23andMe

Priscilla Chan (2012–2013)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Scientist, Relypsa

Mariya Kalashnikova (2013–2014)

Medical Student → Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Caresse Vuong (2014–2015)

Lab Technician → Medical Student, UC San Diego

Irina Epifantseva (2014–2018)

Graduate Student → Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA

Wassim Basheer (2014–2019)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Scientist, Thermo Fisher

Andriana Nikolova (2014–2019)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai/UCLA

Yu Xie (2015–2018)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Advanced Heart Failure Specialist, Sutter Health/CPMC

Joseph Palatinus (2015–2020)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Rachel Baum (2015–2021)

Graduate Student → Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford

Ronit Zadikany (2016–2019)

Medical Resident → Cardiology Fellow, Cedars-Sinai

Chengang Wang (2017–2018)

Postdoctoral Fellow → Associate Chief Physician, Beijing Anzhen Hospital

Diana Hernandez (2017–2019)

Lab Technician → Lab Technician, Cedars-Sinai

Miriam Waghalter (2018–2020)

Undergraduate → Graduate Student, Weizmann Institute

Steven Valdez (2021–2022)

Lab Technician → Graduate Student, Palatinus Lab, University of Utah