Albert C Shaw, MD, PhD
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Dr. Shaw is a graduate of Harvard College who completed his M.D. training at Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Philip Leder. After completing his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Fred Alt. Dr. Shaw joined the faculty at Yale in 2001, and is currently Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases. His research focuses on the immunology of aging, and his laboratory has interests in age-associated alterations in innate immune function and vaccine response in humans, as well as circadian regulation of immune response and mechanisms of inflammatory dysregulation in medication-associated treatment of opioid use disorder. He was a Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Physician Research Fellow, Brookdale National Fellow, and T. Franklin Williams Scholar, and he is a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and member of the Interurban Clinical Club.
Education & Training
- FellowMassachusetts General Hospital (1997)
- Intern and ResidentMassachusetts General Hospital (1994)
- PhDHarvard University (1991)
- MDHarvard Medical School (1991)
- ABHarvard College (1983)
Departments & Organizations
- Center for Infection and Immunity
- Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
- CPIRT - Pulmonary Infection Research and Treatment
- Human and Translational Immunology Program
- Infectious Diseases
- Internal Medicine
- Rheumatic Diseases Research Core
- Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative