Kenneth I. Shine, MD, is President of the Institute of the Medicine, National Academy of Science, and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. He is UCLA School of Medicine’s immediate past Dean and Provost for Medical Sciences. Currently he is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

A cardiologist and physiologist, Dr. Shine received his AB from Harvard College in 1957 and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1961. Most of his advanced training was at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he became Chief Resident in Medicine in 1968. Following his postgraduate training at MGH, he held an appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He moved in 1971 to the UCLA School of Medicine and became Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Chief of the Cardiology Division, and subsequently, Chair of the Department of Medicine. As Dean at UCLA, Dr. Shine stimulated major initiatives in ambulatory education, community service for medical student and faculty, mathematics and science education in the public schools, and the construction of new research facilities funded entirely by the private sector.

Dr. Shine is a member of many honorific and academic societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Omega Alpha; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Physicians; and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1988. He served as Chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 1991-1992, and was President of the American Heart Association from 1985-1986.

Dr. Shine’s research interests include metabolic events in the heart muscle, the relation of behavior to heart disease, and emergency medicine. He participated in efforts to prove the value of cardiopulmonary resuscitation following a heart attack, and in establishing the 911 emergency telephone number in the multi-jurisdictional Los Angeles area. Dr. Shine is the author of numerous articles and scientific papers in the area of heart physiology and clinical research.