Mr. Shaw has served as president and CEO of UC Health, the only adult academic health system in the greater Cincinnati tri-state region, since January 2023. The system is anchored by the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, which serves as the region’s premier academic medical center and is tied to the UC College of Medicine. He leads a system with three inpatient campuses, more than 70 outpatient locations, 11,500 employees and $2.9 billion in revenue, serving more than 425,000 patients from all 50 states each year and totaling nearly 1 million outpatient visits. Under his leadership, UC Health delivered the largest capital investment in its history, a $221 million project that included the new University of Cincinnati Medical Center emergency department, and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center’s Blood Cancer Healing Center opened in the summer of 2024. In March 2026, UC Health and the U.S. Air Force opened an expanded, 30,000-square-foot center for sustainment of trauma and readiness skills simulation center, and the system also opened a new emergency preparedness and response center in 2024. The University of Cincinnati Gardner Neurosciences Institute has served as the National Coordinating Center for the National Institutes of Health’s StrokeNet for over a decade consecutively, and UC Health and its affiliates reached a record $740 million in total research expenditures in 2024, including $40 million in industry-sponsored clinical trials. Mr. Shaw previously spent nearly 30 years at Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine, most recently as executive vice president and COO.
