Kenneth I. Shine

Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., is President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He is
immediate past Dean and Provost for Medical Sciences of the UCLA School of Medicine. A cardiologist and
physiologist, Dr. Shine received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1957 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical
School in 1961. He served as Chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical
Colleges from 1991 to 1992, and was President of the American Heart Association from 1985 to 1986. Dr
Shine’s research interests include metabolic events in the heart muscle, the relation of behavior to heart
disease, and quality of health care. He continues to teach and care for patients as Clinical Professor of
Medicine at Georgetown School of Medicine. His lecture also appears in Academic Medicine 77.1 (January
2002):91–9. October 2002