Steven Shea, MD, MS, received his AB from Harvard College and his MD from Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital and fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received an MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been on the faculty at Columbia since 1984 and served as Division Chief from 1992 to 2014. His research is focused on cardiovascular epidemiology and medical informatics applications to chronic disease management. He is the principal investigator for the Columbia University Field Center for the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a longitudinal study of approximately 6,400 subjects (1,100 at Columbia) funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) since the year 2000.