Shin Lin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

Faculty Information

Biography

Dr. Lin is a heart failure/mechanical circulatory support/heart transplantation specialist at the UW Medicine Regional Heart Center and a UW assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology.

Dr. Lin earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and his M.D./Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During his graduate studies, he earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Lin completed his internship at the Mayo Clinic and finished his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in cardiovascular diseases at Stanford Health Care and subsequently underwent sub-specialization in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Dr. Lin is ABIM board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and advanced heart failure/transplant cardiology.

Education & Training: 
Fellowship, Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
2016
Fellowship in Cardiology
Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Stanford, CA
2009-2012
Residency
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
2007-2009
Internship
Mayo Medicine Clinic
Rochester, MN
2006-2007
MD/PhD
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
2006
MHS, Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD
2004
Contact
Mailing Address: 

UW Research- South Lake Union Complex

850 Republican Street

Box 358050

Seattle, WA 98109

 

Non-Clinical Administrative Support Contact:

uwcard@cardiology.washington.edu

 

For appointments or other clinical matters, please contact the Heart Institute.

Research & Clinical Interests
Research Interests: 
  • Epigenomics
  • Genetics of heart failure
Clinical Interests: 
  • Heart failure therapies
  • Endomyocardial biopsy procedure
  • Heart failure
  • Mechanical circulatory support
  • Heart transplantation
Publications