Shawn Kaku, MD is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, and has over 12 years of experience in Critical Care Medicine. He obtained his medical degree at the University of California, Irvine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the  University of California, Los Angeles in 2012 and subsequently completed his Critical Care followship at Stanford University in 2014. He currently works and holds privileges at 3 hospitals systems in the California Bay Area (Kaiser Permanente, Sutter and Stanford), and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University Hospital. He has experience with critically ill medical and surgical patients, including those with traumatic and neurological injuries
 
Dr Kaku has worked at Sutter Eden Medical Center since 2014 as a full time Intensivist in the combined Medical/Surgical/Trauma/Neuro ICU. He has held multiple leadership positions including ICU Medical Director, Vice Chair of Medicine, Chair of Medicine, Chair of the Quality Review Committee, and Section Chief of Critical Care. As ICU director, he helped grow and transform the ICU program  
 
In 2017 Dr Kaku rejoined Stanford University as an original member of the Emergency Critical Care physician group. He had a hand in developing the program, and continues to work at Stanford in the Medical ICU caring for critically ill medical, surgical, and neurological patients. He engages with leaners at bother Stanford and Kaiser, educating medical student, residents, and fellows.