Brian Shayota, MD, MPH, has been working at the University of Utah since 2020. Prior to that, he grew up in sunny San Diego as a first-generation Chaldean-American of Iraq immigrant parents and went to the University of California, San Diego for undergrad, followed by medical school at St. George’s University. He has been triple board certified in Pediatrics from New York Medical College – Paterson, NJ and Medical Genetics and Medical Biochemical Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine. His career at Utah has focused on rare inborn errors of metabolism, with co-directorship of the metabolic services and serving as the program director of the Medical Biochemical Genetics fellowship program. He is also the primary investigator and co-investigator on several clinical trials including new gene therapies, the primary consultant for the Alaska’s metabolic service, the primary consultant for newborn screening in Utah, Nevada, and Alaska, founder of the TeleGenetics service, and founder of the ReSeq clinic that utilizes the latest innovative genetic testing methods to solve mystery patient cases.
In his free time, Brian is first and foremost, a family man with a wonderful husband and twin children, Nolan and Naomi. He is also an avid runner with several marathons and an ultra-marathon under his belt. Travel and adventurous activities are also interests, having been to 30+ countries spanning 6 continents (will eventually make it to Antarctica too) and enjoying activities like skydiving, hang gliding, bungee-jumping, hiking, snowboarding, etc. And when he is not moving, a good board game or video game with friends is a great way to wind down at the end of the day.
