He is Co-Director of the Taussig Oncology Program for Seniors (TOPS) and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He obtained a PhD in pharmacology at The Ohio State University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical pharmacology at University of Chicago before returning to Ohio State for his medical degree. Dr. Shepard completed his internal medicine residency and a hematology/oncology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic.