Dr. Shaya completed his medical school at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and his general surgery internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He obtained his neurological surgery residency and spine fellowship from Louisiana State University. While in residency, he published extensively on spinal disease and brain tumors. He has presented topics at many national and international neurosurgery meetings. He developed a grading system for hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage and authored two neurosurgery review textbooks which are used extensively by the neurosurgical community.He is a member of many prestigious societies which include the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, North American Skull Base Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Southern Neurosurgical Society, and the Michael E. Debakey International Surgical Society.