MARTIN SHAPIRO, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Director, Measurement Core

Address
UCLA School Of Public Health
Box 951736
911 Broxton Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736

Phone
(310) 794-2284

Fax
(310) 794-3288

Email
mfshapiro@mednet.ucla.edu

Biography
Dr. Shapiro obtained his undergraduate and medical education at McGill University. Subsequent to that he completed a residency in internal medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and at UCLA, spent one year engaged in research in the Department of Epidemiology and Health at McGill, and completed a fellowship at UCLA as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Shapiro received a Master of Public Health degree in Health Services from UCLA, then a Ph.D. in history also from UCLA, conducting a dissertation on health care services in Portuguese Africa. Dr. Shapiro joined the UCLA faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research in 1980 and joined the Department of Health Services in 2000. He is Professor and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research in the Department of Medicine. In 1988, he established the Primary Care Research Fellowship Program at UCLA. Dr. Shapiro’s scholarship has focused on the general theme of assuring that medical care is applied equitably and appropriately to the population and on health services research in the area of HIV disease. He directed the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS), and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.