Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Martin Shapiro presents: ” The Present Illness: American Health Care and It’s Afflictions

Dr. Martin Shapiro obtained his medical degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in history and a Master’s in Public Health from UCLA. He is a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. Prior to coming to Cornell, he spent many years at UCLA, where he was chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research for 25 years. He is a general internist who has practiced both inpatient and outpatient GIM. He also is a health services researcher who has studied accessibility of care and health disparities, scientific misconduct, pharmaceutical advertising, and scientific authorship, among other topics. He led a major national study of care for HIV disease. He is also interested in such conditions as hypertension and hepatitis C, in empowering communities in relation to the research enterprise, and in trying to improve health and health care for those most in need. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and of the Association of American Physicians and is a past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine. He enjoys mentoring students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty members. His new book, The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions, has just been published by Johns Hopkins University Press.