Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS
Dr. Shapiro is an associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She is a consultant for the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery and principal faculty for the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston. In 2008, she founded the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Professionalism and Peer Support where she served as the director for over 10 years. In 2018, Harvard Medical School gave her the Shirley Driscoll Dean’s Award for the Advancement of Women’s Careers. She continues to educate and assist organizations in developing specific programmatic and educational approaches to patient safety and clinician wellbeing such as peer support, disclosure and apology, professionalism initiatives, and conflict management. She developed and taught a graduate school curriculum for Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Science entitled Leadership in Patient Safety and Clinician Wellbeing.
Dr. Shapiro received her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.D. from George Washington University Medical School. Her general surgery training was at the University of California, San Diego, and then UCLA. She did her otolaryngology training at Harvard followed by a year of a National Institute of Health Training Grant Fellowship in swallowing physiology. She was a faculty member in the Department of Surgery at BWH for over 35 years. Her clinical expertise was in oropharyngeal dysphagia. She is married to an internist and they have three children and a grandchild.