Alvin P. Shapiro (December 28, 1920 – November 21, 1998) was an American

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primarily at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Shapiro was the recipient of a Lasker Award and was known for his research in hypertension,

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, and related diseases.

Career

Shapiro held

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positions at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, Goldwater Memorial Hospital,

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, and

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Hospital. After training, he was an attending physician at hospitals in Parkland, Virginia, and Pittsburgh as well as the Dallas Presbyterian University Hospital and

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. He held academic positions at the Cincinnati College of Medicine from 1949 to 1951 and

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, Texas, from 1951 to 1956. He was a member of the faculty of th
School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
from 1956–1998, where he was successively assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, and emeritus professor. Shapiro was a consultant for the

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Council on Drugs; he was the Medical Letter of Drugs and Therapy in 1960 as well as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Utrecht. He chaired special projects such as a National Heart Institute study committee and the National Hypertension Study Policy Advisory Board from 1972 to 1982.

Publications

Books

Sources:OCLC WorldCat *Shapiro, A. P., & Waife, S. O. (1959)
The clinical evaluation of new drugs
New York. *Shapiro, A. P., Provoost, A. P., & De, J. W. (1977)
Hypertension and brain mechanisms
Progress in Brain Research, v. 47. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company. *Shapiro, A. P., & Baum, A. (1991). Behavioral aspects of cardiovascular disease. Perspectives in behavioral medicine. Hillsdale, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates. *Shapiro, A. P. (1996)
Hypertension and stress: A unified concept
Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Journals

Shapiro was the author of ove
155 journal articles
in respected medical journals, and associate editor of: *''Psychosomatic Medicine'', 1963–92 *''Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Sci'', 1990

Awards and recognition

*Co-recipient Alfred Lasker Special Public Health award, 1980 *Honored Member of Year, Minute Men of University of Pittsburgh, 1995 *Fellow

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(elected fellow 1989) *member of: **American Federation

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**American Psychosomatic Society (president 1975) **American Medical Association, American Heart Association (medical advisory board council

high blood pressure Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms. Long-term high bl ...

, council on circulation, council on epidemiology) Th
American Psychosomatic Society
established th
Alvin P. Shapiro Award
in 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapiro, Alvin P. 1920 births Physicians from Pennsylvania 20th-century American educators 1998 deaths Burials at Homewood Cemetery Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research University of Pittsburgh faculty