Eugene Shapiro, MD

Dr. Shapiro is an experienced clinical epidemiologist who has had continuous grant support from the NIH for more than 35 years and has been PI of 6 competitive NIH R01 grants, 2 competitive K-24 grants, and was the site PI of a subcontract for the major clinical site of 5 additional competitive R01 grants. Currently, he is actively engaged in research on the effectiveness of human papillomavirus vaccine in clinical practice, on determining which serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae should be included in a conjugate pneumococcal vaccine designed exclusively for adults, on the effectiveness of immunoprophylaxis of infants and vaccination of pregnant women to prevent RSV infections in children and on a number of different topics related to patients with Lyme disease. The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society gave him the Stanley A. Plotkin Lectureship in Vaccinology Award (2014) in recognition of career achievement in research on vaccinology and the Distinguished Physician Award (2017) “for an extensive and distinguished career in pediatric infectious diseases.”

Dr. Shapiro is Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Pediatrics, Co-Director of Education and Director of Child Health Research for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation/CTSA, Co-PI of Yale’s KL-2 Institutional Career Development Core (and for more than 20 years has been director or co-director of the KL-2 and of the K-12 that preceded it), Co-PI of Yale’s TL-1 NRSA Training Core and Deputy Director of Yale’s PhD Program in Investigative Medicine in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is also Director of Grant Writing and Evaluation for Yale’s Office of Physician Scientist Development. He directs multiple, intensive, full semester, graduate-level courses about writing grants as well as about how to design and to analyze clinical and translational research studies. He is primary or secondary mentor for 4 faculty members with NIH career development awards. He has mentored numerous (>60) medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty members, many of whom are now members of ladder faculty at leading academic institutions and have received NIH grant support for their own independent research studies. Dr. Shapiro has an important leadership role in the educational programs of Yale’s CTSA and was site director of a randomized clinical trial of the effectiveness of a curriculum to improve mentoring that has evolved into an annual 5-session course (10 hours) on mentoring that he has directed for 14 years. He also has been directing the mock study session program at the annual Translational Science meeting. Dr. Shapiro has a long-standing commitment to developing the careers of young investigators and is on the faculty of numerous NIH training grants.