Miriam Shapiro, MD

Dr. Miriam Shapiro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Affiliate Faculty at the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics. She earned her medical degree from the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. Dr. Shapiro completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Additionally, she was a Hecht-Levi Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Dr. Shapiro cares for patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Units at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital and Hennepin County Medical Center.
Dr. Shapiro's research interests are in decision-making in pediatric critical illness, pediatric chronic critical illness, and physician responsibility and teamwork.