Editor-in-Chief
Dean, Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine
Marshall University, USA
Dr. Joseph I. Shapiro is currently the Dean of the Joan C Edwards School of Medicine of Marshall University. His appointment in this role was in July of 2012. Dr. Shapiro received his B.A. in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and his M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1980. Following his Residency in Medicine at Georgetown University (1980-83). He received his Nephrology training at the University of Colorado (1983-86) where he subsequently joined the faculty and was promoted through the academic ranks in the Department of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Radiology; from 1992-97, Dr. Shapiro was also an adjunct professor of Physics at Denver University. Dr. Shapiro joined the University of Toledo (then called the Medical College of Ohio) in 1997 as Professor and Chief of Nephrology. He was selected to be Chairman of Medicine after a national search in 1999, and he was appointed Associate Dean for Business Development in 2006. He recently relocated to Marshall University to serve as Dean for the Joan C Edwards School of Medicine.
Dr. Shapiro has had a career which blends education, clinical practice and research. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology as well as licensed to practice in the state of Ohio. Dr. Shapiro is the author or co-author of approximately 200 research papers and book chapters and holds a number of patents; he has also been involved with several start-up companies which were based on these patents. Dr. Shapiro has been well funded throughout his career receiving a number of grants from the NIH, AHA and US Army as well as industrial sponsors. His research interests range from basic and translational science where he studies the effects of renal failure on cardiac structure and function to clinical research where he has worked on analgesic nephropathy and renal artery stenosis. He has served on a number of editorial boards as well as the national finance committee for the American Society of Nephrology, and he has received a number of academic honors including election as a Fellow of the American Heart Association as well as the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine award.
Joseph I. Shapiro research interests range from basic and translational science where he studies the effects of renal failure on cardiac structure and function to clinical research where he has worked on analgesic nephropathy and renal artery stenosis.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor of Medicine
New York Medical College, USA
wilbert s. Aronow is currently professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology, geriatrics, and pulmonary/critical medicine at westchester medical center/new york medical college. He is also chief of the cardiology clinic, senior associate program director of the cardiology fellowship program, senior associate program director and research mentor for the residency and fellowship programs in the department of medicine, and senior associate director of the center for educational innovations project quality research at westchester medical center and new york medical college.
Wilbert S Aronow Research Interests are Clinical Cardiology, Including Cardiac Catheterization, Coronary angioplasty and Stenting.
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