UPMC chief medical officer leaving for USC
Shapiro will be senior VP for health affairs
Steven Shapiro, chief medical and scientific officer at UPMC, is leaving after 15 years to fill a newly created position at the University of Southern California.
Effective May 15, Dr. Shapiro will be senior vice president for health affairs at USC, where he will oversee Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC with oversight of associated research programs, university President Carol L. Folt announced Thursday. He will also serve as a key member of the USC Health System Board.
Dr. Shapiro held a number of roles at UPMC, including most recently Services the which Health Division, leading encompasses UPMC’s 4 0 hospitals.
Dr. Shapiro has worked as chief medical and scientific officer at
UPMC since 2010. He has also worked closely with UPMC Health Plan, the hospital system’s health insurance arm. “Dr. Shapiro has the perfect background and leadership experience to lead both the Keck Medicine and Keck School of Medicine enterprises and guide the development of USC’s strategic priorities for health and biomedical sciences programs,” Ms. Folt said in statement.
Before UPMC, Dr. Shapiro was the Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. For the fiscal year ending July 31, 2019 — the most recent figure available — Dr. Shapiro was paid $2.6 million.