If you know the history of public health at Washington University, you know how important WashU Medicine Dean Emeritus Larry J. Shapiro, MD, is to the timeline.
Shapiro served as the medical school’s dean and executive vice chancellor for 12 years, during which time he played an instrumental role in establishing the university’s Institute for Public Health (IPH) and its mission to foster transdisciplinary research in public health across the university. The institute was largely the foundation of the university’s newly established WashU Bursky School of Public Health.