Dr. Shapira is the chief medical officer at Regional Cancer Care Associates (RCCA). She oversees clinical operations, which include quality of care and patient safety, coordination of clinical care, development of clinical information support systems, and physician engagement in strategic initiatives to provide value-based quality care. As the medical director of RCCA Specialty Pharmacy, Dr. Shapira is responsible for promoting and coordinating research and development in medicines management to ensure pharmacy service staff work with clinical staff to proactively promote safe and cost-effective drug therapies. Her role also includes overseeing and expanding the research portfolio and implementation of innovative programs to advance quality improvement and new models of care.
Dr. Shapira came to RCCA from the State University of New York, where she was the chief of the Division of Hematology Oncology and the director of the Cancer Institute at the State University New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Earlier, she worked for nine years as the director of cancer genetics at Northwell Health System and was an associate professor of medicine at Hofstra University.
Dr. Shapira is an associate professor of medicine and cell biology for the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Prior to her work in academic medicine, Dr. Shapira served in clinical practice in rural Lake Village, Arkansas. She received her medical degree in 1990 from the Carol Davila Medical School in Bucharest and completed her residency training in internal medicine at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. She also completed a fellowship in hematology oncology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.