Larry J. Shapiro, MD

Larry J. Shapiro, MD, an internationally renowned research geneticist and pediatrician serves as Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, Dean of the School of Medicine and the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor. Previously, Shapiro served as the W.H. and Marie Wattis Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and has been the Chief of Pediatric Services at UCSF Children's Hospital. Shapiro served on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine as an assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the Harbor-UCLA Genetic Metabolic Laboratory. During his years at UCLA, Shapiro also was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Shapiro earned both undergraduate and medical degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Shapiro is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Shapiro is a member of many professional societies and organizations and has served as the president of the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Board of Medical Genetics, and the Society for Inherited Metabolic Diseases. He is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Panel for Research and serves on the Executive Committee of the Council of Deans for the Association of American Medical Colleges. He also currently serves as Board Chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers.