He has over 40 years of clinical experience and, for the past 17 years, was the medical director of an addiction rehabilitation hospital program.

He has authored chronic disease management programs for asthma and diabetes and is a thought leader in the medical application of the new technology of neuromodulation.

Dr. Shapiro and his wife, Miriam, recently relocated to Victoria. He is a father of 5 and grandfather of 14.

Education and Credentials: Dr. Shapiro received a B.C. medical license in August 2023. He has worked as a physician in Ontario for over 40 years. He received a Family Physician Certificate from the Canadian College of Family Physicians in 2017 and Certification of Added Competence in Addiction Medicine in 2019. When he was an addiction medicine consultant for the Oklahoma City Drug Treatment Foundation, he held a State of Oklahoma medical license. He attended McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, as an undergraduate prior to attending the University of Toronto medical school. He then returned to McMaster to complete a medical internship. In the early 1990’s, Dr. Shapiro received training in acupuncture from theNational Acupuncture for Addiction Association at the Lincoln Center Hospital in Bronx, New York.

Family practice and emergency medicine experience: In the first half of his medical career, Dr. Shapiro was a family physician in Ontario. His practice included emergency and hospital care, obstetrics and pediatrics. For a few years, he was head of the family practice and emergency department of a regional hospital.

Addictions-Focused Medical Practice:  For 17 years prior to moving to Victoria, Dr. Shapiro was medical director of the Oaks Centre of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Elliot Lake, Ontario, an inpatient addictions rehabilitation centre and medical detox. He hosted daily group counselling sessions and recovery seminars. He was an addiction medicine consultant for the Ontario Telehealth Network for 20 years. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Shapiro founded eastern Canada’s first outpatient harm reduction clinic for heroin addicts. In 1997, he authored an addiction education CD titled “From Excess to Success”.

Health Education, Disease Management and Research Experience: Dr. Shapiro was a collaborative physician for nurse practitioner-operated diabetes, disease management and Well Women’s programs and was Chief Medical Officer for Softcare Solutions, a New Year City health education and supervision company. He has authored medical and pharmaceutical evaluations and reports in the areas of diabetes, virtual reality in medicine and computer-assisted surgery.

Dr. Shapiro is co-founder of an Ottawa-based neuroscience research company which developed a neuromodulation treatment platform (transcranial direct current stimulation) approved by Health Canada for chronic pain treatment and in Europe and in other countries for the treatment of depression, addiction, chronic pain, post-stroke rehab and cognitive impairment.