Sam Shapiro
Sam Shapiro (born 1914 in New York City , † December 30, 1999 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American biostatistician , mathematician and epidemiologist . He is known for studies of mammography in breast cancer screening and was a professor in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University .
Sam Shapiro studied mathematics at Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in 1933 and then mathematics and statistics at Columbia University and George Washington University . He never did a PhD (but received an honorary doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1998). In the 1960s he was director of research for the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York . There he came into contact with Philip Strax , with whom he carried out a very influential clinical study in the early 1960s that demonstrated the success of preventive examinations with mammography in breast cancer.
For the remainder of his career, he studied the effectiveness of medical treatments in large populations. He has contributed to more than 200 scientific publications, including a study on child mortality (1968), a study on coronary artery disease (1969), and on children with low birth weights (1985). In 1973 he became director of the Health Services Research and Development Center at Johns Hopkins University.
In 1988 Shapiro received the Kettering Prize with Philip Strax . He was a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences .
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- ↑ Sam Shapiro, Philip Strax, Louis Venet: Evaluation of Periodic Breast Cancer Screening With Mammography: Methodology and Early Observations, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Volume 195, 1966, No. 9, pp. 731-738
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| SURNAME | Shapiro, Sam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biostatistician, mathematician, and epidemiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1999 |
| Place of death | Baltimore , Maryland |