Edward Shapiro

SHAPIRO, M.D., Edward A Life Well Lived - Born January 29, 1911 and died peacefully in his home November 12, 2006. A great clinician, diagnostician, communicator, friend and mentor, Ed will be missed by all whose lives he touched. Graduated UCLA, pre-med and UCSF Medical School. He was the first graduate medical resident from Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in 1938. He was invited to join Drs. Julius Kahn and Raymond Kay in 1939 in the practice of internal medicine, and there began an association that would include Drs. Maurice Lipkis and Fredrick Kahn and would continue for fifty-five years. Ed retired at age eighty-five. Ed was a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He was Alpha Omega Alpha from USC. He was clinical professor of medicine at USC from 1945, becoming emeritus in 1977. The American College of Physicians gave Ed the Laureate Award in 1996 and the Ralph Claypool Memorial Award in 1997. He was a prolific writer and lecturer and a great historian of medicine. A lover of music, he was an amateur violist and played with a string quartet for twenty-eight years. Predeceased by Millie, his loving wife of forty-six years, he is survived by their daughters Linda Goldberg and Julie (Wagner) Van Vlack, three grandchildren, Michael Goldberg, Joshua (Stacy) Goldberg and Jenie (Tudor) Van Hampton, and two great-granddaughters, Nisa and Sienna Goldberg. He is survived also by his adoring wife of twenty-five years, Adele. Ed was a man for all seasons. A memorial will be held Wednesday, November 29, 10:30 a.m., at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in the Harvey Morse Auditorium. Contributions in Ed's name may be made to the Cedars Sinai Medical Center Medical Library.