Candidate for 2025 Secretary
Biography
Gabrielle Shapiro, M.D., is a general and child and adolescent psychiatrist who has dedicated her 30+ years of career to care for and advocate for underserved children, adolescents, and their families. She is committed to understanding and responding to both the biological and social determinants of mental health, with a focus on eliminating disparities in mental health services for underserved communities, including communities of color, Native Americans, LGBTQ+, immigrants, and others.
Dr. Shapiro is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and The Miller School of Medicine at The University of Miami. She has also served on the UCSD, NYU, and Bellevue Hospital faculty. She is a bilingual (Spanish) psychiatrist who has spent her entire career in the public sector. She currently practices in Harlem and the Bronx, in settlement houses and collaborative care settings, and treats New York, California, and Florida immigrants.
Dr. Shapiro has held leadership roles, both locally and nationally, and is presently Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees, Chair of the APA Conflict of Interest Committee, member of the APA Joint Reference Committee, Chair of the New York County Medical Society Board of Trustees, former Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, former Board member of NYCPS and The NY County Medical Society, Board member of NY Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and former Board member of The American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Political Action Committee. She is former President of The California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and an editor of Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry.
While Dr. Shapiro was Chair, the APA Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families produced toolkits and policy statements addressing immigration and child separation, LGBTQ issues, cyberbullying, dangers of vaping, increasing Black youth suicide rates, police interactions with children, college mental health, social determinants of mental health, identification of disparities in communities of color, and the growth and expansion of "Notice, Talk, Act" in schools, Dr. Shapiro is a dedicated educator and mentor who has inspired many early career psychiatrists to become involved in advocacy, political action, the American Psychiatric Association, and organized medicine.
Education
- Vassar College, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
- New York Medical College, Doctor of Medicine
- Internship in Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine
- General Psychiatry Residency, University of California, San Diego
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, University of California, San Diego
- Woman in Leadership: Harvard University (In progress)
Awards and Honors
- Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
- Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Hulse Award, New York Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2017)
- Bruno Lima Award, American Psychiatric Association (2001)