Personal Data
Current
Mailing Address
Randall T. Schapiro,
M.D.
Email Address: schap003@umn.edu
Present Activity Status: Working
Tell us about your community activities: Very active with the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society and associated events; Continuing to run and have interest in sports.
Family Status:
Married
Professional Experience
What
path has your career taken since your residency? Include military
service, private practice, academic career, teaching and research
accomplishments.
Private
practice with an academic slant including much teaching and clinical research. Lecture internationally and have many publications. Developed the first comprehensive MS center in the
Residency Recollections
We
are interested in anecdotes and experiences from your residency years.
Include interactions among fellow residents and teaching staff.
No one can forget
Saturdays during residency; many fond memories of colleagues with lifetime
relationships
Looking back, would
you do it again? What would you change?
Yes the clinical
education was so much better than is offered anywhere now.
Additional Thoughts
Share your thoughts regarding the changes
in medicine since your residency. In
your opinion, is Neurology positioned well for the future?
There are tough
times ahead for all of medicine as physicians are very under appreciated now.
Neurology is among the ones with tougher times because the results of management
are not immediately noted