Randall T. Schapiro, M.D.

Current Mailing Address

4225 Golden Valley Road
Golden Valley, MN 55422

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 United States in 1975.

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