Alvin philip shapiro, MD 1920-1998

Abstract

Alvin Philip Shapiro, born December 27, 1920, died November 20, 1998. In the intervening 78 years, he made seminal contributions through writing (>250 publications) and teaching to our understanding of hypertension, the relationship of renal disease, and of psychological factors in the development and maintenance of elevated blood pressure. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Al was the son of a Russian immigrant peddler and socialist who had come to this country after the failure of the 1905 revolution in Russia. In the mid-nineteen twenties, his father moved the family, which was then a wife and two children, to New York because the elder Shapiro feared the intolerance of a place that would support the Scopes trial on the teaching of evolution. Al attended New York City Public Schools and then entered Cornell University, receiving his AB in the spring of 1941. On graduation from Long Island College of Medicine in 1944, he interned at Long Island College Hospital and then began an internal medicine residency at the Columbia Division, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, New York. In …