Dan Shapiro, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Dan Shapiro, Ph.D. is a Senior Partner and the Executive Director of the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions where he and his team focus on assisting leaders of multi-hospital systems in efforts to reduce burnout and the turnover of high value physicians, nurses, Advanced Practice Providers and other staff. Dr. Shapiro earned his Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida and went on to Harvard Medical School where he completed an internship and an endowed post-doctoral fellowship. Soon after taking his first faculty position in 1995 he was appointed an in-house psychologist and began treating physicians and nurses. In 2003 Random House published his landmark memoir about one physician’s burnout, titled, “Delivering Doctor Amelia,” which was required reading at some colleges and medical schools. He’s written two other books, also for Random House. Shapiro’s additional writings have appeared or been featured in, among others, the New York Times, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Academic Medicine, and NPR’s All Things Considered and he’s delivered over 350 keynotes at healthcare related conferences. A former tenured faculty with an endowed professorship, Shapiro worked in academic leadership positions in medical schools between 2008 and 2023. In that role he recruited chairs, developed tools for evaluating leadership, and created analytic tools to help academic medical leaders make better decisions. He’s had a long-standing interest in systematic methods for reducing burnout and in 2023 he left his role as a Vice Dean and professor to pursue the reduction of burnout full time as a Senior Partner at Chartis.As a hobby, he worked for ten years as a weekly consultant to the hit television shows Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, How to Get Away With Murder and on-camera for the Discovery, National Geographic, and FYI channels. He is not responsible for the death of McDreamy.