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Overview

Johanna Shapiro is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a particular focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, and Health Information Management.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Film in Education and Therapy
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Resilience and Mental Health

Frequent coauthors of Shapiro's work are:

  • Tan Nguyen
  • Cynthia Haq
  • Avital Fischer
  • Reece Fenning
  • Tien Lam

The most common publication venues for Shapiro include:

  • Journal of Medical Humanities
  • CMAJ Open
  • Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare
  • Families Systems & Health
  • PLoS ONE

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Shapiro highlight a focus on medical education, empathy, and the intersection of medicine and the humanities. Notable papers include:

  • "Medical Students' Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation" (2021, Journal of Medical Humanities)
  • "Healing words: My journey with poetry and medicine." (2020, Families Systems & Health)

Other relevant recent papers in related research fields where Shapiro was involved as an author or coauthor include:

  • "Clinical empathy as perceived by patients with chronic illness in Canada: a qualitative focus group study" (2023, CMAJ Open)
  • "Views from the trenches: California family physicians' challenges and resilience factors while providing patient care during the initial wave of COVID-19" (2022, Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare)
  • "A randomized, controlled study to assess if allopathic-osteopathic collaboration influences stereotypes, interprofessional readiness, and doctor-patient communication" (2022, PLoS ONE)

Best Publications

  • Teaching empathy to first year medical students: evaluation of an elective literature and medicine course.

    Johanna Shapiro;Elizabeth H. Morrison;John R. Boker

  • Medical humanities and their discontents: definitions, critiques, and implications.

    Johanna Shapiro;Jack Coulehan;Delese Wear;Martha Montello

  • Walking a mile in their patients' shoes: empathy and othering in medical students' education

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Training the clinical eye and mind: using the arts to develop medical students' observational and pattern recognition skills.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lloyd Rucker;Jill Beck

  • All the world's a stage: the use of theatrical performance in medical education.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lynn Hunt

  • Cultural Models of Transition: Latina Mothers of Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities

    Robert Rueda;Lilia Monzo;Johanna Shapiro;Juan Gomez

  • Perspective: Does medical education promote professional alexithymia? A call for attending to the emotions of patients and self in medical training

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Family reactions and coping strategies in response to the physically ill or handicapped child: a review.

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Words and Wards: A Model of Reflective Writing and Its Uses in Medical Education

    Johanna Shapiro;Deborah Kasman;Audrey Shafer

  • Contributions to depression in Latina mothers with and without children with retardation: Implications for caregiving

    Jan Blacher;Steven Lopez;Johanna Shapiro;Judith Fusco

  • Depression in Latina mothers of children with mental retardation: A neglected concern.

    J Blacher;J Shapiro;S Lopez;L Diaz

  • How do physicians teach empathy in the primary care setting

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Can Poetry Make Better Doctors? Teaching the Humanities and Arts to Medical Students and Residents at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine

    Johanna Shapiro;Lloyd Rucker

  • Latina mothers' attributions, emotions, and reactions to the problem behaviors of their children with developmental disabilities.

    Víctor Chavira;Steven R. López;Jan Blacher;Johanna Shapiro

  • Alienated advocacy: perspectives of Latina mothers of young adults with developmental disabilities on service systems.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lilia D. Monzó;Robert Rueda;Juan A. Gomez

  • Illness narratives: reliability, authenticity and the empathic witness

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Resident doctors' understanding of their roles as clinical teachers.

    Elizabeth H Morrison;Johanna F Shapiro;Miriam Harthill

  • Point-of-view writing: A method for increasing medical students' empathy, identification and expression of emotion, and insight.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lloyd Rucker;John Boker;Desiree Lie

  • Generational differences in psychosocial adaptation and predictors of psychological distress in a population of recent Vietnamese immigrants.

    J Shapiro;K Douglas;O de la Rocha;S Radecki

  • Sexual Behavior and AIDS-Related Knowledge among Community College Students in Orange County, California

    Johanna Shapiro;Stephen Radecki;Arthur S. Charchian;Valerie Josephson

  • Primary care resident, faculty, and patient views of barriers to cultural competence, and the skills needed to overcome them.

    Johanna Shapiro;Judy Hollingshead;Elizabeth H Morrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Blacher
Jan Blacher University of California, Riverside
Steven R. López
Steven R. López University of Southern California
Shauna L. Shapiro
Shauna L. Shapiro Santa Clara University

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