Dr. Michael E. Shapiro is an Associate Scholar in the Center for Population-Level Bioethics. He is also Associate Professor of Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.  Dr. Shapiro is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He trained in General Surgery at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and did a post-doctoral fellowship in Immunology at Harvard. He served as Chief of Organ Transplantation at both Beth Israel and Hackensack University Medical Center. Dr. Shapiro has worked in transplant ethics and organ allocation for almost 30 years, having served as Chair of the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Ethics Committee. He chairs the University Hospital Bioethics Committee and its clinical consultation service. He has been active in the movement to reform organ harvesting in China. His scholarly work is related to ethical issues at the end-of-life, and their interaction with transplantation.