Jack M. Shapiro is an internationally known authority on healthcare trends, marketing and marketing research. He is the principal of Jack M. Shapiro Healthcare Marketing Research and Management Consulting, Inc., an extremely successful network of independent healthcare marketing researchers and consultants. The organization has exclusively served the healthcare industry since 1988.
Jack has spent over 30 years in the healthcare field, including twenty years in senior marketing and marketing research positions in the pharmaceutical industry with the international or domestic divisions of such giants as Pfizer, Wyeth, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Jack is a highly sought-after speaker on the future of healthcare and a great resource for media. He has appeared on many of the nation's top television networks, such as ABC, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox, PBS, and abroad on BBC and ITN as well as countless radio shows. From 1997 – 1999, Jack was the host of the national radio show, “Medi-Politics” heard coast-to-coast by an audience of 31 million people.
Jack Shapiro's background includes twenty years senior marketing and market research experience in the pharmaceutical industry with the international of domestic divisions of such giants as Pfizer, Wyeth, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He is a marketing researcher and consultant to the healthcare industry as well as a broadcast journalist and public speaker on healthcare issues. He includes among his clients major pharmaceutical companies, advertising agencies, hospitals, and manufacturers of medical equipment, supplies and devices and insurance companies.
Jack holds a B.A. in history and economics from the University of Miami and did his graduate work in international business, economics and marketing at The American Graduate School for International Management and Western Michigan University.
He is currently writing a book about the future of healthcare, based on his long career in this field, interviews conducted on his radio show, and a major national survey of American consumers.
Laced with humorous insights, anecdotes, facts and figures, Jack's speaking engagements have wowed audiences from coast-to-coast as he explains where the American healthcare system is heading in the new milleneum. Throughout his speeches, Jack draws references to the trends he discussed on his radio show and in his book: the future of healthcare, its politics, medical ethics and legal developments. As a medical historian, Jack traces these trends over time and compares where we are and where we are going to previous generations on the verge of great transitions.