Jack Shapiro 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. Often quoted in industry, general business and lay publications, Jack has been a frequent guest on national television and radio broadcasts, and commentator on healthcare trends in the United States and overseas. Jack has also been the host, producer, and writer of "MediPolitics," a nationally-syndicated radio show about the future of healthcare which reached more than 31 million people each week on commercial radio and the Internet.

Jack has spent over thirty years in the healthcare field, both domestically and performing projects abroad. Before forming his two successful companies, Jack M. Shapiro Healthcare Marketing Research and Management Consulting, INC. and New Paradigm Healthcare Marketing, INC., Jack held high-level management positions in marketing and market-research with healthcare giants such as The American Home Products Corporation (Ayerst Laboratories Division), American Cyanamid (Lederle Laboratories Division), Pfizer International, E.R. Squibb, and Upjohn International.

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.

Drawing upon more than thirty years experience in the healthcare industry, public opinion studies and a background in television and radio as a commentator on healthcare trends, Jack Shapiro is a well-known public speaker whose special area of interest is the future of healthcare. Laced with humorous insights, anecdotes, facts and figures, Jack has addressed audiences from coast-to-coast regarding 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.

Most Requested Topics:

• The American Public's Mood About Healthcare at the Turn of the Century
• Some of the Ethical Dilemmas We Will Encounter
• Are We Heading Towards Single-Payer Healthcare?
• The Political Leadership Vacuum in Healthcare
• Why We Are Becoming The "The Healthcare Economy"