Bryan B. Shapiro

Biography

Bryan B. Shapiro, M.D., M.P.H., is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UC Irvine Medical Center. He received his medical degree from The Medical School for International Health in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center and completed his psychiatry residency at UC Irvine Medical Center. Shapiro serves as Director of Psychopharmacology for the UCI/UCD Train New Trainers Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship and Director of Psychiatry eConsults at UC Irvine Medical Center.

Shapiro's work focuses on psychopharmacology and the safe discontinuation of psychiatric medications. He is an Associate of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and serves as an Advisor to the U.S. Psychotropic Deprescribing Council. His research on antidepressant withdrawal has been featured in National Geographic and the American Psychiatric Association Medical Mind Podcast. He has published extensively on psychiatric medication management, including work examining serotonin transporter occupancy at subtherapeutic doses of antidepressants and establishing core symptoms of acute serotonin reuptake inhibitor withdrawal through international surveys.

Shapiro is the author of "The Psychopharmacology Blue Book: Outpatient Practice Companion" and has contributed chapters to "The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines" and the "Primary Care Psychiatry Textbook." He teaches advanced psychopharmacology to psychiatry residents and primary care psychiatry fellows at UC Irvine and serves as a senior consultant for Outro Health, Inc. Prior to his psychiatric training, Shapiro conducted research in nephrology and hemodialysis at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

Education

• B.A. in Neuroscience, Pomona College, 2011
• M.P.H. in Public Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, 2012
• M.D., The Medical School for International Health in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center, 2017

Distinctions

• National Chess Master, United States Chess Federation, 2020
• Board Certification, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2021