Michael A Shapiro

Michael A Shapiro, M.D.

Associate Professor

Department: MD-PSYCHIATRY
Business Phone: (352) 265-8680
Business Email: mshapiro@ufl.edu

About Michael A Shapiro

Michael Shapiro, MD, is an associate professor in the University of Florida department of psychiatry. Board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, Dr. Shapiro is the Medical Director of UF Child Psychiatry and Psychology at Springhill.

Dr. Shapiro received his bachelor’s degree from UF in 2005 and finished medical school there in 2008. He continued at UF and completed a residency in psychiatry in 2011 and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry in 2013. 

Dr. Shapiro is a fellow with the American Psychiatric Association. He also is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Florida Psychiatric Society and the North Central Florida Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a PRITE© Editorial Board Member for the American College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Association for Academic Psychiatry. In 2014, he won the AACAP Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Award.

 

Specializing in adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, Dr. Shapiro also has experience treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, disruptive behavior disorders and substance use disorders.

Accomplishments

Psychiatric Fellow
2021 · American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Distinguished Fellow
2019 · American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Victor J. Teichner Award
2019 · AADPDP and AADPRT
Psychodynamic Faculty Training and Mentorship Initiative
2018 · American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
UF Research Promotion Initiative Award
2018 · University of Florida
Early Career Development Award
2017 · Association of Academic Psychiatry
Exemplary Teaching Award
2016-2017 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Fellow
2014 · American Psychiatric Association
Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Award
2014 · American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Chief Child Fellow
2012-2013 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Child PRITE Fellow
2011-2013 · American College of Psychiatrists
John Kuldau Memorial Research Award, PGY-3
2011 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
John E. Adams Memorial Overall Achievement Award
2009-2011 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2013-2023
MDU4004 Physician Shadowing
2015-2018
MDT7840 Elect Top/Psychiatry
2018
PAS5125 Psychiatry
2018
MDC7830 Psychiatry Clerkship
2018
BMS6812 Intro Clin Med 2
2021-2023
PAS5020 Intro to Medicine 2
2021-2022
MDU4001 Introduction to Medical Science Seminar 1

Board Certifications

  • Adult Psychiatry
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Psychiatry
Subspecialties
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Areas of Interest
  • Adolescent depression
  • Adolescent development
  • Behavior – unusual or strange
  • Child neglect and emotional abuse
  • Hyperactivity and children
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Puberty and adolescence
  • Separation anxiety in children
  • Suicide and suicidal behavior

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0001-7811-2764

Publications

2023
Using Analogies to Help Adolescents Unlearn Self-Blame
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 62(3):282-284 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaac.2022.06.013.
2022
Psychodynamic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Future of Our Field
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 61(6):739-741 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.022.
2022
PTSD Following Suicide Attempts in Adolescents: a Case Series.
Journal of child & adolescent trauma. 15(1):149-154 [DOI] 10.1007/s40653-021-00380-y. [PMID] 35222781.
2022
Using the Psychiatry Resident-In-Training Examination (PRITE) to Assess the Psychiatry Medical Knowledge Milestones in Psychiatry.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. 46(3):331-337 [DOI] 10.1007/s40596-021-01537-5. [PMID] 34623622.
2021
Adolescent Suicide and Self Injury: Mentalizing Theory and Treatment
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 60(11):1434-1435 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.08.014.
2021
Competence vs. Identity, Trainees vs. Physicians: How COVID-19 Has Highlighted Role Confusion in Residency Training
Academic Psychiatry. 45(5):545-548 [DOI] 10.1007/s40596-020-01346-2. [PMID] 33098027.
2019
Increased Rates of Mental Health Service Utilization by U.S. College Students.
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 70(6) [DOI] 10.1176/appi.ps.201800571. [PMID] 31154965.
2019
Raise Concerns Without Fear and Protect Confidentiality: Why the Two Orders?
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. 43(1):128-130 [DOI] 10.1007/s40596-018-0891-9. [PMID] 29500639.
2018
Pediatric Depression: When Does Parental Refusal for Treatment Constitute Medical Neglect?
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 57(6):363-365 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.02.014.
2017
Transgender Youth in the Inpatient Psychiatric Setting: A Literature Review and Case Report.
Journal of psychiatric practice. 23(4):290-293 [DOI] 10.1097/PRA.0000000000000244. [PMID] 28749834.
2016
Topiramate, Zonisamide and Weight Loss in Children and Adolescents Prescribed Psychiatric Medications: a Medical Record Review
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 51(1):56-68 [DOI] 10.1177/0091217415621266.
2015
Recurrence of conversion disorder symptoms in a successfully treated 16-year-old female.
International journal of psychiatry in medicine. 50(4):361-9 [DOI] 10.1177/0091217415612720. [PMID] 26510710.
2014
A review of the use of clonidine as a sleep aid in the child and adolescent population.
Clinical pediatrics. 53(3):211-6 [DOI] 10.1177/0009922813502123. [PMID] 24027233.
2014
Recurrence of Conversion Disorder Symptoms in a Successfully Treated 16-Year-Old Female: What Went Right, and What Went Wrong
Psychosomatic Medicine. 76(3)
2014
Severe anorexia nervosa in a 20-year-old male with pericardial effusion and cortical atrophy.
International journal of psychiatry in medicine. 48(2):95-102 [DOI] 10.2190/PM.48.2.b. [PMID] 25377150.
2013
Obtaining informed consent from a 45-year-old woman with dissociative identity disorder.
The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry. 47(11) [DOI] 10.1177/0004867413492224. [PMID] 23716729.
2013
Zonisamide for weight loss in adolescents.
The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG. 18(4):311-4 [DOI] 10.5863/1551-6776-18.4.311. [PMID] 24719592.
2012
A case of severe adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder treated with inpatient hospitalization, risperidone and sertraline.
Journal of behavioral addictions. 1(2):78-82 [DOI] 10.1556/JBA.1.2012.2.6. [PMID] 26165310.
2012
Clinical utility of lisdexamfetamine for the management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Clinical Medicine Insights-Therapeutics. 4:85-95
2012
Zonisamide for Attenuation of Weight Gain in a Morbidly-Obese Adolescent on an Antipsychotic
. 2(4):1-4
2011
Psychological sequelae of Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy.
Child abuse & neglect. 35(2):87-8 [DOI] 10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.10.005. [PMID] 21377205.
2011
Scheduled low-dose risperidone for agitation in elderly patients
. 19(2):40-43
2011
When a Non-Epileptic Seizures Fool the Experts: Case Report
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 42(3):333-341
2011
When non-epileptic seizures fool the experts.
International journal of psychiatry in medicine. 42(3):331-8 [PMID] 22439300.
2010
Prevalence and characteristics of punding and repetitive behaviors among Parkinson patients in North-Central Florida
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 25:540-541
2010
Prevalence and characteristics of punding and repetitive behaviors among Parkinson patients in North-Central Florida.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 25(5):540-1 [DOI] 10.1002/gps.2324. [PMID] 20391589.
2010
Psychosocial stress and abdominal pain in adolescents
. 7(2):65-69
2009
Social and cognitive factors associated with preventative health care behaviors of culturally diverse adolescents.
Journal of the National Medical Association. 101(3):236-42 [PMID] 19331255.
2008
Compulsive Behaviors Ii: Compulsive Behaviors Versus Impulse Control Disorders: a Single-Center Experience From the University of Florida Movement Disorders Center
Movement Disorders. 23:1335-1336
2007
The four As associated with pathological Parkinson disease gamblers: anxiety, anger, age, and agonists.
Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment. 3(1):161-7 [PMID] 19300546.
2006
Hypersexuality and paraphilia induced by selegiline in Parkinson’s disease: report of 2 cases.
Parkinsonism & related disorders. 12(6):392-5 [PMID] 16730214.

Education

Fellowship – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2013 · University of Florida
Residency – Psychiatry
2011 · University of Florida
Medical Degree
2008 · University of Florida
Bachelor of Science
2005 · University of Florida

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 265-8680
Emails:
Business:
mshapiro@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO BOX 100256
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
GAINESVILLE FL 326100256
Business Street:
8491 NW 39TH AVENUE
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
GAINESVILLE FL 32606