Alla Shapiro Author

Alla Shapiro was born in Ukraine, USSR, and was a first physician-responder to the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Following years of discrimination as a Jewish citizen of the Soviet Union, Alla and her extended family immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s. She completed a residency in general pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. From 2003 to 2019, Dr. Shapiro worked as a medical officer at the Counterterrorism and Emergency Coordination Staff at the US Food and Drug Administration.