Hear candid conversations between people conquering cancer – patients, their family and friends, and doctors and researchers working to help us all.
Dr. Schapira talks to her daughter, Lauren Goldstein, about her career and how her work often accompanied grief.
A Lasting Desire to Help People with Cancer
It was inevitable that Lidia Schapira would become a doctor. Growing up, her father was a physician, so she experienced his passion for helping his patients and cultivated her own love for helping people heal.
Dr. Schapira graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and trained at the Beth Israel Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her deep love for helping people led her to focus her research on improving communication between patients and physicians, and she is now an international expert on doctor-patient communication.
In 2015, Dr. Schapira became the editor in chief of Cancer.Net, our patient information website, where she champions patient education.
