Dr Nella Shapiro, Bronx Breast Cancer Surgery

Nella Irene Shapiro, M.D. is the director of breast surgery at the Eastchester Center for Cancer Care. She is assistant clinical professor in the combined departments of surgery at the Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center. She has served as chief of general surgery at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and associate director of surgery at the Jack D. Weiler Hospital.

A graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Shapiro interned and did her residency at Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, where she was the first woman to complete the general surgery residency. She also introduced the technique of laparoscopic cholecystectomy at the Jack D. Weiler Hospital. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.