About Me
My role as a pediatric urologist at NYU Langone is driven by a commitment to delivering patient-focused care. I believe in the importance of fostering trust and confidence with both parents and their children, ensuring that each patient receives empathetic and comprehensive treatment. While I enjoyed all aspects of urology, I was drawn to pediatric urology because of the life-changing impact of performing complex reconstructive surgeries for infants to adolescents.
My extensive training and experience enable me to provide advanced treatments that prioritize patient comfort and swift recovery. I am dedicated to staying at the forefront of medical advancements to offer the best possible care to my patients. In this light, I have devoted my research endeavours to furthering our understanding of normal and abnormal genitourinary development.
Over the years, I have had the privilege of treating thousands of children and have been actively involved in the education and mentorship of nearly 100 urology residents, many of whom have gone on to become prominent figures in the field. It is incredibly fulfilling to see the long-term positive outcomes of my work and to maintain connections with many of my former patients and their families.
My journey in medicine began with a surgical internship and resident year at the Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by a two-year clinical fellowship in the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute. I then began the urology residency at Johns Hopkins, where I was the first woman to complete the residency program. I completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and began my career as an academic pediatric urologist. I joined the faculty at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in 1993 as professor and chief of pediatric urology. Inspired by my significant impact on young patients’ lives, I dedicated myself to pediatric urology and continue to strive for excellence in patient care and medical education.
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- bladder exstrophy and epispadias
- circumcision concerns
- congenital posterior urethral valve
- difficulty urinating
- ectopic ureter
- enlarged kidney
- hernia
- hydrocele testis
- hydronephrosis
- hypospadias
- imperforate hymen
- kidney stones
- labial adhesions
- meatal stenosis
- neurogenic bladder
- obstructed megaureter
- obstructed vagina
- penile adhesions, skin bridges
- posterior urethral valves/anterior urethral valves
- prenatal hydronephrosis
- pyelectasis
- tethered spinal cord/ lipomeningocele
- undescended testicle
- ureterocele
- ureteropelvic junction (upj) obstruction
- urinary tract infections
- urinary tract obstruction: prenatal and postnatal
- vaginal abnormalities
- vaginal adhesions
- varicocele
- vesicoureteral reflux
Learn more about conditions we treat at NYU Langone:
Congenital Kidney & Urinary Tract Problems , Hypospadias in Children , Undescended Testicles in ChildrenCredentials
Positions
- Professor, Department of Urology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Director, Pediatric Urology
Board Certifications
- American Board of Urology (Pediatric Urology), 2008
- American Board of Urology - Urology, 1988
Education and Training
- Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Pediatric Urology, 1987
- Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Urology, 1986
- Fellowship, National Cancer Institute, Surgery Oncology, 1982
- Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, General Surgery, 1980
- MD from University Of Nebraska, 1978
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Aetna
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Hotel Trades Council
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Humana
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Local 1199
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Magnacare
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Medicare
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Metroplus
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Ellen Shapiro, MD does not accept insurance.
Locations and Appointments
NYU Langone Urology Associates
222 East 41st Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Research My Research
Interests
fetal prostate
Research Summary
The ability to prevent and effectively treat benign and malignant diseases of the prostate requires defining specific factors that initiate, promote, and maintain prostatic growth. Our laborartory has been focusing on the regulation of prostatic growth and characterizing it in the human fetus. The development of the human fetal prostate is an androgen-dependent event possibly mediated by growth factor that are elaborated by the prostatic mesenchyme. Our current projects include investigation the biology of prostatic growth regulation at the molecular, cellular, and organ level to demonstrate that: 1) the proliferative activity of the human prostate is intense during fetal development; 2) the fetal prostate is primarily mesenchyme and the mesenchyme induces glandular formation; 3) fetal proliferation of the human prostate is characterized by temporal and cellular compartmental expression of growth factors and their receptors; and 4) steriod hormone receptors are expressed by the mesenchyme during fetal development of the prostate.
Using double immunoenzymatic staining and color-assisted computer image analysis, techniques we develooped, we examine fetal prostates histologically to determine the cellular composition. We than examine the macroscopoic interactions between the mesenchyme and epithelium using three-dimensional reconstruction to investigate: the interrelationships between prostatic growth, cellular proliferative activity, cellular composition, the expression of growth factors, and steriod receptors implications related to the regulation of prostatic growth and, ultimately, the regulation of prostatic diseases.
Academic Contact
Academic office
222 East 41st Street
11th Floor
New York, NY 10017
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Research Interests Timeline
Publications
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Ruoff, Rachel; Weber, Hannah; Wang, Ying; Huang, Hongying; Shapiro, Ellen; Fenyö, David; Garabedian, Michael J
Scientific reports. 2023 Oct 25; 13(1):18227
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Xia, Yong; Wang, Xing; Liu, Yan; Shapiro, Ellen; Lepor, Herbert; Tang, Moon-Shong; Sun, Tung-Tien; Wu, Xue-Ru
Cancer research. 2022 Feb 15; 82(4):571-585
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Liao, Yi; Chang, Hung-Chi; Liang, Feng-Xia; Chung, Pei-Jung; Wei, Yuan; Nguyen, Tuan-Phi; Zhou, Ge; Talebian, Sheeva; Krey, Lewis C; Deng, Fang-Ming; Wong, Tak-Wah; Chicote, Javier U; Grifo, James A; Keefe, David L; Shapiro, Ellen; Lepor, Herbert; Wu, Xue-Ru; DeSalle, Robert; Garcia-España, Antonio; Kim, Sang Yong; Sun, Tung-Tien
Molecular biology of the cell. 2018 Oct 10; mbcE18080496