Dr Nina Shapiro is a paediatrician who is the Director of Paediatric Otolaryngology and a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Cornell University and has spent more than two decades working in clinical and academic medicine. 

As well as being a paediatric surgeon, Dr. Shapiro is the author of ‘HYPE: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice, and two other books. She writes regularly for several notable publications and has appeared on various talk shows to discuss medicine. Her views have been published in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, NPR and BBC.