Using a Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Platform to Drive Practice Success – on demand

Dr. Loria graduated from the University of Navarre School of Medicine, Pamplona, Spain, a leading European academic medical center. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Sinai Hospital, Baltimore. He then completed a fellowship in adult and pediatric allergy and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.  

 He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has been board certified three times by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Loria founded and for 30 years directed one of the largest specialty practices in allergy and immunology in Northern Virginia, with offices in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. The practice equally served both adults and children, addressing the spectrum of allergic disorders as well as complex immune deficiency states.   

 For more than 15 years, Dr. Loria was selected by his peers as “Top Doctor” in The Washingtonian and Northern Virginia magazines. Dr. Loria developed proficiency in practice management, developed patient safety protocols, and frequently lectured to his medical colleagues in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.  

 After 30 years in private practice, Dr. Loria joined the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., with an appointment through the Department of Pediatrics, as Associate Professor, Allergy and Immunology. During his tenure at VCU, Dr. Loria was responsible for overseeing the clinical activities of division fellows, medical residents, and medical students, as well as lecturing on a regular basis for the division of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Loria maintains a telehealth practice in Virginia. Dr. Loria is fluent in Spanish and English. 

Dr. Shapiro joined EBSCO in April 2022 as a physician consultant. He is works regular shifts in the emergency department (ED) at Massachusetts General Hospital and has been faculty at Harvard Medical School. Previously, he took over the medical leadership of Partners in 2018 (now Mass General Brigham Urgent Care) and led its transition from a joint venture to a wholly owned subsidiary.  

Dr. Shapiro graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1989 and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in 1993. Dr. Shapiro’s areas of expertise are teamwork training, medical simulation, patient safety and ED operations.    

While at Brown University he founded the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center. While there he focused on teamwork training as part of the MedTeams® project and was part of a pioneering investigative teams funded by AHRQ to develop a Center for Safety in Emergency Care.  After 12 years of academic practice, he transitioned to work in a community critical access hospital on Martha’s Vineyard. While practicing community Emergency Medicine he continued in leadership roles as Vice Chief of Medical Staff and Chairman of the Patient Safety Committee.   

He joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale in 2011, initially serving as the Director of Patient Safety and Quality and then as Medical Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital ED on the newly acquired Saint Raphael's Campus. He was responsible for the complex and comprehensive integration of the ED into the overall acute clinical care delivery service line of the Yale-New Haven Health System. His efforts resulted in a more geriatric friendly ED and improvement in the quality of geriatric patient care.