Authority-verified surgeon

Shapiro Medical Group

Minneapolis, United States

Ronald (Ron) Shapiro, MD ✓ verified

4.3 composite score 49 reviews · 1 platform low confidence

Shapiro Medical Group is a hair-transplant clinic with an authority-verified surgeon in Minneapolis, led by Ronald (Ron) Shapiro, MD (verified in an authority-body directory). Cross-checked against 7 independent sources; ratings below are shown per platform, unblended.

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4.3 Google 49 reviews

Surgeon & safety signals

What Reddit and forum users actually argue about: who does the work, and whether it's a "hair mill". We state only what's verified; the rest is honestly marked not disclosed.

Hair-mill riskLow

ISHRS / authority memberYes, directory-verified

Years in hair restorationNot stated

Named surgeonYes

Doctor performs incisionsYes

Doctor performs extractionYes

Surgeon involvementOne-patient-per-day model. Physician (Dr. Ron Shapiro / Dr. Paul Shapiro / Dr. Wesley) makes ALL recipient-site incisions and performs donor work; technical staff do most graft placement under continual physician oversight.

Technician involvementExperienced in-house technical staff place grafts; physician checks placement continually throughout

Procedures per day1 patient/day

Revision rateNot disclosed

Surgeons

Ronald (Ron) Shapiro, MD verified

Founder/Medical Director; ISHRS FISHRS and Board of Governors member; ABHRS diplomate; ISHRS Golden Follicle Award 2005; co-author of leading hair transplant textbook

Paul Shapiro, MD verified

ABHRS diplomate; ISHRS member; hair restoration surgeon at Shapiro Medical Group

Dave Josephitis, MD verified

ABHRS diplomate; ISHRS member; hair restoration surgeon at Shapiro Medical Group

Surgeon experience & credentials

Sourced E-E-A-T signals for the lead surgeon. Self-reported figures are marked; everything else is cited below.

Fellowship / board: FISHRS (Fellow of the ISHRS); ABHRS Diplomate since 1997 (one of the first physicians in the U.S. to be certified); IAHRS member
Years performing HT: 36+ years
Publications: Co-editor/named contributor of the textbook 'Hair Transplantation' (Unger & Shapiro); peer-reviewed publications on microscopic Follicular Unit Transplantation. Verify on PubMed under 'Shapiro R'.
Conference / society roles: First physician invited to perform a live surgery demonstrating Microscopic Follicular Unit Transplantation for peers at the ISHRS Annual Meeting (Las Vegas, 1995)
Awards: ISHRS Golden Follicle Award (2005), presented at the ISHRS annual meeting in Sydney, Australia

Pricing

Not multi-source verified

Contact

Website	shapiromedical.com/
Phone	(952) 926-2933
Google Maps	View on Maps
Accreditations	ABHRS, ISHRS (FISHRS + Board of Governors), IAHRS

Notable

Hair-transplant-specialized since 1990; one-patient-per-day model; FUE, FUT, BHT and SMP. Three ABHRS-diplomate surgeons (Ron Shapiro, Paul Shapiro, Dave Josephitis).

Sources & verification

Last verified 2026-07-12 · placed by verification, never by payment.

Editorial note: VERIFIED via ISHRS directory (doctor/36920, Ron Shapiro FISHRS + Board of Governors), clinic About page confirming all three surgeons as ABHRS diplomates/ISHRS members, Hair Transplant Network, XYON clinic spotlight, and Yelp (38 reviews). ADVERSARIAL FLAG: original candidate's price range '$8,000-$20,000' and the '9.6/10 (534 reviews)' figure came from aggregator hairlosstype.com and are NOT independently verified — dropped price from output. Added Dave Josephitis as a third named current principal found during verification.