In her role as Vice President and Medical Director for U.S. Individual Life, Dr. Maryam Shapland supports RGA clients through medical consultations, expert opinions, and via training and education for underwriting departments. Maryam is both an experienced clinical practitioner and insurance medical director. She joined RGA in 2020.
Prior to RGA, Maryam was an Associate Medical Director for Securian Financial and served as an attending emergency physician for Health East Care System. She trained in emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Maryam received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and a Global Health Certificate from the University of Manchester. She is board-certified in both insurance medicine and emergency medicine. She is past president of the Midwestern Medical Directors Association, is on the Board of Insurance Medicine at the American Academy of Insurance Medicine (AAIM) and was a former member of the AAIM Education Committee. She is also member of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Maryam is a contributor to the Academy of Life Underwriting (ALU) underwriting textbook and served as Medical Consultant for the ALU.