Michael J. Zinner, MD
Adjunct Professor
The Heller School of Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Moseley Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Chair
Department of Surgery
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Chair, Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital/EH&E
Biography
Dr. Michael J. Zinner is the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Surgeon-in-Chief at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Clinical Director of the Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center.
He is a member of the editorial boards of several surgical journals, including Annals of Surgery, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. He is the past and current Editor for “Maingot’s Abdominal Operations”, a world wide textbook and atlas of gastrointestinal surgery.
Dr. Zinner was past President of the Association for Academic Surgery, past President of the Society of the University Surgeons and past President of the Society of Surgical Chairman. He has previously served as a Director of the American Board of Surgery, a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and a member of the Board of Directors of Collegium Internationale Chirurgiac Digestivae. In 2008, he received the National Award for the Advancement of Women in Surgery from the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS). He was the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) from 2008 to 2010 and is now a Regent of the College.
In 2004, he established the Center for Surgery and Public Health, a collaboration between the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, focused on healthcare, quality, safety and effectiveness and global surgical care. The CSPH has mentored many national prominent surgeons into important positions all over the globe. His current interests include these areas and the national debate on health care reform. He is active in local, regional and national organizations on health care policies and is Vice Chairman of the American College of Surgeons Health Care Policy and Advocacy Committee – representing 75,000 Fellows of the ACS. For the past 4 years he has taught courses on health care at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He was recently appointed Adjunct Professor there. He has been on the Boards of several hospitals and health care systems across the country and was asked to be a member of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Committee in 2014.
Dr. Zinner remains a busy clinician and his clinical focus centers on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He enjoys his practice and interactions with residents and students, and has received teaching awards for both.