Dr. Steven Weinberger is Excutive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP), Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Prior to assuming the role of EVP/CEO in 2010, he served for six years as ACP’s Senior Vice President for Medical Education and Publishing. Before joining the ACP in 2004, Dr. Weinberger was on the full-time faculty of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (formerly Beth Israel Hospital) for 26 years. Most recently, he had served simultaneously as Executive Director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and as Professor of Medicine and Faculty Associate Dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Weinberger is a graduate of Princeton University (summa cum laude) and Harvard Medical School. He received his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California – San Francisco Medical Center, followed by clinical and research fellowship training in Pulmonary Medicine at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He was a member of the faculty of Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School from 1978-2004, and in addition to the most recent positions he held, at various times he also served as Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Associate Chairman of Medicine for Education, and Firm Chief on the Medical Service. He held numerous educational leadership roles at Harvard Medical School, and with his most recent responsibility as Executive Director of the Shapiro Institute, he was actively involved in educational innovation both locally and at a national level. He co-directed three national working conferences on medical education and educational reform, entitled Millennium Conferences I, II, and III, which were co-sponsored by the Shapiro Institute and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Dr. Weinberger has received many teaching awards at Harvard Medical School and at Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2001 he received the Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from Alpha Omega Alpha and the Association of American Medical Colleges, and in 2008 he received the Clinical Educator Award from the Clinical Problems Assembly of the American Thoracic Society. He is the author of a popular textbook entitled Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, which is now in its 5th edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. He has written numerous original and review articles as well as multiple chapters for the leading textbooks of internal medicine. He was the Editor of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine section of the American College of Physician’s MKSAP X, served as a member of the Editorial Board of The New England Journal of Medicine from 1992-2000, and was for 10 years (since its inception and until taking his current position at ACP) the Editor-in-Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine section of UpToDate, a popular computer-based clinical and educational resource. Dr. Weinberger is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians, and he recently served as President of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association (from 2008-10).