Steven E. Weinberger, MD, MACP, FRCP
MD Curriculum Working Group Member
Steven Weinberger, MD, MACP, FRCP, retired in September, 2016 from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer (EVP/CEO) of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization for internal medicine and the largest medical specialty society in the United States. He assumed the position of EVP/CEO in 2010, after having served for 6 years as ACP’s Senior Vice President for Medical Education and Publishing. An internist and pulmonologist, Dr. Weinberger is also Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and supervises medical students and physicians in pulmonary fellowship training.
Prior to joining ACP, Dr. Weinberger served on the full-time faculty at Harvard Medical School for more than 25 years. He was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard and at various times served as Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at BIDMC, Executive Director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, and Faculty Associate Dean for Medical Education at Harvard. Dr. Weinberger has authored more than 150 articles and book chapters as well as a popular textbook, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, now in its seventh edition and translated into multiple languages. He has served on the Editorial Board of The New England Journal of Medicine and was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine component of UpToDate, the most widely used clinical and decision-support resource for physicians. Dr. Weinberger has been on the boards of several healthcare-related organizations and has served as President of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association and as President of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
Dr. Weinberger received his M.D. from Harvard and residency training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, followed by fellowship training in pulmonary medicine at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. He is the recipient of numerous Harvard Medical School and national teaching awards, including the Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Weinberger has been named a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has received the Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Medical Association, the Pressman Award for Distinguished Service to Internal Medicine from the Pennsylvania Chapter of ACP, and in appreciation of his leadership of ACP, the organization’s Board of Regents established a new annual award, the Steven E. Weinberger Award for Physician Executives/Leaders.