Steven Weinberger, MD, FACP, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP), will deliver the 2011 President’s Lecture, “Challenges for the Subspecialist in the Era of Healthcare Reform,” at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

Steven Weinberger, MD, FACP

“Healthcare is at a crossroads, and we wonder how the current political climate will affect our practice of medicine,” said ATS President Dean E. Schraufnagel, MD. “I asked Dr. Weinberger to give the Presidential Lecture on how legislative changes and the current political environment will affect us.”

Dr. Weinberger assumed the top position at the ACP in July 2010. An internist and pulmonologist, he is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Prior to joining ACP, Dr. Weinberger served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 25 years. He was executive vice chair of the department of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, executive director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, and professor of medicine and faculty associate dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Weinberger authored a popular textbook, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, now in its fifth edition. He has written numerous original and review articles and multiple chapters for the leading textbooks of internal medicine, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. He was editor of the pulmonary and critical care medicine section of the American College of Physicians’ Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program 10. He served on the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine from 1992 to 2000, and, before joining ACP, was pulmonary and critical care medicine editor-in-chief for UpToDate.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Weinberger completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in pulmonary medicine at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.