Chair, Department of Medicine

Mark L. Zeidel, MD

Herman Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Mark Zeidel, who was born at the Beth Israel Hospital, has chaired the department for the past 20 years. While emphasizing our culture of excellence and caring, he has pushed the department to improve constantly in its patient care, teaching, and research missions. A nephrologist and physiologist by training, he has focused his personal efforts on advancing renal physiology, improving the quality of care for patients, and enhancing the training of students, residents, and fellows in basic science and its application to clinical care.

 

               

Mark Zeidel, who was born at the Beth Israel Hospital, has chaired the department for the past 20 years. While emphasizing our culture of excellence and caring, he has pushed the department to improve constantly in its patient care, teaching, and research missions. A nephrologist and physiologist by training, he has focused his personal efforts on advancing renal physiology, improving the quality of care for patients, and enhancing the training of students, residents, and fellows in basic science and its application to clinical care.

 

               

About Medicine

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (HMFP) Department of Medicine’s 12 clinical divisions and nine research divisions combine to provide expert, compassionate patient care, to further knowledge through cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical research and to educate the next generation of healthcare leaders through superbly effective and innovative teaching programs. Our culture informs our practice in all our missions: as we seek constantly to provide the kind of care to every person that we would want our own family members to receive, as we perform research which has a strong impact on improving health, and as we strive to educate our students and trainees to become outstanding clinicians and leaders in clinical care, teaching, and research.

The Department endeavors to create an environment where our physicians can thrive and forge their own paths as leading clinicians, educators, and/or researchers. We are home to numerous societies and programs focused on wellness, DEI, mentorship, professional development, research excellence, and more. Our faculty are hands-on educators as we train students, residents, and fellows as a core site for HMS students and through our Internal Medicine Residency and 27 specialty Fellowship programs. Our physicians provide 315,000+ outpatient visits annually and our primary care practice, HealthCare Associates, cares for 40,500+ patients in the Greater Boston Area.

Departments

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP) includes 13 specialty clinical departments. HMFP has more than 2,200 specialty physicians and advanced practice professionals, providing services across the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) system, and other hospitals across eastern Massachusetts. To learn more about a specific department, click below.