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ston Medical Center, BU\u2019s primary teaching hospital, have hired Anthony \u201cTony\u201d Hollenberg as BUSM’s new chair of the Department of Medicine and BMC\u2019s chief of medicine and physician-in-chief. Hollenberg, an endocrinologist who will also be the John Wade Professor at BUSM, will arrive in the fall, replacing David Coleman, who announced his plans in 2021 to step down.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly the mission of BMC is even greater now, Hollenberg told\u00a0<\/span>BU Today<\/em>, a reference to how Covid-19 impacted society. \u00a0\u201cWe learned during the pandemic that those from under represented populations or with poor access to healthcare experienced greater illness and higher death rates especially during the early phases of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n He described the pandemic as \u201cdoing an MRI on our healthcare system\u201d because of how it exposed the inequities in the delivery of healthcare. BMC in tandem with BU\u2019s academic excellence are poised to\u00a0lead efforts to improve \u00a0our health care system in Boston and nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n Hollenberg is currently the chair of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and physician-in-chief at New York-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Previously, he was chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism of and vice chair for mentoring at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n A native of Toronto (he confesses he\u2019s a Blue Jays fan but also said he loves the Bruins), and a leading physician-scientist specializing in endocrinology, Hollenberg completed his residency in internal medicine at BIDMC, followed by a clinical and research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. His work focuses on thyroid disorders, specifically investigating the physiological and molecular mechanisms by which thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, including body weight.<\/p>\n His lab explored the underpinnings of thyroid gland development; he\u2019s published nearly 100\u00a0original studies.<\/p>\n In a joint note, Karen Antman, dean of BUSM and provost of the Medical Campus, and Kate Walsh, BMC president and CEO, wrote of Hollenberg: \u201cUnder his leadership, the department will cultivate and attract top talent in academic medicine and research while also fostering and mentoring emerging talent, advancing our core missions and raising BUSM\/BMC\u2019s national profile even further.\u201d<\/p>\n Mentoring, Hollenberg said, is an important part of his role he looks forward to. \u201cMedical students are only better these days, he said. \u201cThey are more versed in the world we live in and determined to make a greater impact. We need to train them in ways to be extremely good at what they do, and then to impact society.\u201d<\/p>\n