Medical and Academic Career
Dr. Chopra currently serves as Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Continuing Education at Harvard Medical School and as a Senior Consultant in Hepatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Chopra was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2009, an honor bestowed to only a select few individuals for being “citizen physicians, educational innovators, scientific thinkers and humanists who inspire those around him or her and sets the standards for quality in medicine.” He has received a number of other notable awards, including the American Gastroenterological Association’s Distinguished Educator Award. In 2012, he was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for “exemplifying outstanding qualities in both one’s personal and professional lives while continuing to preserve the richness of one’s particular heritage.”
Dr. Chopra’s book, Dr. Chopra Says: Medical Facts and Myths Everyone Should Know, co-authored with Dr. Alan Lotvin, was published in January 2011. It has received wide acclaim and has been translated into multiple languages.
Dr. Chopra, in serving as the Faculty Dean for Continuing Education, leads the most robust academic Continuing Medical Education enterprise in the world, reaching out to 80,000 clinicians in more than 160 countries each year. This includes seven annual Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care (CCIPC) conferences held in collaboration with UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Miami, Northwestern University and Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons. In addition to directing these conferences, he delivers several lectures, moderates a number of sessions and has served as a keynote speaker on several occasions. Each of the CCIPC conferences are attended by 4,000 – 8,000 clinicians. Dr. Chopra is also editor-in-chief of the Hepatology section of UpToDate, an innovative online resource subscribed to by more than 850,000 physicians worldwide for clinical decision-making at the point of care.
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