Dr. Weinberger is Senior Vice President for Medical Education
and Publishing at the American College of Physicians (ACP).
Before assuming his current position at the ACP in March
2004, Dr. Weinberger served simultaneously as Executive
Director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education
and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, as Executive Vice Chair of the Department
of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and
as Professor of Medicine and Faculty Associate Dean for
Medical Education at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Weinberger is a graduate of Princeton University (summa
cum laude) and Harvard Medical School. He received his housestaff
training in Internal Medicine at the University of California
– San Francisco Medical Center, followed by clinical
and research fellowship training in Pulmonary Medicine at
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National
Institutes of Health. He was a member of the faculty of
Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
and Harvard Medical School from 1978-2004, and in addition
to the most recent positions he held, at various times he
also served as Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care
Division, Associate Chairman of Medicine for Education,
and Firm Chief on the Medical Service. He held numerous
educational leadership roles at Harvard Medical School,
and with his most recent responsibility as Executive Director
of the Shapiro Institute, he was actively involved in educational
innovation both locally and at a national level. He co-directed
three national working conferences on medical education
and educational reform, entitled Millennium Conferences
I, II, and III, which were co-sponsored by the Shapiro Institute
and the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Weinberger received multiple teaching awards at Harvard
Medical School; nine of the recent classes at Harvard Medical
School gave him the award for the outstanding Preclinical
Teacher at Harvard Medical School, and he also received
the S. Robert Stone Teaching Award. In 2001 he received
the Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from Alpha
Omega Alpha and the Association of American Medical Colleges.
He is the author of a popular textbook entitled Principles
of Pulmonary Medicine, which is now in its 4th edition and
has been translated into several foreign languages. He has
written numerous original and review articles as well as
multiple chapters for the leading textbooks of internal
medicine, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal
Medicine and Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. He was
the Editor of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine section
of the American College of Physician’s MKSAP X, served
as a member of the Editorial Board of The New England Journal
of Medicine from 1992-2000, and was (since its inception
and until taking his current position at ACP) the Editor-in-Chief
of UpToDate in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, a popular
computer-based clinical resource and educational program
sponsored by the American Thoracic Society.
Dr. Weinberger’s area of special clinical interest
is interstitial lung disease, especially sarcoidosis. He
served as the Principal Investigator for Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center’s participation in the National Institutes
of Health-sponsored multicenter study entitled “A
Case Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis (ACCESS).”
In his current national leadership position in medical education,
Dr. Weinberger directs the American College of Physicians’
Medical Education & Publishing Division. His responsibilities
include the programmatic and administrative leadership of
all educational activities, programs, and products of the
American College of Physicians, the national organization
for Internal Medicine and the largest specialty organization
for physicians in the United States.
Weinberger SE, Cockrill BA, Mandel J. Principles of Pulmonary Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier, 2008.
Weinberger SE. Sarcoidosis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2008:667-672.
Manaker S, Weinberger SE. Diagnostic procedures in respiratory disease. In: Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008:1593-1595.
Weinberger SE, Lipson DA. Cough and hemoptysis. In: Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008:225-228.
Tino, G, Weinberger SE. Bronchiectasis and lung abscess. In: Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008:1629-1632.
Weinberger SE, Rosen IM. Disturbances of respiratory function. In: Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008:1586-1592.
Lipson DA, Weinberger SE. Approach to the patient with disease of the respiratory system. In: Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008:1583-1585.
Goldberger ZD, Weinberger SE, Nicosia RF, Saint S, Young BA. Clinical problem-solving. Variations on a theme. N Engl J Med. 2008; 359:1502-1507.
Meyers FJ, Weinberger SE, Fitzgibbons JP, Glassroth J, Duffy FD, Clayton CP, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force. Redesigning residency training in internal medicine: the consensus report of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force. Acad Med. 2007; 82:1211-1219.
Qaseem A, Snow V, Shekelle P, Sherif K, Wilt TJ, Weinberger S, Owens DK. Diagnosis and management of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2007; 147:633-638.
Weinberger SE. Update in pulmonary medicine. Ann Intern Med. 2006; 144:358-363.
Weinberger SE, Smith LG, Collier VU. Position paper: Redesigning training for internal medicine. Ann Intern Med. 2006; 144:927-932.
Weinberger SE. Clinical Crossroads: A 47-year-old woman with sarcoidosis. JAMA. 2006; 296:2133-2140
