About Daniel K. Podolsky, MD
Biography
Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky became President of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on September 1, 2008. His agenda for the Medical Center includes keeping UT Southwestern at the frontiers of science by enhancing its faculty and activities in basic, translational, and clinical research; promoting clinical transformation through a commitment to excellence and innovation in patient care; ensuring that UT Southwestern educates and trains future physicians, scientists, and allied health care professionals in programs that optimally prepare them for the changing landscape in scientific research and health care delivery; and launching new initiatives in global health, diversity, and health services research and policy.
Dr. Podolsky had previously been the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Chief of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Chief Academic Officer of Partners HealthCare System. In his position at Partners, he oversaw the ($1 billion) research enterprise, graduate medical education programs, technology transfer activities, and the senior faculty appointment process of Partners’ founding academic medical centers, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Podolsky received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, summa cum laude, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in 1981; he was appointed Chief of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1989; and he was named the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1998. Under his leadership from 1989 to 2008, the Massachusetts General Hospital Gastroenterology Unit became one of the leading programs in the country, highly regarded for its dynamic research and training activities, in addition to its comprehensive program of clinical care in gastroenterology. While remaining Chief of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, he also served from 2005 to 2008 as the Chief Academic Officer of Partners HealthCare System.
Dr. Podolsky is the author of more than 300 original research and review articles. He is the past editor-in-chief of the journal, Gastroenterology, the leading journal in the field, and he is a past president of the American Gastroenterological Association. He is a recipient of the Julius Friedenwald Medal, the highest honor bestowed on a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, and he is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.