Zinner Named CEO of Miami Cancer Institute

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MICHAEL ZINNER was named CEO and executive medical director of Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida.

Zinner served as clinical director at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, and surgeon-in-chief at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and founder of Harvard’s Center for Surgery and Public Health. Zinner is also co-founder and co-director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

From 2008 to 2010, Zinner was the chairman of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, and is now vice chair of the Board of Regents. Additionally, he is chairman of the organization’s Health Policy and Advocacy Committee.

A Miami native, Dr. Zinner received his M.D. degree from the University of Florida and did his surgical residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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