Dr. Michael Zinner

CEO and Executive Medical Director, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health

Dr. Michael J. Zinner, M.D., a renowned cancer surgeon and researcher, is the Founding CEO and Executive Medical Director of the Miami Cancer Institute, a new $430M state-of-the-art Baptist Health South Florida hospital. Dr. Zinner previously was at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston, where he served as clinical director and surgeon-in-chief at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also co-founder of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. During his time in Boston, Dr. Zinner served as the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and founded Harvard’s Center for Surgery and Public Health. The author of more than 230 academic papers, he serves on the editorial boards of the Annals of Surgery, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Zinner was chairman of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons and is now a vice chairman of the College’s Board of Regents. Additionally, he chairs the College’s Health Policy and Advocacy Committee. Dr. Zinner received his medical degree from the University of Florida and completed his surgical residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md.

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