David L. Battinelli, MD is Dean and Betsey Cushing Whitney Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and is Physician-in-Chief of the Northwell Health System. A founding member of the Zucker School of Medicine, he previously served as vice dean and earlier as the dean for medical education and chaired the committee charged with developing the new medical school’s curriculum. Dr. Battinelli joined Northwell in 2007, as the health system’s chief academic officer and senior vice president of academic affairs and then served as the health system’s chief medical officer. He also served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Dr. Battinelli earned his degree from Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences along with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Scranton. A board-certified internist, Dr. Battinelli came to Northwell Health from Boston Medical Center (BMC), where he served as vice chair for education, program director for the internal medicine residency program, and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. He was also an active staff physician at BMC and the Boston Veterans Administration. Dr. Battinelli is a past president of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. He has worked closely with and served on numerous committees for a variety of national medical organizations including the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians and the Accreditation Committee on Graduate Medical Education. He has lectured extensively on clinical education, faculty development of teaching skills and internal medicine, and is a noted speaker and author on these subjects.