Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., MACP is Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education

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 at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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, and Senior Consultant in Hepatology

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 at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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, Boston, Massachusetts.

Chopra has several publications and four books to his credit. His books have been translated into several languages including Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Czech.

Chopra is Editor-in-Chief

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 of the Hepatology Section of UpToDate

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, an outstanding and innovative clinical reference on CD-ROM

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 that is subscribed to by an estimated 300,000 physicians worldwide.

Chopra has received a number of teaching awards:

• The George W. Thorn Award presented by the Brigham and Women's Hospital
  Brigham and Women's Hospital
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   Housestaff, Harvard Medical School in 1985 for his outstanding contribution to clinical education
• In 1991 he received the highest accolade from the 1991 graduating class of Harvard Medical School, the Excellence in Teaching Award.
• In 1995 Chopra was the recipient of the Robert S. Stone Award, a prestigious award given to a faculty member who is an outstanding clinician and teacher and is chosen by colleagues, housestaff and students from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• In 2003 he was honored by being chosen as the recipient of the American Gastroenterological Association
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  ’s Distinguished Educator Award.
• In 2009 Chopra was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians.

Chopra has been invited to lecture in numerous countries.

He serves as the Course Director of several CME courses including seven annual Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care

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  (Pri-Med) conferences held in collaboration with UCLA

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, Johns Hopkins

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, Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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, University of Miami

University of Miami

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, Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 and Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons

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. In addition to directing these conferences, he delivers several lectures, moderates a number of sessions and has served as a Keynote speaker

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 on several occasions. Each of the Pri-Med conferences are attended by 4,000 – 8,000 clinicians.

Chopra has lectured on “Leadership for the 21st Century: The Tenets of Leadership” to a dozen or so audiences in the United States and in several countries abroad. This talk has received a wide acclaim. In this presentation, he discusses a wide range of examples of leaders who have changed the world. Included are Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jack Welsh and Eleanor Roosevelt

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