Michael B. Heisler, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Hospitalist
Associate Medical Director, Hospital Medicine

Dr. Heisler is Acting Associate Professor of Medicine in the Emory University Department of Medicine and Associate Medical Director of Emory Hospital Medicine.

From January 1999 to July 2005 Dr. Heisler held a number of appointments including Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Director of the Division of General Medicine, and Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs of the Department of Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. In addition to his academic appointment at Morehouse, Dr. Heisler also served as an attending physician, Medical Director of the Health Outcomes Research Center, and Chief of the Medical Service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Dr. Heisler graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1971 with a B.A. in Political Science. He completed his medical degree at George Washington University in 1979 and a residency in Internal Medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University in 1982. After two years in the U.S. Indian Health Service in New Mexico, Dr. Heisler accepted a position as Medical Director of Maua Methodist Hospital in rural northeast Kenya for 1984 and 1985. During 1985/86 Dr. Heisler completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at George Washington University . He received a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University in 1990.

From 1991 through 1998 Dr. Heisler held adjunct academic appointments at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health with his primary appointment at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a UN sponsored international health group affiliated with the Carter Center in Atlanta. From 1994 through 1998 Dr. Heisler was Director of Programs at the Task Force and played a major role in developing the World Bank funded global river blindness control program.

Dr. Heisler received the 1990 Sorin Award from the University of Notre Dame for outstanding contributions to the University, has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching, and currently serves at the Vice-chair of the Board of Andean Health and Development and on the Advisory Board of the Kroc Peace Institute at Notre Dame.

Dr. Heisler assumed his current post in September 2005. He and his wife Jean, also a physician, have two children.