Victor Dzau

Victor J. Dzau, MD serves as Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of Duke University Health System. He is also the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Director of Molecular and Genomic Vascular Biology at Duke. Before assuming his position at Duke, Dzau was the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic (Medicine) at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Physician-in-Chief and Director of Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Prior to his work at Harvard, he served as Arthur Bloomfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. Dzau's academic interests are in cardiovascular translational research and global health education. Currently, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Duke University Health System, Executive Committee and Council of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  Dzau, the recipient of many awards and honors, earned his medical degree at McGill University in Montreal.