Board of Trustees

Brian J. Zink, MD

Immediate Past President

University of Michigan

Brian J. Zink, MD is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is also co-Director of the medical student Leadership Development Program. Dr. Zink’s primary areas of focus are faculty and leadership development, mentoring and coaching, medical humanities, and the history of emergency medicine. Dr. Zink wrote the first comprehensive history of US emergency medicine – Anyone, Anything, Anytime (2006) and the 2nd edition of this work (2018). After serving as the Associate Dean for Student Programs at Michigan, he was selected as the inaugural Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital (2006-2017). Dr. Zink has served as President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2000-01) and the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (2012-13). He founded and is Co-Director of the SAEM/AACEM Chair Development Program. Dr. Zink has received the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award and John Marx Leadership Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the Outstanding Contribution in Education Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Distinguished Service Award from AACEM. He practiced emergency medicine in academic hospital emergency departments for 36 years. In 2024 he formed Brian J. Zink Coaching and Consulting, LLC, and is now focused on growing and developing the next generation of leaders in academic medicine.