Brian Zink, MD

Brian J. Zink, MD is Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. His career in academic medicine spans over three and half decades in variety of leadership and service roles. He started his career as a researcher in alcohol effects in trauma. He wrote the first comprehensive history of US emergency medicine – Anyone, Anything, Anytime – (2nd edition, 2018). He served as Associate Dean for Student Programs at the University of Michigan Medical School, and then became the inaugural Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University (2006-2018). He returned to Michigan Medicine in 2018 to serve as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Faculty Development and was the interim Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in 2020-21.

Dr. Zink is Past-President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM). He founded and has served as Co-Director of the AACEM Chair Development Program since 2014. Dr. Zink completed the University of Michigan Executive Coach Training program. He has coached deans, department chairs, and other healthcare professionals and administrators. He provides consultation services to medical schools and academic departments across the US. He formed a coaching and consulting business in 2024.