Michael Job Landzberg
Senior Staff, BACH Group, BCH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Divisions of Cardiology and Palliative Care
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA
Dr. Michael Landzberg was founding, and is currently immediate-past, director of the Boston Adult Congenital Heart (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Service of the Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Landzberg is a native New Yorker, where he was raised in an atmosphere of family, education, social awareness, and leadership. Mike has been an instrumental force in the promotion of certification and standards of care for a) clinicians training in the care of ACHD (via creation of a the ACHD ACGME fellowship pathway and establishment and promulgation of care guidelines for ACHD) and b) comprehensive clinical programs providing care for ACHD (assisting in creation and implementation of care site accreditation), is past-President of the International Society for ACHD and past-Chair, MAB of the patient advocacy ACHA. In 2018-2019, Dr Landzberg returned to fellowship, training in Palliative Care, so as to lead efforts to focus patient-centered and palliative care principles and practice across the life-span for adults with congenital heart disease. He attends on the general and palliative care (PATCH) teams for BACH, and in the catheterization laboratory and on the Advanced Heart Disease Palliative Care (“Heart Pal”) services. Mike remains an awarded teacher, mentor and clinician-scientist, and a recognized compassionate care provider. Areas of particular clinical and research experience include novel catheter-based diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, multi-center collaborative trials spanning congenital heart disease and pulmonary vascular diseases, quality outcomes of patient- and care provider-education, and application of palliative care principles within cardiovascular medicine. Most precious awards are 6 children (3 + 3 “in-laws”), 6 grandchildren, and a soul-mate/best friend (Abby) of 41 years of marriage. Most precious accomplishments are those that he has witnessed from the 45 trainees (particularly Dr Gabriele Egidy Assenza) that he mentored during his directorship of the BACH program.