Asher A. Tulsky, MD, is a board certified internist. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He directs communication skills training at the Boston Medical Center Solomont Simulation Center. He has expertise in health and wellness coaching and is active in the professional development of early and mid-career faculty.
Previously, he was Associate Program Director at the University of Pittsburgh Internal Medicine Residency program, directed their community-based residency program, established and directed the International Scholars Program for gifted and accomplished international medical graduates pursuing academic medicine careers and was the principal consultant in a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Teine Keijinkai Hospital in Sapporo, Japan, in establishing a U.S.-modeled internal medicine residency program.
Dr. Tulsky is former chair of the ABIM Council and of the ABIM Internal Medicine Specialty Board and served for eight years on the ABIM Internal Medicine Board Exam Committee. He is also an active member of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Tulsky earned his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School in Illinois, completed internal medicine residency training at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, also in Chicago, and fellowship in general internal medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.
