MARK LINZER, MD

Mark Linzer, MD, is a physician, teacher, and researcher with 20 years of scholarship, leadership, and research in burnout prevention in practicing clinicians, residents, staff, and students, and providing support to organizations eager to reduce burnout and improve wellness.

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Dr. Linzer has had faculty positions at Albert Einstein, Duke, Tufts, and the University of Wisconsin prior to coming to Hennepin Healthcare in 2009. He was Division Director of General Internal Medicine until 2017 when he transitioned into a lead role in the Hennepin Department of Medicine; in 2022 he was named as Director of Education, Mentorship and Scholarship for the Department of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Institute for Professional Worklife, performing studies and projects around the world to reduce burnout among healthcare workers.​​

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Dr. Linzer’s extensive body of work focuses primarily on understanding how the quality of the work environment affects medical providers and patients. A large portion of his research has been devoted to understanding the mechanisms of physician burnout and the means to predict and prevent it.

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Dr. Linzer received his medical degree from John Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine in the Social Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y