Chief, General Medicine Division
Massachusetts General Hospital
Newton, Massachusetts
Elected 2004 (Charter Trustee)
A.B. Dartmouth College
M.P.P., M.D. Harvard University
Albert Mulley is Chief of the General Medicine Division and Director of the Medical Practices Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School. During more than 30 years at MGH and Harvard he has developed innovative approaches to patient care, medical education, and clinical research. Dr. Mulley's research has focused on the use of decision theory to support clinicians and patients in their decision-making roles. This work has influenced the agendas of many public and private organizations. He has also served on multiple committees of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, of professional societies, and as a visiting professor and health policy consultant to governments and health care institutions in North America, Europe and Asia. For the past decade, he has returned each year to the same five mountain villages in Honduras to deliver primary medical care. Dr. Mulley is a founding director of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making which supports an international collaboration of clinical investigators committed to improving the quality of decisions made in the medical care of individuals and the health care for populations. He graduated from Dartmouth magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned M.D. and M.P.P. degrees at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government before doing his clinical training at the MGH. Dr. Mulley has been an overseer of Dartmouth Medical School since 1998. He is married to Margaret Mulley, a partner at Deloitte, and they have two children, Katherine, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2005, and Alexander, who graduated from the Tuck School of Business in 2008.
