Alex Glaser, MD is the Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at Pennsylvania Hospital. Graduating from Middlebury College with a degree in Mathematics, he started his career teaching middle school math, science, and engineering in Washington, DC. Ultimately, he enrolled at Duke University for medical school, and completed his residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with an extra year as a chief resident. Dr. Glaser joined the faculty at Pennsylvania Hospital in 2018 as the assistant medical director of the J. Edwin Wood Clinic, the primary care site for the residency program, and transitioned to the program director role in 2020. Dr. Glaser has distinguished himself as a medical educator locally and nationally, having sat on national committees studying transitions in education, and leading workshops on curricular development for residency education. Clinically, Dr. Glaser continues to see patients with the residents in the Wood Clinic, attends on the resident Hospitalist service, and supervises inpatient consults.