Marc Shalaby, MD is the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his administrative and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Shalaby works clinically as a general internist – serving as a primary care physician and also regularly attending on the general medicine inpatient teaching services.
Dr. Shalaby attended college and medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and completed his internal medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shalaby then took a faculty position at the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania where he ultimately served as the program director of the internal medicine residency. Dr. Shalaby returned to Penn in 2012 to serve as the residency program director of the Internal Medicine-Primary Care Program, a position he held for nine years prior to coming to Pennsylvania Hospital to serve as the Chair of Medicine. Dr. Shalaby is a nationally recognized pioneer in internal medicine residency redesign, having developed the original X+Y program model, and has published and presented widely in this area.