Mark S. Soberman, MD, MBA, FACS, is Senior Safety Officer at Ethicon, Inc.
Previously, Dr. Soberman served as medical director, Oncology Service Line and chief physician executive, Monocacy Health Partners, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Frederick Integrated Healthcare Network at Frederick Regional Health System in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Soberman is a past President of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (2017-2018). He is a reviewer for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, General Thoracic Surgical Club, American Association for Physician Leadership, American College of Healthcare Executives, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Previously, he served as vice-chair of the Department of Surgery; director, Section of Thoracic Oncology; and director, Section of Thoracic Surgery, at the Washington Hospital Center. He has also held the positions of director, Division of Thoracic Surgery at Georgetown University Hospital and director, Section of Thoracic Surgery at Sibley Memorial Hospital. His academic appointments include Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Soberman earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis with Eliot Honors, and graduated from the Emory University School of Medicine. After completing a residency in General Surgery at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals, he went on to complete his residency Cardiothoracic Surgery at George Washington University and an advanced fellowship in General Thoracic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Soberman has been the recipient of two Alley-Sheridan Fellowships from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education, completing executive courses in Health Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2009, he completed an MBA at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, receiving a faculty award for academic excellence. In 2014, he attended Professor Michael Porter’s Intensive Value-Based Health Care Delivery Symposium at Harvard Business School.
Dr. Soberman has lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally on topics relating to thoracic oncology and more recently, value-based health care delivery. His professional interests include the study value-based healthcare, innovative care delivery models and innovative payment models, value in oncology, and multidisciplinary cancer care models.