David Y. Ting, MD

Dr. David Y. Ting is an Assistant Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Ting graduated from Duke University with a B.S. degree in chemistry, and a double-major in political science, for which he received the Elizabeth G. Verville Political Science Award. He subsequently earned his M.D. degree at Duke, then matriculated to a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program (HCMP) in 1993. During residency, Dr. Ting was recognized with the 1995 Donald Medeiras Resident Teaching Award in Pediatrics.

Upon graduation from residency in 1997, Dr. Ting became Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and he joined the staff of MGH as a primary care physician at MGH Everett Family Care. He also became an Assistant Program Director for the HCMP, where he oversaw significant growth in the training program, and in 2002 became Program Director. In his current role as program director, he supervises the training of residents rotating through the pediatrics and internal medicine teaching services of the MGH, the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Boston.

As a 2005 Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education, Dr. Ting designed a randomized, case-control study of stress and coping in residents. Dr. Ting plans to expand this study to include residents in several categorical internal medicine and categorical pediatrics training programs at other Harvard affiliated hospitals.