Rate My Professor David McManus

David D. McManus, MD’02, ScM’12, EMBA, is the Richard M. Haidack Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, overseeing 16 divisions, more than 370 faculty members, and over $70 million in annual research funding. He also serves as founding director of the Program in Digital Medicine and director of the Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Program. A Brown University alumnus with a BS in Biological Sciences, he earned his MD and MS in Clinical Investigation from UMass Chan Medical School and an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management in 2025. Dr. McManus completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by cardiovascular medicine and clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at UMass Chan. Previously, he was vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Medicine and director of Anticoagulation Services, where he implemented best practice advisories to improve anticoagulation guidelines. As principal investigator for the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) grant, he secured over $140 million to develop innovative testing strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership as director of the Atrial Fibrillation Program, UMass Memorial Medical Center earned the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines Gold Award. Recently appointed chancellor-elect of UMass Chan Medical School starting July 2026, he is the first alumnus to hold the position.