About Michael Thiim, MD
Michael Thiim received his BA at Ithaca College and MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine, a fellowship in Gastroenterology at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City and a second fellowship in Hepatology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, also in New York City.
Dr. Thiim was a member of the Senior Staff at Lahey Clinic where he served as the Medical Director of the Liver Center and as the Gastroenterology Fellowship Co-Director before joining the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the MGH Gastrointestinal Unit in 1999. He has more than 25 years experience treating patients with liver conditions including cirrhosis, complications of liver failure, autoimmune liver diseases and viral liver diseases. He is an active member of the Mass General liver transplant program. Part of his practice is also devoted to general gastroenterology and endoscopy.
Dr. Thiim is actively engaged in medical education and he works with the MGH Internal Medicine Residency program as the Gastroenterology and Hepatology subspecialty education coordinator. Within the MGH Gastroenterology unit he teaches GI and Transplant Liver fellows in both the Gastroenterology and in the Liver Transplant Fellowship programs.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Diagnostic Endoscopy
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Liver failure
- Liver transplant
- Portal hypertension
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Surgery: General and Gastrointestinal Surgery
15 Parkman Street
Wang Ambulatory Care Center
Suite 460
Boston, MA 02114
Mass General Gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center (Danvers)
102-104 Endicott St.
Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: 978-882-6100
Medical Education
- MD, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University***
- Residency, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center
- Fellowship, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center
- Fellowship, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Dr Thiim is most excellent. With a nursing background, I have a decent grasp of my conditions and the attendant implications. Dr Thiim was very thorough and addressed all my concerns with much care and kindness. He is much appreciated for his thoroughness and thoughtfulness.
I am thankful for Dr Thiim. He is full of knowledge and easy to talk with.
Dr. Thiim was great. Very knowledgeable, and attentive. He makes you feel like you are the most important person when you see him.
He is a good doctor who goes above and beyond his regular responsibilities.
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Very attentive, provided great information and recommendations - really listened to me and responded appropriately.
He is a caring and knowledgeable provider
I have just always had a wonderful experience with Dr. Thiim and he is very knowledgeable about what's going on with me so I would definitely give him a 10. Thank you. Bye.
Extremely happy with the information that he provided to us. He was very informative, listened to us, answered all our questions, and made sure that we were informed about everything.
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