Ronald W. Dunlap, M.D., F.A.C.C., President
Ronald W. Dunlap, M.D., F.A.C.C., board certified in internal medicine and cardiology and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, is a physician with South Shore Cardiology in Weymouth. He has appointments at South Shore Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Long active with the state medical society, he is a member of the Board of Trustees and the House of Delegates and previously was chair of the Committee on Diversity in Medicine. He has been a member of the committees on Information Technology, Member Services, Public Health, Nominations, Strategic Planning, and Administration and Management and was president of the Norfolk South District Medical Society from 2006-2008. He was elected by the hospital medical staff to serve on the South Shore Hospital Health Providers Service Organization. He is also the South Shore Hospital’s representative to the American Medical Association’s Organized Medical Staff Section and an alternate representative to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Committee on Health Care Disparities.
A graduate of Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in biomedical electronics, he earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He has been an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1979 and serves on the alumni board of Tufts University Medical School and the board of the Coverys Insurance Co. He is a resident of Norwell.
Richard S. Pieters Jr., M.D., F.A.C.R., President-Elect
Richard S. Pieters Jr., M.D., F.A.C.R., is a radiation oncologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.
Long active with the state medical society, Dr. Pieters served three years as Speaker and three years as Vice Speaker of the MMS House of Delegates, the policy-making body of the organization. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees and House of Delegates.
A member of the society since 1983, he has chaired the Society’s District Leadership Council and its Committee on Membership and has been a member of the committees on Strategic Planning, Member Services, Legislation, Quality of Medical Practice, and Administration and Management. He is also a Delegate from Massachusetts to the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates.
Dr. Pieters is a past president of the Plymouth District Medical Society and continues to serve the district society as treasurer and member of the Executive Committee. In 2008, he was honored by his colleagues in the Plymouth District as its Community Clinician of the Year, an award that recognizes a district member for significant contributions to patients and the community.
Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester in October of 2004, Dr. Pieters was Director of Radiation Oncology at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. He was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine from 1987-1994. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology.
A graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Pieters earned a master's degree from the Boston University School of Education, an M.D. from the Brown University Program in Medicine, and completed residency and fellowship training at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He is dually board-certified in radiation oncology and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and currently is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. A native of Andover, Massachusetts, he lives in Duxbury.
Dennis M. Dimitri, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Vice President
Dennis M. Dimitri M.D., F.A.A.F.P., is a Clinical Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Medical School. In his role as vice chair, he has oversight responsibility for all clinical services delivered in the department while still maintaining his own clinical practice of Family Medicine. He joined the department in his current role in 2006, after almost 25 years in private practice in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dr. Dimitri has a long history of participation with the Massachusetts Medical Society. He has been a member of the House of Delegates since 1989 and a member of a number of committees with emphasis on issues of advocacy, legislation and regulation, and physician workforce. He has also served as an officer of the Worcester District Medical Society and chaired its legislative committee. In 2011, he was honored with the Worcester District Medical Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a Past President of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. He remains involved in the activities of the MassAFP, serving as a Massachusetts alternate delegate to the Congress of Delegates of the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 2013 he was honored by the MassAFP as their Family Physician of The Year.
He has also been appointed to serve at various times on the Massachusetts Medicaid Delivery Model Advisory Committee, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot Coordinating Council, and the Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Advisory Council
Active in his community, Dr. Dimitri serves as vice chair of the board of trustees of Clark University in Worcester and served for eight years as a founding trustee of the board of UMass Memorial Health Care. In 2011 he was inducted into the Worcester Boys and Girls Club Hall of Fame for his philanthropic efforts in support of the club.
Dr. Dimitri attended Clark University and received his M.D. at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. He completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is a native of Worcester and lives there now with his wife, Tamara Walker.
Peter B. Kang, M.D., F.A.A.P., Secretary-Treasurer
Dr. Kang is serving his first term as Secretary-Treasurer, following three terms as assistant secretary-treasurer. He is a pediatric neurologist and physician-scientist in the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital. His laboratory focuses on the genetics of muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular disorders. He serves as Director of the EMG Laboratory at the hospital. Also engaged in major teaching efforts, he is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Neurology Rotation of the Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics.
A member of the Medical Society since 2001, Dr. Kang has served the organization in a number of capacities. He has been a member of the Committees on Finance, Strategic Planning, and Member Services and has chaired the Committee on Young Physicians and the Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Student Debt. From 2008 to 2010, he was president of the Suffolk District Medical Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the MMS and Alliance Charitable Foundation.
Active in organized medicine on the national level as well, Dr. Kang is chair of the Executive Committee, Section on Neurology of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Ethics, Law and Humanities Committee of the American Academy of Neurology. Since 2009, he has been a Delegate to the American Medical Association’s Organized Medical Staff Section.
A cum laude graduate of Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy, he received his M.D. in 1996 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Kang has received a number of honors, including the History of Medicine Prize from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Human Values in Neurology Award from the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He resides in Brookline.
Alain Chaoui, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Board certified in family medicine, Dr. Chaoui is a solo primary care physician at Family Medicine North in Peabody, a practice he established in 2006. He is also Chairman of the Family Practice Department of North Shore Medical Center, Union and Salem Hospitals, a post he has held since 2003. In 2012, he was elected President-Elect of the Medical Staff of those hospitals.
A longtime active member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Dr. Chaoui is a member of its Board of Trustees and House of Delegates and is a past chairman of the Committee on Membership. He is a past president of the Essex South District Medical Society and a Massachusetts Delegate to the American Medical Association.
Besides his medical practice and activity in organized medicine, Dr. Chaoui is dedicated to medical education, instilling in future physicians and nurse practitioners a love of medicine and pride in the profession and teaching them how to be thorough and excellent health care providers. He holds four teaching positions: Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, Clinical Adjunct Professor at Boston College School of Nursing, and Clinical Professor in the School of Physician Assistant Studies at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. His passion for medical education is demonstrated by the fact that since 1996 he has had his medical students from the Boston area complete their clinical training in his office.
Also active in the community, Dr. Chaoui served as the physician for the Saugus Public Schools from 2000-2008 and continues to serve that community as the physician for the Saugus Department of Public Health, a position he began in 2000.
Among a number of honors and awards Dr. Chaoui has received are the Partners in Excellence Individual Award in 2011, Physician of Excellence Award from the Medical Staff of the North Shore Medical Center in 2009, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Excellence in Primary Care Award in 2008, the Teacher of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians in 2005, and the Preceptor of the Year Award from the Boston College School of Nursing in 2001.
Dr. Chaoui received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, in Egypt and completed his residency at Akron City Hospital and Saint Thomas Hospital of the Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. He resides in Boxford.
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., M.P.H.,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., M.P.H., is
an assistant professor of anesthesiology and biomedical informatics
at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, as well as an
assistant-in-anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital. He
divides his time among clinical practice, teaching, and research.
He also serves as director of the Center for Evidence-Based
Anesthesia and as director of the Perioperative Data Systems
Research Group.
Since receiving his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker
School of Medicine, Dr. Ehrenfeld has focused on understanding how
information technology can improve surgical safety. He has
co-authored nine textbooks and numerous peer-reviewed scientific
articles.
He is active with the American Medical Association, the American
Society of Anesthesiologists, the Massachusetts Society of
Anesthesiologists, and is a founding member of Doctors and Lawyers
for Healthcare Reform, a non-profit organization that brings
together physicians and attorneys to reform the health care
liability system. He is an Institutional Site Mentor for the Albert
Schweitzer Fellowship Program and a Lieutenant Commander in the
United States Navy Reserve.
Among a number of honors, Dr. Ehrenfeld has received the
Partners in Excellence Award from Partners Healthcare and the
Foundation Leadership Award from the American Medical Association.
He is a three-time winner of the Clinical Research Presentation
Award from the Chicago Medical Society and has also received a
Research Symposium Award from the Massachusetts Medical Society for
his work in health care policy.
David A. Rosman, M.D., M.B.A., Vice Speaker of
the House of Delegates
David A. Rosman, M.D., M.B.A. is medical
director of Mass General Imaging in Worcester, an assistant
radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate
director of business development for Mass General Imaging. He
is also an instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical
School.
A member of the Medical Society since 1998, Dr. Rosman, who is
board-certified in radiology, has served the organization in a
number of capacities. He is currently a member of its House of
Delegates and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees, Vice
Chair of the Medical Student Section, and a member of its Resident
and Fellow Section and the committees on Finance and Ethics and
Grievances.
Also active with other medical specialty organizations, Dr.
Rosman has served as an alternate delegate to the American Medical
Association from the American College of Radiology (ACR) and Chair
of the ACR's Radiology Integrated Care Network. He is also a member
of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Radiological
Society.
Dr. Rosman earned his B.A. cum laude in economics and philosophy
from Dartmouth College, his M.B.A. in health care, business and
public policy from The Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, and his M.D. from the University of Massachusetts
Medical School.
Corinne Broderick, Executive Vice President
Corinne Broderick is executive vice president of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), the nation's oldest continuously operating state medical society with a membership of 22,000 Massachusetts physicians and medical students. Founded in 1781, the Society owns and publishes the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal Watch family of professional newsletters.
As executive vice president, Ms. Broderick is directly responsible for the operation and management of the Society and its operating divisions, and provides oversight for its several subsidiaries. She has been associated with the MMS since 1984, serving as director of education and communications, vice president of operations, senior vice president, and acting executive vice president. She has served in her current role since 2002.
Ms. Broderick has spent her career in the health and safety field. She is a past chair of the board of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the international nonprofit association that produces fire safety codes and standards including the Life Safety Code and the National Electrical Code. She currently serves on other nonprofit boards including the Biomedical Science Careers Program, Inc., in Boston, and the Board of Directors of Physician Health Services in Waltham. Ms. Broderick is a member of the American Association of Medical Society Executives, the American Society of Association Executives, and the New England Society of Association Executives.
Ms. Broderick earned her bachelor of arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master of science in curriculum and instruction from the University of Southern California.
