Contact: Richard P. Gulla
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Waltham, Mass. – May 9, 2013 – Brookline resident Peter B. Kang, M.D. has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional membership organization for nearly 24,000 physicians and medical students in the Commonwealth. Elected at the organization’s annual meeting May 9 in Boston, he will serve his third consecutive one-year term in that leadership post for the Society.
Dr. Kang is a pediatric neurologist and physician-scientist in the Department of Neurology and Program in Genomics at Children’s Hospital Boston. 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 Assistant 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 a member of the Executive Committee, Section on Neurology of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and 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.
Other presidential officers elected today were:
President: Ronald W. Dunlap, M.D.
President-Elect: Richard S. Pieters Jr., M.D.
Vice President: Dennis M. Dimitri, M.D.
Assistant Secretary Treasurer: Alain A. Chaoui, M.D.
Speaker: Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D.
Vice Speaker: David A. Rosman, M.D., M.B.A.
The Massachusetts Medical Society, with more than 24,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts, conducting a variety of medical education programs for physicians and health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. For more information please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.
