MMS News Releases

Dr. Ehrenfeld will be serving his second consecutive term as Speaker of the House after serving three consecutive terms as Vice Speaker. He is also a member of the Medical Society’s Board of Trustees.

Duxbury resident Richard S. Pieters Jr., M.D., F.A.C.R. has been elected President-Elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society at the organization’s annual meeting, held May 9-11 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston.

Dr. Rosman 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. 

Declaring that “home safety is not an accident,” the Massachusetts Medical Society Alliance and The Safety Institute (TSI) have collaborated in developing a child safety brochure for parents and caregivers of children newborn through age 5 aimed at improving safety in the home and reducing...

The Massachusetts Medical Society, which steadfastly advocates that clinical research needs to be conducted to show the safety and effectiveness of marijuana as medicine, believes the Department of Public Health has done a thoughtful and responsible job overall in developing regulations to...

Cambridge resident Deanna P. Ricker, M.D. has been recognized by her physician peers as the 2013 Community Clinician of the Year for the Middlesex District Medical Society.

Dracut resident and physician M. Denise Mills, M.D. has been honored by her physician peers of the Middlesex North District Medical Society as the district’s 2013 Community Clinician of the Year. The award will be presented at the district’s annual meeting April 24 at Salvatore’s Function...

The winners of this year’s awards are Gaurav Singal, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, for his project, QPIDMed: Automated Chart Biopsy of the EMR using Natural Language Processing, and Ms. Sun Mi Yoo, a Harvard Medical School student, for Clinical Exchange Community.

The Massachusetts Medical Society this year has doubled the number of MMS Scholar Awards it presents annually, with sixteen Massachusetts medical school students being named to receive the honor for 2013.

Ronald A. Arky, M.D. has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, given each year to a member of the Society who has made a lasting contribution to the practice of medicine over a lifetime and who has made significant contributions to the...

Amherst resident Daniel E. Clapp, M.D. has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with its 2013 Senior Volunteer Physician Award, an honor recognizing a senior member of the society who has shown a dedicated commitment to volunteerism and to sharing experience and medical...

Melrose resident Alfred DeMaria Jr., M.D., Medical Director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2013 recipient of its Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service. The award,...