Richard P. Gulla
781-434-7101
rgulla@mms.org
Waltham, Mass. -- May 9 -- Norwell resident and South Shore physician Ronald W. Dunlap, M.D., has been elected President of the Massachusetts Medical Society at the organization's annual meeting today held in Boston.
Dr. Dunlap, who was the Society’s President-Elect for the last year, will serve a one-year term as the top officer of the Society, the statewide membership organization representing nearly 24,000 physicians and medical students in the Commonwealth.
Board certified in internal medicine and cardiology and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Dunlap is a physician with South Shore Cardiology in Weymouth and 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, served as Vice President, and previously chaired 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.
Other presidential officers elected today were:
President-Elect: Richard S. Pieters Jr., M.D.
Vice President: Dennis M. Dimitri, M.D.
Secretary-Treasurer: Peter B. Kang, 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 nearly 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.
