Waltham – April 4th – Hull
resident Ralph J. Froio, M.D. has been honored by his peers of the Norfolk
South District Medical Society as the district’s 2017 Community Clinician of
the Year, an award recognizing his contributions as a physician. He will receive the award at the district’s
annual meeting, to be held April 5 at the Neighborhood Club of Quincy.
Dr. Froio is currently a
physician at the South Shore Hospital Center for Wound Healing in
Weymouth. Prior to joining the center in
2009, he was a surgeon in private practice with South Shore Surgical Associates
in South Weymouth.
He has been a member of the
active staff of South Shore Hospital since 1966 and was Chairman of the
Department of Surgery at the hospital from 1975-1985. He served as president of the hospital’s
medical staff and chaired the hospital’s Credentials Committee and Operating
Room Committee, each for nearly 10 years.
He was also a member of the South Shore Hospital Foundation fund-raising
committee for 20 years.
His tenure as a surgeon at South
Shore Hospital was marked by many innovations. He developed the first surgical
intensive care unit, introduced cardiac monitors into the operating room and
arteriography into the x-ray department, developed an area for pre-surgical
preparation of patients in conjunction with the department of anesthesiology,
introduced the need hemodialysis and was instrumental in giving lectures on
current surgical practice.
Board certified in general
surgery, Dr. Froio is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. From
1966-1981, he was an instructor in surgery at Tufts University School of
Medicine.
Dr. Froio earned his bachelor’s
degree from Bates College where he was the recipient of Francis Ouimet
Scholarship and his medical degree from Tufts
University School of Medicine.
The Community Clinician of the
Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to
recognize a physician from each of the Society’s 20 district medical societies
who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the
community. The Norfolk South District is
comprised of nearly 500 physicians who live and work in South Shore
communities.
The
Massachusetts Medical Society, with some 25,000 physicians and student members,
is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of
Massachusetts. The Society, under the auspices of NEJM Group, 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 providing accredited and
certified activities across the globe for physicians and other 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.
