Massachusetts Medical Society elects officers for 2017-2018
Waltham/Boston – April 27th – Henry L. Dorkin, M.D. of Newton was elected 2017-2018 President of
the Massachusetts Medical Society at the organization’s annual meeting on April
27 and will lead the statewide professional organization of 25,000 physicians
and medical students as its top officer for the next year.
Dr. Dorkin is Director of the Pulmonary Clinical
Research Program, Co-Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Center, and Co-Director
of the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic Development Center, all at Boston Children’s
Hospital. A former Professor of
Pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine, he is also Associate
Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, a position he has held since
2002.
A member of the medical society since 1982, Dr.
Dorkin served as President-Elect from 2016-2017 and Vice President from
2015-2016. He has also chaired the Task
Force on Electronic Health Record Interoperability and Usability and served as a
member of the Task Force on Opioid Therapy and Physician Communication, the
Organized Medical Staff Section, and the Committees on Preparedness,
Legislation, and Membership Services.
Medical Society members also elected the following
physicians to serve as officers for next year:
Alain A.
Chaoui, M.D.
of Boxford, a board-certified family medicine physician at Family Medicine
North in Peabody, was elected President-Elect. A longtime member of the
Society, Dr. Chaoui served as Vice President for the last year and as
Secretary-Treasurer for the two years prior to that. He is a member of the
Board of Trustees and House of Delegates and past chairman of the Committee on
Membership. He is also the current Chair of the Massachusetts Delegation to the
American Medical Association.
Maryanne C. Bombaugh, M.D. of Falmouth, a
board-certified gynecologist at the Community Health Center of Cape Cod, has
been elected Vice President. A member of
the medical society since 1993, Dr. Bombaugh serves on the organization’s Board
of Trustees and is a member of its governing body House of Delegates. A member of the Committee on Legislation for
10 years, she served as its chair from 2012-2016. She is also a member of the
Massachusetts Delegation to the American Medical Association and the current
chair of the Massachusetts Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Corey E.
Collins, D.O.
of Reading, a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist at Beverly Anesthesia
Associates and founder of Collins Medical Consulting, was elected
Secretary-Treasurer; Joseph Bergeron,
M.D. of Acton, a pathologist with Atrius Health/Harvard Vanguard, was
elected Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; David A. Rosman, M.D., M.B.A., of Jamaica Plain, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital
and associate director of business development for Mass General Imaging, was re-elected
Speaker of the House of Delegates, the Society’s Governing Body; and Francis P. MacMillan Jr., M.D., of North Andover, owner and
president of Merrimack Valley Gastroenterology in Haverhill, was re-elected
Vice Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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.
