Charles River District Medical Society Officers 2018-2019
President: Laura L. McCann, M.D.
Vice President: Leonard M. Finn, M.D.
Secretary: David Kieff, M.D.
Treasurer: Amanda Freeman, M.D.
Contact Information
Email:
charlesriver@massmed.org
Mailing Address: 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451-1414
Telephone Numbers: 781-434-7211, 800-944-5562
District Event/Activity
Contact: Linda Howard, Manager
lhoward@mms.org
CRDMS Scholarship Program Criteria
The Charles River District Medical Society Program is available to any medical school student enrolled at an approved US institution who is a legal resident of one of the five towns comprising the district: Needham, Newton, Waltham, Wellesley, and Weston. Applications must be received before December 31st of the
sophomore or junior year. If the scholarship is awarded in the sophomore year it may be renewable for the junior year upon reapplication and at the discretion of the Committee on Medical Education. The scholarship is awarded at the Charles River District
Annual Meeting in April.
Requirements:
- A Curriculum vitae which must include: legal address, high school and date of graduation; medical school and expected date of graduation.
- A letter which includes a statement of personal goal.
- A copy of the Graduate and Professional School Financial Aid Service Form or a financial aid form of equivalent informational value (not the summary page). Financial information is expected to be comprehensive (this should include parents' resources).
- A letter from the financial aid officer of the medical school with detailed verification of financial need.
- A statement of academic standing from the medical school.
- A letter of recommendation from a district society member or a faculty member.
ONLY APPLICATIONS WHICH MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS ARE
CONSIDERED
Mail completed applications to:
Massachusetts Medical Society
Northeast Regional Office
860 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451-1411
Charles River District News
Michael Lew, MD was honored as the 2019
Charles River District Community Clinician of the Year at the district
annual meeting held on Saturday, April 6, 2019 @ the Wellesley Country
Club. Pictured
Left to right are: Carl Brownsberger, MD, Michael Lew, MD and Laura
McCann, MD, President, Charles River District.
2018 Scholarship Awardees and the Charles River District Scholarship Committee
Front row- left to
right: Alanna Hickey (UMASS), Rebecca Fiske-accepting for Eric Robbins
(Tufts), Amanda Freeman, MD, Heidi Fisher, MD, Back row- left to right:
Matthew Levine, (NYIT College of Osteopathic
Medicine), Sally Sveda, MD, and David Golden, MD
Laura
McCann, MD, President Charles River District Medical Society presented
the Waltham Boys and Girls Club with a check for $3000 on May 24,
2018. Pictured left
to right are Laura McCann, MD, President Charles River District Medical
Society and Talina Goldsbury, Resource and Development Manager, Waltham
Boys and Girls Club.
