Barnstable District Medical Society

WALTHAM – Dr. C. Jeffrey Siegert a general surgeon from Falmouth, has been honored by the Barnstable District Medical Society as their 2025 Community Clinician of the Year awardee.

Seigert is recognized for his ongoing commitment to caring for patients in our community and he was instrumental in bringing the first Trauma Center to the Cape. He is the current Medical Director of the Trauma Center.

Patients who sustain critical injuries on Cape Cod can now be treated at Cape Cod Hospital's new Hyannis trauma center. After receiving verification from the American College of Surgeons, the hospital received its official Level III trauma center designation from the Massachusetts Department of Health on Jan. 10, 2025.

Dr. Siegert received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA and completed an internship and his General Surgery residency at Boston University/Boston Medical Center.

He served in the United States Navy as a Staff Surgeon at the Naval Hospital in Okinawa and then the Naval Hospital in Oak Harbor Washington. He returned to Boston for a Thoracic Surgery fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, while also moonlighting at the VA Boston Healthcare System in the Cardiothoracic Surgery department. Dr. Siegert also completed a second fellowship in Trauma Surgery/Critical Care at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Siegert lives on Cape cod with his wife Dr. Megan Titas who is a practicing cardiologist in Falmouth.

Dr. Amy Wiegandt honored by the Barnstable District Medical Society for the 2024 Community Clinician of the Year Award

Pictured left-to-right: Amy Weigandt, MD (2024 Barnstable District Medical Society Community Clinician of the Year), Anna A. Manatis, MD (Barnstable District President), and Marcia Franklin, MD (Barnstable District Vice President)

WALTHAM – Dr. Amy Gleason Wiegandt, a board-certified internist practicing in Wareham, has been honored by the Barnstable District Medical Society as their 2024 Community Clinician of the Year awardee.

Dr. Wiegandt earned her medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine and after completing her residence at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston.

Wiegandt began working in Wareham in 1988 and continues to do so, providing continuous care to patients in her community.

Dr. Wiegandt has been chair of the Department of Medicine at the Southcoast Hospital Group at Tobey Hospital, president of the medical staff of Southcoast Hospital Group at Tobey Hospital and an assistant clinical professor at Tufts Medical School.

She also Serves as chair of the Board of Health in Wareham, a position she has held since 2011. In continuation of the work of her parents, Doctors Betty and Sherm Gleason who were also longtime dedicated physicians in the community, Dr. Wiegandt has given her heart to providing for the patients in her community.

During the pandemic, Dr. Wiegandt figured out that she could use testing supplies for gyn and other viral cultures to test for Covid and her office became a testing center. She helped to coordinate the health care response for the Board of Health with the Department of Public Health and her small office became an important testing location when testing was not readily available.