Hampshire District Medical Society Officers 2021-2022
President: Jaya Agrawal, MD
President-Elect: Rebecca Starr, MD
Vice President: Ilana Schmitt, MD
Secretary: Peter Kenny, MD
Treasurer: Roger Allcroft, MD
Contact Information
E-mail:
wcro@mms.org
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1092
Wilbraham, MA 01095-7092
Phone: (800) 522-3112 or (413) 596-9231
Fax: (781) 464-4806
District Event/Activity Contact: MMS West Central Region, (800) 522-3112
Hampshire District News
Dr. Michelle Helms honored by Hampshire District Medical Society as 2022 Community Clinician of the Year
Dr. Michelle Helms has been selected as the Hampshire District Medical Society’s 2022 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing her professionalism and contributions as a physician.
Helms, a New Jersey native, is a board-certified general surgeon who joined Cooley Dickinson General Surgical Care in 2016.
She has been a member of the board of the Cooley Dickinson Physician Hospital Organization for four years. She is in her second year as vice president of the Cooley Medical Staff. She was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Cooley Dickinson Healthcare in 2020 and was asked to sit on the CEO search committee this past summer and is currently on the strategic planning committee.
Helms is a graduate of Lehigh University and Rutgers University Medical School. She completed a general surgery internship at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a general surgery residency at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey.
Helms practiced in a rural community in Southern Virginia prior to relocating to Western Mass.
