Contact: Richard P. Gulla
781-434-7101
rgulla@mms.org
Waltham – March 11 – Fitchburg physician John R. Bogdasarian, M.D., FACS, has been honored by his physician peers of the Worcester North District Medical Society as its 2016 Community Clinician of the Year. The award will be presented at the district society’s annual meeting on
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at the Chocksett Inn in Sterling.
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.
Dr. Bogdasarian is being recognized for his clinical diagnostic and therapeutic skills in patient care, his work with the district and state medical societies, his contributions to the Fitchburg community, and his medical missions to Caribbean nations.
Board certified in otolaryngology and head-and-neck surgery, Dr. Bogdasarian is a physician with Central Massachusetts Otolaryngology in Fitchburg and is a member of the active staff of HealthAlliance Hospital. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at
Boston University School of Medicine and a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Active in organized medicine, he is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s House of Delegates, Committee on Legislation, and Board of Trustees. He is also president of the Worcester North District Medical Society, a post he has held for the last ten years.
In local community service, Dr. Bogdasarian is a member of the Fitchburg Board of Health and is medical director of the Montachusett Public Health Network, a coalition serving 11 communities in the areas of disease prevention and management, emergency preparedness, and health programs.
He has also been part of more than a dozen medical missions to Haiti and the Dominican Republic since 2001, bringing medical services to citizens in those nations.
Dr. Bogdasarian is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College. He earned his medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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