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Honored posthumously as district’s 2016 Community Clinician of the Year
Waltham -- April 4 -- Irina Bogorad, M.D. has been honored posthumously by her peers of the Middlesex Central District Medical Society as the district’s 2016 Community Clinician of the Year, an honor recognizing her contributions and professionalism as a physician.
Dr. Bogorad, who passed away last August, was remembered by her colleagues as “devoted to her patients, a physician who loved her job and career, her patients and colleagues, and always put them first and treated them with respect.”
Dr. Bogorad was board certified in internal medicine and practiced primary care, along with cardiology and gastroenterology, for nearly 25 years in the MetroWest area. She practiced at Paula Jo. Carbone, M.D., P.C. in Concord for nearly 10 years and at Emerson Medical at Sudbury. She served on the staffs of MetroWest Medical Center, Waltham Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Needham.
Dr. Bogorad earned her medical degree from the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute in Russia in 1978. She completed her internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and her residency at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham.
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 and who stands out as a leading caregiver. The Middlesex Central District is comprised of nearly 300 physicians who live and work in nine communities in central Middlesex County.
The Massachusetts Medical Society, with more than 24,000 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 NEJM Journal Watch alerts and publications covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts, conducting a variety of medical education programs for physicians and health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country.
