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Waltham, Mass. -- April 22 -- Lynne M. Reid, M.D. has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2016 recipient of The Woman Physician Leadership Award, an honor recognizing outstanding leadership and contributions to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician.
In nominating her for the honor, her colleagues noted that Dr. Reid “will go down in history as a women pioneer whose courage and determination opened the door for women to be appointed to leadership positions and advance women leadership not only in the United States but around the world.”
A native of Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Reid received her medical degree from the University of Melbourne Medical School. Her distinguished career includes many “firsts.” In 1951, she founded and became the first director of the Department of Research in Morbid Anatomy at the Brompton Hospital in London; in 1968, she was named the first female Professor of Experimental Pathology at London University; and in 1973 was appointed the first Dean of the Cardiothoracic Institute at London University.
From 1975-1989, Dr. Reid served as the S. Burt Wolbach Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Pathologist-in-Chief at Boston Children’s Hospital. In addition to her academic and clinical appointments, Dr. Reid has served as Chairman of Harvard Medical School’s Joint Committee on the Status of Women and Faculty Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust in England.
Dr. Reid has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and an Honorary Fellow of the Canadian Thoracic Society. Among her many honors and awards are the Henry D. Chadwick Medal, the highest honor awarded by the Massachusetts Pulmonary Section of the American Lung Association, for contributions to the study and treatment of tuberculosis and other thoracic diseases, and the Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal, given by the American Thoracic Society to recognize lifelong major contributions to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lung disease through leadership in research, education or clinical care.
The Massachusetts Medical Society, with some 25,000 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 Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education providing accredited and certified activities across the globe for physicians and other health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. For more information please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.
