Waltham, Mass. – March 6th – Robert
Eisendrath, M.D. has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the
2017 recipient of its Senior Volunteer Physician of the Year Award, an honor recognizing
a senior member of the society who has shown a dedicated commitment to
volunteerism and to sharing medical experience and expertise. He will receive the award at the Society’s
Board of Trustees Meeting in June.
Dr. Eisendrath, a psychiatrist, is being
honored for a decade of volunteering at the MetroWest Free Medical Program,
where he provided compassion and empathy and demonstrated caring, acceptance
and acknowledgement of the mental health challenges facing patients. He worked closely with a team of social
workers, providing behavioral therapy as well as pharmacotherapy.
He began volunteering in 2006, just two
years after the program began to offer free health services to the uninsured
and underinsured. He dedicated several
hours two to three times a month, ensuring that patients have access to
psychiatric evaluation, necessary medications, and mental health care.
Dr. Eisendrath received his bachelor’s
degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from the Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine (formerly the Northwestern University School
of Medicine). He has held academic
positions at Harvard Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine, and
the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and has served as the Director of the Adult
Clinic at the South Shore Mental Health Center.
A longtime resident of Belmont, Dr.
Eisendrath served as a member of that town’s Board of Health for more than 15
years. Now a resident of Lexington and retired from the practice of medicine, he
remains a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts
Psychiatric Society.
The Massachusetts Medical
Society, with more than 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 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.
