Waltham – March 20th – Methuen
resident Kenneth G. Adams, M.D., F.A.C.C., a physician with Pentucket Medical
Associates, has been honored by his physician peers of the Essex North District
Medical Society as the district’s 2017 Community Clinician of the Year. He will receive the award at the district’s
annual meeting on March 30 at the DiBurro’s Function Facility in Haverhill.
The 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.
The Essex North District Medical Society, one of 20 district societies
that are part of the Massachusetts Medical Society, has some 400 physician
members who work or live in the communities of northern Essex County.
Board certified in internal
medicine and cardiovascular disease, Dr. Adams is a cardiologist with Pentucket
Medical Associates (PMA), a multi-specialty group practice and member of the
Partners Healthcare System that serves patients throughout the Merrimack
Valley. He joined the practice in 1984, was appointed its
medical director in 2007. He also serves
as a member of the Partners Healthcare Community Performance Oversight
Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of PMA.
Dr. Adams is a Fellow of the
American College of Cardiology, a Founding Member of the Society for Cardiovascular
Computed Tomography, and a longstanding member of the American Heart
Association.
He earned a B.A. from Rutgers
University, graduating summa cum laude and
as a Henry Rutgers Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa, an M.A. from State
University of New York at Stony Brook, and his M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical
College in New York.
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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
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