Waltham -- April 7th
– Dr. George Ellsworth, M.D. has been honored by his physician peers of the
Middlesex West District Medical Society as its 2017 Community Clinician of the
Year, an award recognizing his professionalism and contributions as a
physician.
Since 1989, Dr.
Ellsworth, a psychiatrist, has been in private practice in Framingham
specializing in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
He is Director of
Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham,
where he chairs both the Graduate Medical Education Committee and the
Continuing Medical Education Committee. He is also a consulting psychiatrist
for Wellesley College.
A cum laude graduate of Kansas State
University, Dr. Ellsworth earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He
completed his internship at the University of Vermont, his residency in
psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a Fellowship in
Liaison Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
He has been a
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s House of Delegates from the
Middlesex West District since 1995. He resides in Brookline.
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. The Middlesex West District is comprised of nearly 600 physicians
who work and live in 18 communities in the MetroWest area.
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.
