Waltham,
Mass. – April 10th – Candace Lapidus Sloane, M.D., Chair of the Massachusetts
Board of Registration in Medicine, has been honored by the Massachusetts
Medical Society as the 2017 recipient of the society’s Woman Physician
Leadership Award, an honor recognizing outstanding leadership and contributions
to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician. She will receive the honor at the
Massachusetts Medical Society’s Women’s Leadership Forum in September.
Following a
20-year tenure as a pediatric dermatologist culminating as dermatology
Residency Director at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Dr. Sloane
was appointed to the Board of Registration in Medicine in 2011, reappointed in
2014, and again by Governor Charles Baker in 2017. She has been annually elected chair five
times by her peers on the Board.
Dr. Sloane is currently
a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medical Science at the Alpert Medical School
of Brown University and serves as an interviewer and application reviewer for
its Admissions Committee. She is also a
Fellow of the Federation of State Licensing Boards, an Overseer of Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, and a member of the Adjunct Medical Staff of Boston
Children’s Hospital.
A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts
University, she received her M.D. from the Tufts University School of
Medicine. She resides in Needham.
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.
