Waltham – April 18th
– North Falmouth resident David F. Hyatt, M.D., a physician at Good Samaritan
Medical Center in Brockton, has been honored by his peers of the Plymouth
District Medical Society as its 2017 Community Clinician of the Year, an award
recognizing his professionalism and accomplishments as a physician. He received the award April 5 at the annual
meeting of the district society held at the Neighborhood Club of Quincy.
Dr. Hyatt is Chief
of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Good Samaritan Medical Center, a
position he has held since 1995. He is also on the active staffs of Brockton
Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Milton and previously served on the
staffs of Carney Hospital, New England Sinai Hospital, Morton Hospital, and
South Shore Hospital.
Board certified in
surgery and thoracic surgery, Dr. Hyatt is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons, American College of Chest Surgeons, and the American College of
Cardiology.
He earned his
undergraduate degree, Phi Beta Kappa, in Microbiology from Syracuse University
and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was
elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society.
Dr. Hyatt is also a
Clinical Instructor in Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine and an
Assistant Clinical Professor in Surgery at Boston University School of
Medicine. He is a veteran of the United
State military, having served as a General Surgeon in the U.S. Army with the
rank of Major.
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 Plymouth District
has nearly 600 physician members who live and work throughout Plymouth County.
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.
