Waltham – April 25th
– Mary Louise Ashur, M.D. has been honored by her physician peers of the
Norfolk District Medical Society as the district’s 2017 Community Clinician of
the Year.
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 Norfolk District is comprised of more than 3,000
physicians who live and work throughout Norfolk County.
Dr.
Ashur is being honored for her efforts in assisting families affected by
domestic violence, her medical teaching, and her community activities.
Board
certified in internal medicine, Dr. Ashur is an internist with Neponset Health
Center of Harbor Health and serves patients from Milton, Needham, and other
greater Boston communities. She is also
an internal medicine physician at Neponset Health Center in Dorchester, where
she also serves as the Coordinator for Medical Education.
Before
moving to Harbor Health in 2017, Dr. Ashur was in private practice in Milton,
and prior to 2010, she was a physician at Carney Hospital in Dorchester for 22
years. From 1994-2009, she served as the Medical Director for Carney Hospital’s
Women’s Clinic for Health and Safety, an interdisciplinary clinic for men and
women survivors of domestic violence.
Besides
her clinical responsibilities, Dr. Ashur is a member of the Medical Staff
Quality Improvement Committee and the Medical Executive Committee of Beth
Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton. She
has been member of the Massachusetts Medical Society since 1986, and currently
serves that organization as a member of its House of Delegates and its
Committee on Professional Liability. She
is also an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, a
Lecturer in Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and an Instructor
at Harvard Medical School.
The
Community Clinician of the Year Award is the latest in long list of awards Dr.
Ashur has received for her medical and community activities. Among them are the Excellence in Tutoring
Award from the Academy at Harvard Medical School, the 2017 Betty and Ernie
Singer Prize for Sustained Excellence in Teaching from Harvard Medical
Students, and the Teaching Award from the Affiliated Physicians Group of Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is also the 2017 recipient of the Thanks
Badge 2 from the Eastern Massachusetts Council of the Girls Scouts of the
U.S.A. for ongoing commitment, leadership, and service to Girl Scouts. Dr.
Ashur has been the Council’s Medical Consultant for Camps for more than 20
years.
Dr.
Ashur earn her A.B. in biology magna cum
laude from the College of the Holy Cross and her M.D. from the University
of Connecticut School of Medicine. She
resides in Milton.
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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
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