WALTHAM - Alain A. Chaoui, M.D., a Boxford resident and primary
care physician and president with Congenial Healthcare, LLC, a private practice
group with multiple sites on the North Shore, has been elected president of the
Massachusetts Medical Society at the organization’s annual meeting April 28 at
the Seaport Hotel in Boston.
Chaoui will
serve a one-year term as the top officer of the medical society, the statewide
professional association of physicians with more than 25,000 members.
The son of
immigrant parents, Chaoui
received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Ain Shams University,
Faculty of Medicine, in Egypt and completed his residency at Akron City
Hospital and Saint Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio.
He served as Chairman of the Family
Practice Department of North Shore Medical Center, Union, and Salem Hospitals
from 1998-2013, and in 2014 served of those hospitals as president of the
medical staff. During that time, he was also a member of the Board of Trustees
of North Shore Medical Center.
Chaoui was the Massachusetts Medical
Society’s vice president last year and, the year prior, was
secretary-treasurer. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and House of
Delegates and is past chairman of the Committee on Membership. He is also a
past president of the Essex South District Medical Society and is the current
Chair of the Massachusetts Delegation to the American Medical Association.
Dedicated to medical education, Chaoui holds
four teaching positions: Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and
Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, Assistant Clinical
Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, Clinical
Adjunct Professor at Boston College School of Nursing, and Clinical Professor
in the School of Physician Assistant Studies at Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Active in the community, Chaoui served
as the physician for the Saugus Public Schools from 2000-2008 and continues to
serve that community as the physician for the Saugus Department of Public
Health, a position he assumed in 2000.
Among a number of honors Chaoui has
received are recognition by Connolly’s Top Doctors for 2017-2018, which is
published by America’s Top Doctors and based on peer
nomination; the 2016 Masters Graduate Nursing Preceptor Award from the
University of Massachusetts-Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences; the
Partners in Excellence Individual Award in 2011 and 2015; Physician of
Excellence Award from the Medical Staff of the North Shore Medical Center in
2009; the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Excellence in Primary Care
Award in 2008; the Teacher of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Academy of
Family Physicians in 2005; and the Preceptor of the Year Award from the Boston
College School of Nursing in 2001.
The
Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is the statewide professional association
for physicians and medical students, supporting 25,000 members. We are
dedicated to educating and advocating for the physicians of Massachusetts and
patients locally and nationally. A leadership voice in health care, the MMS
contributes physician and patient perspectives to influence health-related
legislation at the state and federal levels, works in support of public health,
provides expert advice on physician practice management, and addresses issues
of physician well-being. Under the auspices of the NEJM Group, the MMS extends
our mission globally by advancing medical knowledge from research to patient
care through the New England Journal
of Medicine, NEJM Catalyst, and the NEJM Journal Watch family of
specialty publications, and through our education products for health care
professionals: NEJM Knowledge+, NEJM Resident 360, and our accredited and
comprehensive continuing medical education programs.
