WALTHAM – Dr. Paula
Jo Carbone of Sudbury has been selected as the Middlesex Central District
Medical Society’s 2018 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing her
professionalism and contributions as a physician.
Dr. Carbone is an
Internal Medicine physician and the Medical Director at Lahey Health Primary
Care of Sudbury. She is also on the medical staff of Emerson Hospital.
She is a 1985
graduate of Wesleyan University, earned a medical degree from the University of
Vermont College of Medicine in 1990 and in 2001 received an MBA in Health Care
Management from Boston University.
Dr. Carbone has
been a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s House of Delegates since
2014.
The Community
Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts
Medical Society to recognize a physician from each of the organization’s 20
district societies who has made significant contributions to his or her
patients and the community.
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medical students, supporting 25,000 members. We are dedicated to educating and
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