Profession
Mass. medical association elects new leaders
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted June 13, 2005
Anesthesiologist Alan M. Harvey, MD, recently was installed as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which announced its 2005-06 leadership at its annual meeting in Boston.
Dr. Harvey is director of quality assurance/quality improvement and patient safety in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Kenneth R. Peelle, MD, a radiologist at Saints Memorial Medical Center in Lowell, Mass., was picked as president-elect. Dr. Peelle joined the medical society in 1975 and has served as speaker of the house of delegates and vice speaker. B. Dale Magee, MD, a Shrewsbury, Mass., obstetrician-gynecologist, was elected vice president.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/06/13/prbf0613.htm.