Massachusetts Medical Society
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The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is the oldest continuously-operating state medical society in the United States
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. Incorporated
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 on November 1, 1781, by an act of the Massachusetts General Court
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, the MMS is a non-profit organization that consists of approximately 22,000 physician
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s, medical student
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s and residents. It is currently based in Waltham, Massachusetts
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. The majority of the members live or practice in Massachusetts
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 and the immediate vicinity.

The Massachusetts Medical Society is the owner and publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine
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. It also publishes the Journal Watch
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 family of professional newsletters.

In addition to its publishing activities, the key activities of the MMS include medical education for physicians, public health education for physicians and the public, legislative and regulatory advocacy for physicians and patients, and health policy research.

Officers:
Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, M.D., F.A.C.P. - President

Lynda Young, M.D., Vice President - President-Elect

Richard V. Aghababian, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.

Deanna P. Ricker, M.D. - Secretary-Treasurer

Peter B. Kang, M.D. - Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

Richard S. Pieters, M.D. - Speaker

Jesse Ehrenfeld
Jesse Ehrenfeld
Jesse Menachem Ehrenfeld is an American physician. Ehrenfeld is the Vice Speaker of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and is the youngest officer in the 228 year history of the organization. He is also a former Vice-President of the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists...

, M.D., M.P.H. - Vice Speaker

Corinne Broderick - Executive Vice President

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