MMS Selects 2004-05 Leadership Team

WALTHAM, Mass. — The Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide membership organization for some 18,000 physicians, residents, and medical students, announced its 2004-2005 leadership, elected last month at its annual meeting at Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston.

Elected President was Alan C. Woodward, M.D. of Concord. Woodward is chief of emergency services at Emerson Hospital in Concord. For the last year, he was president-elect and prior to that, served a one-year term as vice president.

A member of the MMS since 1983, he has served the society in many capacities, including as a member of its board of trustees, its House of Delegates, and numerous committees.

Alan M. Harvey, M.D., M.B.A., Director of Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital was elected president-elect.

Kenneth R. Peelle, M.D., a board certified radiologist at Saints Memorial Medical Center in Lowell, was elected vice president. A resident of North Andover, Peelle joined the Society in 1975 and served as the speaker of the House of Delegates for three years and vice speaker for three years. He is a past president of the iddlesex North District Medical Society.