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Wellforce congratulates and welcomes Dr. Jenny Chiang to her new role as Medical Director for the Wellforce Care Plan.

Lawrence, Mass. – As a healthcare professional who has endured the personal and professional tolls of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Linda Miller, RN felt both relieved and honored when her turn came to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. She is now giving back by volunteering to administer inoculations at Lowell General Hospital’s regional vaccination site at Cross River Center, located at 1001 Pawtucket Blvd. East in Lowell.

Lauren Brousseau has been promoted to director of development and corporate communications at Home Health Foundation, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization under the Wellforce health system which provides home health, palliative and hospice care in all the places patients call home.

Internationally esteemed clinician and health equity researcher, Karen Freund, MD, MPH has been named Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, effective February 1. She will also assume the role of Chair of the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, both effective February 1.

Lawrence, Mass. – Home Health Foundation President and CEO Karen Gomes, RN, MS, CPHQ has been elected as vice president of the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts Board of Directors.

Lawrence, Mass. – Kathy Duckett, MSN, RN has joined Home Health Foundation, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization, as director of Advanced Care at Home. The new department is based at Circle Home in Lowell, a provider agency of Home Health Foundation and part of Wellforce Health System.

Board president emeritus retires following 15 years of service.

Nationally recognized neuroradiologist Christopher Filippi, MD, has been named Radiologist-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center.

Tufts Medical Center has named an interim Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. John Wong.

Wellforce, the high quality, integrated Massachusetts health system, has united its member organizations under a new name - Tufts Medicine.

This year, I have the honor of serving a one-year term as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, an organization that works to advance the collective goals of 71 hospitals across the state.

International Expert in Antimicrobial Resistance Helen W. Boucher, MD, Named Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center

Diane Farraher-Smith, MSN, MBA, RN, former President of Hallmark Health VNA and Hospice System VP of MelroseWakefield Healthcare and former Interim Executive Director of Circle Home, joins the Home Health Foundation (HHF) Executive Management Committee (EMC) as Chief Clinical Integration Officer.

Tufts Medical Center announced today that Rachel J. Buchsbaum, MD, has been named Director of the Cancer Center, effective August 12, 2019. Dr. Buchsbaum, a nationally-recognized physician, researcher, educator and leader in breast cancer therapy, risk assessment and prevention, will steer the cancer programs at Tufts MC.

Joseph A. White, MBA, FACHE, president and CEO, Lowell General Hospital and Circle Health, is the 79th Chair of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association (MHA). He succeeds Mark A. Keroack, MD, MPH, president and CEO, Baystate Health.

Dr. Daniel Carlat has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry and medical director of inpatient psychiatry at MelroseWakefield Healthcare.

Tufts Medical Center announced today that Ming Zhou, MD, PhD, a world-renowned urological pathologist, researcher and academic, has been named Pathologist-in-Chief

Each year, Lowell General Hospital employees nominate managers and supervisors for their outstanding leadership and contributions to the organization. The Rewards and Recognition Council votes for the year’s Cupola Award recipients based on the nominees’ abilities to meet the hospital’s Standards of Performance and the dimensions of Completed connected care through personal stories or specific actions shared by the nominees’ team.

MelroseWakefield Healthcare named the first recipients of the inaugural Alan Macdonald Leadership Award. Scholarships were awarded to five employees to support the development of their leadership skills.

Dr. Tarnoff will become the new Surgeon-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center in June.