Joseph Bergeron, M.D. is elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society

Waltham – April 16 – Acton resident Joseph Bergeron, M.D., a physician with Atrius Health/Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional association of physicians with 25,000 members. As Secretary-Treasurer, he will serve a one-year term as one of the top officers of the Society.

A longtime, active member of the Medical Society and currently a member of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Bergeron has served the organization in a number of capacities since becoming a member in 1991. In addition to his work on many committees and task forces, he has chaired the Committees on Legislation, Nominations, Finance, and Strategic Planning and has been a member of the Committees on Telemedicine, Managed Care, Professional Liability, and Medical Service. He currently serves on the Committees on Senior Physicians, Administration and Management, Publications, and is a member of the Organized Medical Staff Section. He is also a representative to the American Medical Association’s Senior Physicians Committee. He was President of the Middlesex North District from 1995-1997.

Board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology, Dr. Bergeron has been a pathologist with Atrius Health/Harvard Vanguard since 2005 and is director of site labs in five communities and a member of Atrius Health’s Quality Assurance Committee. From 1991-1993, he was Director of the Laboratory and Chief of Pathology at St. Joseph’s Hospital, which subsequently merged into Saints Memorial Medical Center.

He previously practiced at Lowell General Hospital, Saints Memorial Medical Center, and Chelsea Soldiers Home-Quigley Memorial Hospital, where he was Director of the Laboratory from 1997-2007. From 1996-1997, he was president and CEO of New England Pathology Services.

He is a member of several medical specialty organizations, including the College of American Pathologists, the Massachusetts and New England Societies of Pathologists, the U.S. and Canadian Society of Pathology, American Medical Association, and the AMA and Massachusetts Medical Society Organized Medical Staff Sections. He previously served as a Councilor for the American Society of Clinical Pathology and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Pathology Foundation.

In 2015, Dr. Bergeron received two honors from the Massachusetts Medical Society. Physician colleagues in the Middlesex North District Medical Society selected him as its Community Clinician of the Year, an award that recognizes a physician from each of the Society’s 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community.

Dr. Bergeron also received the Society’s Committee Chair Service Award, an honor that recognized his nine years of service on the Committee on Finance, which oversees the finances and budgets of the Society.

Dr. Bergeron received his B.A. and his M.D. from Louisiana State University. A U.S. military veteran, he served in the U. S. Air Force Medical Service Corps from 1970-1972. 

The Massachusetts Medical Society, with some 25,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society, under the auspices of NEJM Group, publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education providing accredited and certified activities across the globe for physicians and other health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. For more information please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.

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