Henry L. Dorkin, M.D. is elected President-Elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society

Waltham, Mass. – May 5 – Henry L. Dorkin, M.D. of Boston Children’s Hospital has been elected President-Elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society at the organization’s annual meeting May 5 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston. As President-Elect, he will serve a one-year term as one of the three top officers of the Society, the statewide professional association of physicians with more than 25,000 members.

A member of the Medical Society since 1982, Dr. Dorkin has served the organization in a number of capacities, most recently as a member of the MMS Board of Trustees and Vice President from 2015-2016. He is also a member of the House of Delegates, as well as the Committees on Legislation, Preparedness, Membership Services, and the Organized Medical Staff Section. He also serves as Chair of the Task Force on Electronic Health Records Interoperability and Usability and is a member of the Task Force on Audits. As Vice President, he was a member (ex-officio) on many other MMS committees, including Finance, Strategic Planning, Quality of Medical Practice, and Publications. From 2010-2013, he was President of the Suffolk District Medical Society.

Dr. Dorkin is Clinical Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseases, Director of the Pulmonary Clinical Research Program, Co-Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Clinical Center, and Co-Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutic Development Center, all at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, a position he has held since 2002.

In addition to his clinical responsibilities at Boston Children’s, Dr. Dorkin has held a number of voluntary positions with local, regional, and national medical and health organizations. He is a past Chair of the Section on Pediatric Pulmonology of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a Past Chair of the Center Committee of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). He is currently a member of the Pediatric Assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the Pulmonology Section of the AAP and the CFF National Medical Advisory Council. He has also been a member of the Professional Education Committee of the CFF since 1991 and is currently Chairman of that committee, a position he has held for 20 years.

Dr. Dorkin’s teaching and practice activities have included lectures and presentations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and national meetings of the AAP, ATS and CFF. A widely-published author on a variety of topics about cystic fibrosis, pediatric and respiratory medicine, he continues as a manuscript reviewer for a number of medical journals. He established the Division of Respiratory Diseases at the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1981 and was its Division Chief until 2002 when he moved to the faculty of the Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Dorkin is a cum laude graduate of the College of Engineering at Lehigh University with a B.S. in Engineering Chemistry and membership in the National Engineering Honorary Society of Tau Beta Pi. He earned his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Dorkin moved to Massachusetts in 1977 for a Fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. He and his wife Kathy reside in Newton.

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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