NSMC physician elected President-Elect of Massachusetts Medical Society

Waltham, Mass. – May 1 - North Shore Medical Center physician Alain A. Chaoui, M.D. has been elected President-Elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional organization for more than 25,000 physicians and medical students in the Commonwealth. Elected at the organization’s annual meeting April 27 in Boston, he will serve a one-year term as one of the top three officers of the Society.

Board certified in family medicine, Dr. Chaoui is a solo primary care physician at Family Medicine North in Peabody, a practice he established in 2006.

From 2014-2015 he was President of the Medical Staff at North Shore Medical Center and served as Chairman of the Family Medicine Department at North Shore Medical Center, Union, and Salem Hospitals from 1998-2014.

A longtime active member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Dr. Chaoui served the organization as Vice President during the last year. Prior to that, he served one year as Assistant Secretary-Treasurer and two years as Secretary-Treasurer. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees and House of Delegates and is past chairman of the Committee on Membership. He is a past president of the Essex South District Medical Society and is the current Chair of the Massachusetts Delegation to the American Medical Association.

Besides his medical practice and activity in organized medicine, Dr. Chaoui is dedicated to medical education, instilling in future physicians and nurse practitioners a love of medicine and pride in the profession and teaching them how to be thorough and excellent health care providers. He holds four teaching positions: Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, Clinical Adjunct Professor at Boston College School of Nursing, and Clinical Professor in the School of Physician Assistant Studies at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. His passion for medical education is demonstrated by the fact that since 1996 he has had his medical students from the Boston area complete their clinical training in his office.

Also active in the community, Dr. Chaoui served as the physician for the Saugus Public Schools from 2000-2008 and continues to serve that community as the physician for the Saugus Department of Public Health, a position he assumed in 2000.

Among a number of honors Dr. Chaoui has received are recognition by Connolly’s Top Doctors for 2017, which is published by America’s Top Doctors and based on peer nomination; the 2016 Masters Graduate Nursing Preceptor Award from the University of Massachusetts-Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences; the Partners in Excellence Individual Award in 2011 and 2015; Physician of Excellence Award from the Medical Staff of the North Shore Medical Center in 2009; the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Excellence in Primary Care Award in 2008; the Teacher of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians in 2005; and the Preceptor of the Year Award from the Boston College School of Nursing in 2001.

Dr. Chaoui received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, in Egypt and completed his residency at Akron City Hospital and Saint Thomas Hospital of the Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. He resides in Boxford.

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.