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| Warren Ferguson, MD, is the Worcester District Medical Society 2016 Community Clinician of the Year. |
Warren J. Ferguson, MD, has been honored by his peers from the Worcester District Medical Society as the district’s 2016 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing his professionalism and contributions as a physician. Dr. Ferguson, vice chair and professor of family medicine & community health at UMass Medical School and medical director of the Mass Area Health Education Center Network, will receive the award at the district’s annual meeting on Apr. 13.
The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to recognize a physician from each of the 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community. The Worcester District has more than 2,100 physician members.
In nominating him for the award, his colleagues noted that Ferguson’s “rigorous academic career has focused on the health care needs of vulnerable populations, with strategies ranging from the classroom to the clinic to behind prison walls.” With years of leadership roles at the Family Health Center of Worcester, Commonwealth Medicine and the UMass Health and Criminal Justice Program, Ferguson has made “significant contributions to patients, the community and the profession of medicine.”
Ferguson has received numerous previous honors, including the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in Diversity and the Educational Achievement Award from UMMS; Family Physician of the Year from the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians; Outstanding Physician of the Year from the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; and the Andy Nichols Award for Social Justice by the National AHEC Organization.
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