Massachusetts Governor's Newsletter May 2026
In this Issue:
- Governor's Welcome
- Chapter Activities
- 2025-2026 National and Chapter Awardees
- New MACP
- New Fellows (since July 1, 2025)
Lauren B. Doctoroff, MD, MBA, FACP
Governor's Welcome
It is an honor to be starting my tenure as the Governor of our Massachusetts ACP Chapter. I assume this role from Dr. Judith Melin, to whom we owe many thanks for her leadership over the past 4 years.
The strength of our chapter arises from the creativity, commitment, curiosity, clinical excellence and engagement of our members, from trainees to retirees, and everyone in between. Please feel free to reach out directly to me (maacp2@mms.org), particularly if you are interested in getting more involved in chapter activities.
Let me introduce myself
For those of you whom I do not already know, here is a brief introduction. I trained at MGH in the primary care program, but work primarily as a hospitalist, now a home-based hospitalist through Mass General Brigham. Feel free to ask me about home hospital as it is new to many. I have worked in multiple different settings over the years, including in a community hospital as a hospitalist, for many years as a hospitalist at BIDMC, and in a post discharge clinic there, and now caring for hospital-level patients at home. My career passion is in care innovations to enable us to better care for patients. In my quest to understand innovation better, I pursued MBA training at Brandeis in 2021. On a personal level, I live in Cambridge with my partner, and in my free time, love to spend time outside and with my family.
Chapter Activities
To update you on recent Chapter activities, we had a great contingent of MA ACP members out on the west coast at IM 2026, another fabulous update on the current guidelines and hot clinical topics. I personally went to a very humbling workshop on diagnosing murmurs and using POCUS, and a great talk on Cardiorenal Syndrome.
Our esteemed chapter did not go unnoticed. MA ACP members Adam Rodman updated the national audience on AI and clinical care, Zahir Kanjee continued with his Beyond the Guidelines Series, and the keynote was given by Ashish Jha, who has notable Massachusetts roots. In addition, our chapter won a John Tooker Evergreen Award, which provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The Massachusetts Chapter received the 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, Annual Chapter Poster Competition: Increasing the Value for Trainees and Judges. We are proud that our Doctors Dilemma Team from Saint Vincent Hospital made it to the Semifinals, though our neighbors to the south, Connecticut, took home the Osler Cup. We had a great showing at our Chapter Reception and at the IM Convocation.
MA ACP Chapter Members at our reception in San Francisco, CA
I would also like to congratulate all of our national and chapter award winners, new MACP and new Fellows recognized during the convocation
Saint Vincent Hospital Doctor's Dilemma team
As we head into the summer, the chapter will not be dormant, with several upcoming meetings including the next installment in our Navigating Medicine series on Immigrant Health, Call for Abstracts for our Abstract/Poster Competition and a lot of planning for our 2026 MA ACP Annual Scientific Meeting. Save the Date of Saturday, October 24, 2026 and join your colleagues in Waltham.
As I noted at the outset, I take on this new role so excited for the future. I sincerely hope that during these troubled times for healthcare, physicians and this country overall, that ACP and our MA Chapter can be a small beacon of light. It is my commitment to all of you that I will work to make this true over the next four years and beyond.
2025-2026 National and Chapter Awardees
- ACP Award for Outstanding Contributions to Improving Well-being and Professional Fulfillment in Internal Medicine - Kerri L. Palamara, MD, MACP
- Chapter Leadership Award – Jodian Pinkney, MD, FACP
- Early Career Leadership Award – Petal Elder, MD, FACP
- Resident/Fellow Leadership Award – Kannu Bansal, MD
- Resident/Fellow Leadership Award – Ibrahim Kamel, MD, MHA
- Robert A. Lebow Advocacy Award – Representative Gregory Schwartz, MD
- Chapter Laureate Award – Elisa Choi, MD, MACP
New MACP
Elisa I Choi, MD, MACP
Our new Master, Dr. Elisa Choi with new Governor Dr. Lauren Doctoroff and Chapter Administrator, Lynda Layer
New Fellows (since July 1, 2025)
- Hans Chiang, MD, FACP
- Petal L. Elder, MD, FACP
- Matthew R. Greenwood, MD, FACP
- Zachariah E. Hale, MD, FACP
- Terry Huynh, MD, FACP
- Anup Karlath, MBBS, FACP
- Leo W. Lane, DO, FACP
- Robert V. Le, MD, FACP
- Zachary C. Liao, MD, FACP
- James C. S. Liu, MD, FACP
- Anastasia A. Maltseva, MD, FACP
- Rodrigo C. Rocha, MD, FACP
- Ariadne S. Scott, MD, FACP
- Madhav Sharma, MD, FACP
- Dhiran Verghese, MD, FACP
- Sareem Wani, MD, FACP
- William White, MD, FACP