Peabody physician Alain A. Chaoui, M.D. is elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society

Waltham, Mass. – May 16 - Peabody physician Alain A. Chaoui, M.D. has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional membership organization for more than 24,000 physicians and medical students in the Commonwealth. Elected at the organization’s annual meeting May 15 in Boston, he will serve a one-year term in that leadership post for the Society. He served as Assistant Secretary-Treasurer for the last year.

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. He served as Chairman of the Family Practice Department of North Shore Medical Center, Union and Salem Hospitals from 1998-2013, and in 2012 was elected President-Elect of the Medical Staff of those hospitals. On January of this year, he began a two-year term as President of the Medical Staff. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of North Shore Medical Center.

A longtime active member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Dr. Chaoui is a member of the Board of Trustees and House of Delegates and is past chairman of the Committee on Membership. He is also 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 began in 2000.

Among a number of honors and awards Dr. Chaoui has received are the Partners in Excellence Individual Award in 2011, 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 more than 24,000 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 NEJM Journal Watch alerts and publications covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts, conducting a variety of medical education programs for physicians and health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country.