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DeVoe brings extensive experience as a highly-accomplished and nationally-respected financial healthcare leader.

New Chief Operating Officer to advance system strengths and address changing industry dynamics.

Brent P. Forester, MD, MSc. joined the Tufts Medicine family as Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chairman for the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center, Director of Behavioral Health for Tufts Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry and the Dr. Francis S. Arkin Chair of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Tufts Medicine announced today that Perrie O'Tierney-Ginn, PhD, has been named the permanent Executive Director of the Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI) at Tufts Medical Center. She had served as the Interim Executive Director of MIRI since September 2021.

Miriam O’Leary, MD, is named chair of the departments of Otolaryngology at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine.

Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine announced today that Jason Hall, MD, a colon and rectal surgeon and an internationally renowned expert in diverticular disease, has been named Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Surgery and Benjamin Andrews Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Madigan brings decades of marketing, branding and strategy experience to the Wellforce health system.

BURLINGTON, MA, December 13, 2021 – Wellforce today announced that Emily Young, MBA, has been named President of its newly formed Clinically Integrated Network (CIN).

John Adam Reich, MD has been named Anesthesiologist-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center.

Helen Boucher, chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center, professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and a director of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (Levy CIMAR), has been named to a new, joint position as interim dean for Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer for Wellforce.

MelroseWakefield Healthcare today announced that Pamela Whelton, former President of South Shore Hospital, will assume the role of interim Chief Executive Officer effective June 14. She will replace Sue Sandberg who is moving to Colorado to be with family.

Lawrence, Mass.  – Kelli True, BSN, RN has been promoted to director of referral management and transitions of care at Home Health Foundation, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization under the Wellforce Health System which provides home health, palliative, hospice, aide and private care services in all the places patients call home.

Wellforce congratulates and welcomes Dr. Jenny Chiang to her new role as Medical Director for the Wellforce Care Plan.

Lauren Brousseau has been promoted to director of development and corporate communications at Home Health Foundation, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization under the Wellforce health system which provides home health, palliative and hospice care in all the places patients call home.

Internationally esteemed clinician and health equity researcher, Karen Freund, MD, MPH has been named Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, effective February 1. She will also assume the role of Chair of the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, both effective February 1.

Lawrence, Mass. – Home Health Foundation President and CEO Karen Gomes, RN, MS, CPHQ has been elected as vice president of the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts Board of Directors.

Lawrence, Mass. – Kathy Duckett, MSN, RN has joined Home Health Foundation, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization, as director of Advanced Care at Home. The new department is based at Circle Home in Lowell, a provider agency of Home Health Foundation and part of Wellforce Health System.

Nationally recognized neuroradiologist Christopher Filippi, MD, has been named Radiologist-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center.

Tufts Medical Center has named an interim Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. John Wong.

Wellforce, the high quality, integrated Massachusetts health system, has united its member organizations under a new name - Tufts Medicine.