The Board consists of seven members who are appointed by the Governor to three-year terms. There are two public members and five physician members. A member may serve only two consecutive terms. Members sometimes serve beyond the end of their terms before a replacement is appointed. Each member also serves on one or more of the Board's committees.
Peter Glenn Paige, M.D., Chair, Physician Member
Dr. Paige was appointed to the Board in 2006 and reappointed in 2009. He is a Board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician, and a graduate of SUNY Health Science Center Medical School in Syracuse, NY. Dr. Paige completed his residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. He is Vice-Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor at UMass Memorial Medical Center. He is very active in the community and was named Volunteer of the Year by the American Heart Association, Northeast Affiliate, for his hard work as Chairman of the Worcester Heart Ball. Dr. Paige is also Chairman of the Children's Injury Prevention and Pediatric Trauma fundraiser. He serves as Chair of the Board's Patient Care Assessment Committee.
Honorable Herbert H. Hodos, Vice Chair, Public Member
Judge Hodos graduated from Yale University in 1960 and from Boston College Law School in 1963. He practiced law in general practice in Springfield from 1964 to 1966 with the law firm of Robinson and Dibble and from 1966 to 1993 in Greenfield as a partner of the law firm of Levy, Winer. Judge Hodos was appointed to the Massachusetts Trial Court as a judge of the Greenfield District Court in 1993, and served as its first justice from 1995 until his retirement from the bench in 2008. Judge Hodos was appointed to the Board in 2008. He was presented with the judicial excellence award for the District Court by the Massachusetts Judges Conference in 2008. He has been involved in numerous civic, charitable and professional positions locally as well as statewide throughout his career. Judge Hodos is Chair of the Complaint Committee.
Mary Jo Harris, Esq., Secretary, Public Member
Attorney Mary Jo Harris was appointed to the Board in 2009. She has practiced in the Boston area since 1992. Ms. Harris’s legal career has focused on civil rights and employment matters through her work with the City of Boston, the Boston Police Department, and in private practice, including partnership in a Boston boutique labor and employment firm. Currently, Ms. Harris is an associate general counsel handling employment matters for a national company. She is a graduate of Kenyon College and Northeastern University School of Law. Ms. Harris has served on the Executive Committees of the Boston Inn of Court and the Federal Bar Association, and is President of the Federal Bar Association, Massachusetts Chapter, 2011-2012.
Melissa P. Hankins, M.D., Physician Member
Dr Hankins was appointed to the board in 2009. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College, and graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Hankins completed her residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, which included Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Dr. Hankins is a board certified Psychiatrist, and practices at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Prior to HVMA, Dr. Hankins was a member of a private group practice, and was on staff at Cambridge Health Alliance, with a focus on meeting the needs of the underserved and helping to develop and lead an outpatient team to meet the unique needs of the African-American population in the area. She also served as a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and was an American Psychiatric Association/AstraZeneca Fellow from 2000-2002. Dr. Hankins has been a member of the Black Psychiatrists Forum of Greater Boston. She serves as the Board Designee to the Physician Health and Compliance Unit.
Thea L. James, M.D., Physician Member
Dr. James was appointed to the Board in 2009. She is an Emergency Medicine Physician, and is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. James currently serves as Director of the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program at Boston Medical Center, where she is also Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. She is President-elect of the Medical Dental Staff at Boston Medical Center. She is a member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Public Health Association. Dr. James is a co-founder of Unified for Global Healing, a non-profit organization providing health service, education and cultural awareness in Haiti, Ghana, and India. She has published on issues of health disparities and cultural awareness in medicine.
Gerald. B. Healy, M.D., Physician Member
Dr. Healy was appointed to the Board in 2011. He is the emeritus Surgeon-in-Chief and the emeritus Gerald B. Healy Chair in Otolaryngology at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Healy is Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School, and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, the Triological Society, the American Laryngological Association, the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology and the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery. He has served as President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, the American Bronchoesophagological Association, and the Triological Society, and was Secretary and President of the American Laryngological Association. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons and is a past-President of the College. In 1986, Dr. Healy was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Otolaryngology and served as its Executive Vice-President until 2004. He has also served as a Director of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Dr. Healy was a Trustee of Children's Hospital Boston and is currently a Trustee of Boystown in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Healy is the author of several books and book chapters and/or monographs, and is extensively published in peer-reviewed journals. He has been the principal investigator of NIH funded research addressing diseases affecting infants and children and has been cited for his pioneering work with laser surgery in children. In addition he has lectured in North America, Asia and Europe on health care reform, patient safety, the need to restructure medical education and international medical collaboration.
Candace Lapidus Sloane, M.D., Physician Member
Dr. Sloane was appointed to the Board in 2011. She earned BS (Magna Cum Laude) and MD degrees from Tufts University. She interned in Pediatrics at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and served her Pediatric Residency at New York Hospital. She was a Pediatric Fellow and Instructor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She later completed a Residency in Dermatology in the combined Boston University/Tufts University Medical School program, and was Chief Resident in Dermatology her third year. Dr. Sloane is board certified in Pediatrics, Dermatology, and Pediatric Dermatology. She served as an Instructor on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Boston University School of Medicine, Director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology Service and Director of the Community Health Center Initiative in Dermatology at Boston Medical Center; an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics and Director, Fellowship in Primary Care Dermatology at the Boston University School of Medicine; and as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. At Brown she was head of Pediatric Dermatology at Rhode Island Hospital, served as Dermatology Residency Director, and a Member of the Medical School Admissions Committee. She has lectured widely in the US and Europe, and authored or co-authored many publications in Pediatrics and Dermatology. Her special area of research interest is atopic dermatitis.
Stancel M. Riley, Jr, M.D., MPH, MPA, Executive Director
In August 2009, Dr. Riley was appointed Executive Director of the Board, taking charge of the state agency which licenses and regulates the more than 40,000 physicians and acupuncturists practicing in the Commonwealth. In addition to his duties at the Board, he also advises other state agencies on patient safety and health care quality issues. Dr. Riley received his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1972 and is board certified in surgery and thoracic surgery. He practiced as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Huntsville Hospital in Alabama for 22 years. In 2005, he received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and in 2004, a Master of Public Administration from the John F Kennedy School of Government. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Chest Physicians, Dr. Riley is also a member of the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association, the Society for Critical Care Medicine and the International Heart Transplant Society. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, the Patient Safety Steering Committee of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council, and the Hospital Mortality Rate Expert Panel of the Massachusetts Department of Health Care Finance and Policy. In 2010 Dr. Riley was named Chair of the technical Advisory Panel of the National Quality Forum Committee on Serious Reportable Events and Healthcare Acquired Conditions. He was also a Harvard Macy Scholar at the Harvard Macy Institute for Leading Innovations in Health Care Delivery and Education in 2011. Dr. Riley is an adjunct faculty member of Emerson College where he taught a course on Leadership, and he holds the position of Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a tutor for the Patient Doctor III course at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Riley is also a research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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