May 4, 2007

Ferris named MGPO medical director

Timothy Ferris, MD, (left) has been named medical director of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO). He succeeds Gregg Meyer, MD, who has become the MGH/MGPO senior vice president for Quality and Patient Safety.

In addition to being a nationally recognized expert in disease management, Ferris also is a general internist and pediatrician at the MGH Everett Community Health Center, vice chair for Quality and Safety of the MassGeneral Hospital for Children and a health policy researcher with the MGH Institute for Health Policy. Before attending medical school, he received a master's degree in social anthropology from Oxford University. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he earned the Pediatrics Prize, awarded to the member of the graduating class whom the faculty would most like to have caring for their own children. Ferris completed his clinical training in the Harvard Combined Program in Medicine and Pediatrics at the MGH and received a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.