Welcome to the Worcester District Medical Society website. It is an honor to serve as President of this association that can trace its roots back 230 years!

In April 2024, I had the awesome experience of getting “pinned” by Dr. Giles Whalen our immediate past-President who has been to me an outstanding example of strong graceful leadership the last two years. Standing up front seeing our past presidents and my teachers was indeed a humbling experience.  A big thank you to Dr. Michelle Hadley our incoming Vice-President, Dr. Justin Maykel our Secretary, and Dr. Adib Karam our Treasurer for volunteering your time and talent for these positions of service. A big thank-you also to Martha Wright our Executive Director. We as a team intend to do our best to fulfill the mandate of following the example of prior outstanding leaders in promoting the WDMS as the premier medical society in MA and the USA!

Everyone I am sure has ideas of how to improve the activities and functioning of WDMS, and we do too.  However our agenda is to serve you the members of the Worcester District and take up the challenge of:

1. Increasing the membership of WDMS
2. Increase member engagement, as well as exposure of new (and not-so-new) members to the Worcester community via “Health Matters” the signature television program of the WDMS.

We also intend on working hard on the long-term financial stability of the WDMS so that we maintain and enhance the multiple programs we host every year. To achieve all of this, I request every member to be proactive in reaching out to your friends and colleagues to participate and contribute in all our meetings. I encourage you to email and telephone your thoughts and suggestions to the officers and chairpersons of various committees as we press towards our goal of pushing WDMS to greater heights.

A special note to the editorial team of our flagship magazine “Worcester Medicine”: Please carry on publishing wonderful articles on topics so relevant to our Worcester community.  I wish all success to our editor Dr. Parul Sarwal who is working hard on the print and on-line versions of our magazine, as well as on social media presence for WDMS.

When we look around today at radio, television and print media, as well as social media platforms: we often see echo chambers of one-sided opinions to the exclusion of alternate view-points resulting in loss of integrity and trust in these outlets. At the WDMS, as we try to increase engagement of existing members and attract new members, we should always present balanced versions of any controversial subject so that “Worcester Medicine” as well as our Medical Society stands out as an inclusive (the “I” of DEI) organization.

Thank you once again to all our members for placing your confidence in our leadership team.

And visitors to this website: we encourage you to join our Society to contribute to and partake in all our activities.

Sincerely,

Alwyn Rapose, MD.
Alwyn.rapose@reliantmedicalgroup.org