Primary Inspiration

There is nothing remarkable about suite 605 in the Wang Building at Massachusetts General Hospital. Located at the end of a long hallway, its glass door opens to Internal Medicine Associates (IMA), the largest of Mass General’s 18 adult primary care practices. With nearly 200 staff members, the IMA is well known for providing outstanding primary care — handling more than 75,000 appointments annually.

The Many Flavors of Primary Care at Mass General

At a time of soaring nationwide demand for primary care physicians, Massachusetts General Hospital is trying to train new ones and hold onto veterans like Will Schmitt, MD.

Tracing the Arc of History

The new Paul S. Russell, MD, Museum of Medical History and Innovation is scheduled to open later this year but there is no end in sight to efforts to track down artifacts that can help tell the Massachusetts General Hospital story.

Prepping for Modern Medicine

Brian Nahed, MD, and Eric Chang, MD, aspire to spend their careers operating on patients at home and abroad, and wanted to help train neurosurgeons in the developing world who often perform the toughest of cases.

As Star in the Lonestar State

Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, was serving as director of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA) when he received a phone call from a member of the search committee for the center’s next president. It was 2000, and he had spent the previous five years building the center’s pediatric transplant service from scratch, the first of its kind in central and south Texas. The person on the other end of the line told him he was on the short list for the presidential post.