By Pat Sargent
UMass Chan Medical School Communications
November 17, 2022
James Ledwith, MD
The Worcester District Medical Society is recognizing James Ledwith, MD, adjunct prof of household medicine & assemblage health, with the Dr. A. Jane Fitzpatrick Community Service grant for his years of work to susceptible diligent populations successful the Worcester area.
The grant was established successful 1991 arsenic a tribute to the lifelong enactment of retired pediatrician A. Jane Fitzpatrick Kilroy, MD, who served Worcester’s Department of Public Health arsenic a schoolhouse doc from 1959-1985. It recognizes a subordinate of the wellness attraction assemblage for contributions beyond nonrecreational duties to amended the wellness and well-being of others.
“I’m honored and truly humbled due to the fact that I look astatine the names of immoderate of my colleagues who person received the grant successful the past,” Dr. Ledwith said. “I’ve been softly trying to spell astir doing this work enactment and engaging students, but receiving the grant truly is precise meaningful and it’s an grant to person designation for the enactment I’ve been doing.”
The Worcester District Medical Society describes Ledwith arsenic “an unthinkable resource, generous collaborator and outstanding diligent advocate.”
“[Dr. Ledwith] has defined his vocation done years of work to susceptible diligent populations. In particular, the attraction of patients suffering from the opioid situation wherever helium was instrumental successful the improvement of guidelines for harmless opioid prescribing for physicians and students,” said Martha Wright, enforcement manager of the group.
Ledwith is the aesculapian manager for a student-run escaped aesculapian programme astatine Epworth United Methodist Church connected Salisbury Street successful Worcester and has served arsenic UMass Chan’s module advisor for the Worcester Free Care Collaborative pupil radical since 2018.
“I enactment to prosecute first- and second-year aesculapian students earlier they are nether the unit of the clerkships and worrying astir residencies, to speech astir superior care, the gaps successful superior attraction and the persistence of request for entree for folks who are vulnerable,” said Ledwith.
Ledwith is simply a household doc astatine UMass Memorial Medical Center. He serves arsenic a learning assemblage mentor astatine UMass Chan and teacher successful the household medicine clerkship and residency programme and the opioid safe-prescribing grooming immersion. Ledwith is besides 1 of 11 physicians crossed the authorities moving arsenic an on-call advisor for the Massachusetts Consultation Service for Treatment of Addiction and Pain.
The grant was presented to Ledwith connected Nov. 15 during the Worcester District Medical Society’s autumn meeting.
“Receiving the grant is thrilling. It’s a large headdress to each the enactment I’ve done implicit the past 40 years,” said Ledwith. “Our acquisition ne'er ends. Maybe that’s a bully acquisition for maine to stock with our aesculapian students arsenic well. We support connected learning and evolving our signifier and our skills to conscionable the needs and I’m hoping I tin promote a fewer different younger physicians to instrumentality connected this enactment arsenic I hole to dilatory down.”
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