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June 15 , 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Julie Rosen, Executive Director
617-724-1778
The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Announces New Board Leadership
Boston — The Schwartz Center, a nonprofit organization housed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers, elected Peter A. Biagetti, as Chair of its Board of Directors. Thomas Lynch, MD, was elected Vice Chair. A member at Boston-based law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, Biagetti succeeds Andrew Dreyfus, executive vice president for health care services at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Lynch, currently deputy chief for Hematology-Oncology at MGH, succeeds Tony Starr, also a member at Mintz, Levin.
Biagetti is a trial lawyer in the litigation department at Mintz Levin
and is a member of its Policy Committee. He received his BA from Harvard
College (1978) and his JD from Harvard Law School (1981). A founding
Board member of the Schwartz Center, Biagetti served as Treasurer
from 1996 to 2004 and as co-chair of its Programming Committee from
2003 to 2006.
Lynch, an MGH oncologist who is an expert in lung cancer treatment,
is also the director of the MGH Thoracic Center. He has authored or
co-authored more than 100 articles in major medical journals and educational
publications, and has a particular interest in end-of-life care and
issues of patient-caregiver communication. Lynch was a founding member
of the Board of the Schwartz Center and Ken Schwartz's oncologist.
He was instrumental in establishing the first Schwartz Center Rounds
at MGH in 1997. A physician since 1986, he earned his medical degree
from Yale Medical School, completed his residency at MGH, and his
fellowship training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
"I am extremely honored to be able to carry on the extraordinary legacy started by my close friend and colleague Ken Schwartz," said Biagetti. "I look forward to helping to expand our work across the country in order to improve compassion in today's challenging health care system." Adds Lynch, "As a practicing oncologist, the programs of the Schwartz Center, particularly the Schwartz Center Rounds, have had a profound impact on the way in which my colleagues and I care for our patients."
About the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center
Shortly before his death from lung cancer in September of 1995, Kenneth
B. Schwartz, formerly a partner at Mintz, Levin, established a Center
dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers
in the changing health care system. Operating under the 501(c)3 tax
exempt status of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Kenneth B.
Schwartz Center is an autonomous, nonprofit organization with a mission
to support and advance compassionate health care in which caregivers,
patients and their families relate to one another in a way that provides
hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the
healing process. The Center's most successful and fastest growing
program, the Schwartz Center Rounds, is now operating in over 100
sites in multiple states.
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