A longtime North Shore doctor has won election as the 142nd president of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Hugh Taylor, of Ipswich, who has been practicing as family physician in Hamilton for 41 years, will lead the statewide professional organization of physicians and medical students for a one-year term ending in May 2025.
Taylor has been an Massachusetts Medical Society member since 1983, and he’s a past president of the Essex South District Medical Society.
He serves on the board of trustees of Beverly Hospital as well as Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, where he is a past president of the medical staff.
The 25,000-member Massachusetts Medical Society has its main offices in Waltham with regional offices in Lakeville and Wilbraham.