Welcome from the CEO & Keynote Address: Leadership with Inclusivity: A Paradigm Shift

Dr. George M. Abraham is Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Chief of Medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and H Sciences (MCPHS).Dr. Abraham is the Immediate-Past Chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), the organization that oversees licensing of over 1.1 million physicians in the US, and also the Federation Credentials Verification Service (FCVS). Prior to that he was the Chair of the Board of Registration (Licensing) in Medicine, Massachusetts. He served as a member of the Advisory Commission on Additional Licensing Models (ACALM).He is the Emeritus President of the American College of Physicians (ACP) which is the largest internal medicine specialty organization in the world, having served from 2021-22. Prior to that he served as Governor of the Massachusetts Chapter, Chair of the Board of Governors (ACP) and as a member of the Board of Regents (ACP).Dr. Abraham serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and prior to that, has served as the Chair of the Infectious Disease Board of the ABIM. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.

In other roles in leadership, he has served as a Trustee of the Massachusetts Medical Society (owner of the New England Journal of Medicine), as President of the Worcester District Medical Society, as the Chief Medical Officer of the Central Massachusetts Independent Physician Association and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts.

He has received several awards including the AOA Volunteer Faculty Award and the Outstanding Primary Care Educator Award of UMass Medical School; the Leadership Award of the MA chapter of the ACP; and the Phi Lambda Sigma honorary Membership, MCPHS, Worcester, Massachusetts, Saint Vincent Hospital Physician of the Year 2015, John H. Clarke Leadership Award awarded by the Federation of State Medical Boards among others. Most recently he is the recipient of the Massachusetts Medical Society Clinician of the Year (Worcester) 2025.He is an invited speaker both locally, nationally and internationally. As President of ACP, he has championed the cause of inclusivity and written extensively about the same. Consequently, he has been invited to and has spoken both nationally and internationally on inclusivity and continues to do so. His particular passions is the international medical graduate community that forms 25 percent of the US physician workforce and over 30% of the ACP’s membership. For his work on inclusivity, the Virginia chapter of the ACP has named their Inclusivity award after him.

His research interests include hepatitis C and B disease, travel medicine and infection control, as well as medication safety and systems improvement. He has authored over 125 publications, abstracts and book chapters, and is an invited speaker at national and international meetings.

Dr. Abraham earned his medical degrees from the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India, completed his residency and chief residency at Saint Vincent Hospital, and received his master’s degree in public health (infectious disease epidemiology) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.