#  Rebecca Brendel Named President-Elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society 

 





June 17, 2025

 

 

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[Dr. Rebecca Brendel](https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/rebecca-weintraub-brendel), Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and former Faculty Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, has been named President-Elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society. She will begin her term as President in June 2026.

A leader in psychiatry and medical ethics, Dr. Brendel has focused on issues at the interface of psychiatry, medicine, law, ethics, and human rights.

Read the [full article](https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/news/center-director-named-president-elect-massachusetts-medical-society) here.