Joseph M. Heyman, MD
Joseph M. Heyman, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist with a private practice in Amesbury, Mass., has been a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT) since 2002. He served as chair of the AMA-BOT for 2008–2009, secretary (2005–2006) and was chair of the finance committee.
Dr. Heyman has been involved in organized medicine since joining the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) in 1973. He has served the MMS as president, vice president, trustee and speaker of its House of Delegates. He joined the AMA in 1980 and has been a member of the Massachusetts delegation to the AMA since 1987. He was also a member of the AMA Council on Medical Service, serving on its executive committee (1997–2000) and as its chair (2000–2001).
Dr. Heyman serves on the board of commissioners of the Joint Commission, the board of directors of Joint Commission Resources and the steering committee of the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health collaborative. He is also a member of the World Medical Association Council and the certification/adoption workgroup of the national Health IT Policy Committee, which makes recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He has served as president of the Essex North District Medical Society and on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Practicing Physicians Advisory Council.
Dr. Heyman is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He served for 13 years as president of Women’s Health Care, a private group practice in West Newbury, Mass., and now enjoys solo practice. Since joining the medical staff of the Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., in 1973, he has served as chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, medical staff president and member of the executive committee of the hospital’s board of trustees, among other roles.
A past board member of the Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization, Dr. Heyman continues to serve on the boards of the Lower Merrimack Valley Physician Hospital Organization and the Whittier Independent Practice Association, an organization he founded that today represents more than 200 physicians in northeastern Massachusetts.
A native of New York, Dr. Heyman received his BS degree from City College of New York and his MD from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He served his internship with the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y., and his residency at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. For two years, he served in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Northern Navajo Indian Hospital, Shiprock, N.M.
Dr. Heyman and his wife, Laurie, a social worker in private practice, live in West Newbury and have two grown children.
2009–2010
