President/CEO of the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education to serve as Governor-Elect of the PA-ACP

President/CEO of the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education to serve as Governor-Elect of the PA-ACP

January 17, 2022

Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, president and CEO of the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, has been elected governor-elect for the Eastern Region of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians (PA-ACP) .

Beginning in April, she will serve a year as governor-elect alongside Dr. Lawrence H. Jones, Eastern Region Governor whose term expires in 2023. Her four-year term as governor starts in April 2023.

Founded in 1915, the American College of Physicians is a national organization of internists specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of adults. It is the largest medical specialty organization in the nation, with more than 161,000 members, of which more than 7,800 are members of the PA-ACP chapter. The PA-ACP Chapter has three Regional Governors who represent the East, West and South East regions of the Commonwealth.

“I am honored and proud to represent and advocate on behalf of my fellow physicians whom we represent, the medical profession we embody, and the patients, families, and communities we serve through the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians,” said Thomas-Hemak, who previously received the prestigious Dr. Ann Preston Women in Medicine and PA-ACP Laureate awards in 2020 and 2014 respectively. “Our collective mission to improve health care and access to it has certainly been challenged by the pandemic, but we remain committed to exceeding the high standards we strive for every day to improve health and well-being. be of our local, state and national communities.

“I am grateful and inspired by the incredible opportunity for honor and leadership,” she added.

Overall, the American College of Physicians strives to improve the quality and efficiency of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine and promotes quality patient care, advocacy, education, and professional growth in internal medicine and its subspecialties.

The 87-member Board of Governors is an advisory council with representatives from Alabama to Alberta, Bangladesh to Brazil, and Ontario to Pennsylvania. Collectively, the elected members of the council act as an advisory council to the college’s decision-making body, the Board of Regents. The Board of Governors implements national projects and initiatives at the chapter level and represents the concerns of members at the national level.

Born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania, Thomas-Hemak earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Scranton. After graduating from the Michael DeBakey Scholar at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and completing the combined Harvard Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency in Boston, Massachusetts, she returned to the area to practice and teach. primary care. She joined the Wright Center in 2000 and became president of the Wright Center for Community Health in 2007. In 2012, she was named president and CEO of the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education.

Along with her executive responsibilities, Thomas-Hemak is also board certified in Pediatrics, Addictions, and more recently, Obesity Medicine. Her favorite work responsibilities are teaching and providing comprehensive primary health care services to multi-generational families served by the Wright Center for Community Health’s Mid Valley practice in Archbald and Jermyn, her home community where she was born, raised and currently resides. with her husband and three children. .

For more information about the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, go to TheWrightCenter.org or call 570.343.2383.