Dean Xerras is from the greater Boston area and attended Tufts University where he majored in Spanish. He then received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his medical residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he also served as Primary Care Chief Resident. He currently practices general internal medicine at MGH Chelsea Healthcare Center, where he also serves as its medical director. As an associate physician at MGH, he is an active member of various committees, including Primary Care Team Leaders and the Primary Care Executive Committee. In addition to his clinical and administrative roles, he is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and enjoys teaching MGH residents in their continuity clinics at the health center and on the Bigelow Medical Service. Awarded a National Health Service Corps Scholarship while in medical school, he has continued his career dedicated to community medicine, with the hope of reducing disparities in health care delivery among underserved patient populations, achievable in part by his service on the Board of Health in Chelsea since 2006