Mass General Neurology Community Health

Community Health

Our community outreach programs include serving patients at our local community health centers located in Back Bay, Chelsea, Revere and Charlestown, and satellite locations including Waltham and southern New Hampshire. For over forty years, we have hosted programs to help patients navigate the complex health care system, and we are committed to increasing access to high-quality, personalized care for the patients and communities we serve. These programs include a monthly Neurology clinic at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, hosted by our residents and faculty, who see and assist homeless individuals in the management of a wide variety of outpatient neurologic conditions, including seizures, movement disorders, stroke and headache.

The Anne B. Young Visiting Scholar Award

We are delighted to announce the creation of the Anne B. Young Visiting Scholar Award. This recognition will be given periodically to individuals or groups who contribute to understanding people with different experiences in Neurology. The public announcement of this award came during the Mass General Neurology Bicentennial Celebration on October, 13, 2011.

Awardees will be invited to share their experience with the Mass General Neurology community during a visit that will include giving Grand Rounds and spending time with trainees. The Committee is excited to name the award after Dr. Young, celebrating her great accomplishments improving Neurology at Mass General and beyond.

Dr. Young continues to inspire a growing number of women to pursue Neurology careers around the globe. She is the first female chief of service at Mass General Hospital, and has made tremendous progress recruiting, retaining, and advancing the field of Neurology at our institution. Dr. Young is the only person to have been both President of the Society for Neuroscience, and the American Neurological Association. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded the Joseph B. Martin Dean’s Award for Leadership in Advancement of Women at Harvard Medical School in 1999.