03/18/15
Marie Walsh Condon, M.D., named 2015 Community Clinician of the Year
Arlington resident Marie Walsh Condon, M.D. has been honored by her physician peers of the Middlesex District Medical Society as the district’s 2015 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing her professionalism and contributions as a physician to medicine and to the community. She will receive her award at the district society’s annual meeting April 11 at the Museum of Science.
Board certified in family medicine, Dr. Condon is Medical Director of Medford Family Care, a part of Winchester Physician Associates, a multi-specialty physician practice providing health care for patients of all ages through 20 locations north of Boston. She joined the practice in 2010 and became Medical Director in Medford in 2012. In 2012, Dr. Condon became a member of the Winchester Physician Associates Leadership Council and was recently appointed to the Winchester Hospital Physician Hospital Organization Board of Directors.
Dr. Condon has been a member of the Arlington Town Board of Health since 2008 and was elected chair last year. In 2012, she was appointed Community Physician for the town, and in that capacity reviews policies and programs affecting residents’ health, including police department and human resources procedures, recreational activities, and vaccination clinics.
She has also participated in various volunteer activities at the Dallin School, including the Books on the Go program, a literacy program for children in kindergarten through grade 2, and from 2007-2010, she participated in the Malden High School’s Teen Parent Program, a monthly health and wellness program for teenagers who have become parents.
Prior to attending medical school, Dr. Condon was health inspector for the Town of Bedford from 1994-1996 and Director of Public Health for the town of Arlington from 1996-2002.
Dr. Condon is a graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a master’s degree in biology. She earned her medical degree from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 2007. She was named to the Tufts Medical Alumni Association Executive Council in 2014.
The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to recognize a physician from each of the Society’s 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community and who stands out as a leading caregiver. The Middlesex District is comprised of more than 2,100 physicians who live and work in 22 communities in Middlesex County.