Buffalo Surgeon Richard M. Peer, MD, Elected Chairman of the Board of the State Medical Society

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (04/26/2012)(readMedia)-- Richard M. Peer, MD, past president (and the 200th president) of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY), was elected Chairman of the Board of the MSSNY Board of Trustees at its 206th annual House of Delegates (HOD) meeting in Saratoga Springs, NY, on April 21. A Buffalo surgeon, in his role as Chairman, Dr. Peer will oversee ...

Dr. Peer is a board-certified general and vascular surgeon who has devoted most of his personal and professional life to the Buffalo-Rochester area. After graduating cum laude from Canisius College in Buffalo, he earned his medical degree with Distinction in Research from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and then completed both his internship and residency at the University of Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital, where he was chief resident. Back home at Buffalo General Hospital, Dr. Peer was chief of the vascular surgery division from 1991-1995 and remains an associate surgeon there.

He is in private practice with the Buffalo Medical Group and is the medical director of two healthcare facilities and a consultant for Roswell Park Cancer Center. Dr. Peer is also an associate clinical professor of surgery at the State University at Buffalo, where he has taught since 1977.

Dr. Peer has worked actively on behalf of organized medicine – locally, statewide and nationally. He was a founder and the first president of the Western NY Physicians Executive Group and the president of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine, the Buffalo Surgical Society, the Erie County Medical Society and the Western NY Vascular Society. Dr. Peer has represented NY as a delegate to the AMA and been appointed to several policy-making committees. He has served MSSNY in other offices and worked on committees that range from lobbying and healthcare reform to education and bio-terrorism (BT). For the latter, Dr. Peer has toured the state to teach physicians BT preparedness.

Dr. Peer's numerous community involvements include being a founding member of the Kalieda Health Foundation Board and volunteering for the Family Respite Campaign Cabinet for People, Inc.

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