Dr. Carl Isihara Elected Chairman of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Board of Trustees

Newton, MA - (March 2008) — Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty physician group with practice sites throughout eastern Massachusetts, is pleased to announce that Dr. Carl Isihara has been elected Chairman of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Board of Trustees.

"The Board of Trustees is delighted to have Dr. Isihara as its chairman," says Randy S. Stone, Chair of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Governance Committee and a former executive at Teradyne. "We are confident that Dr. Isihara will add critical leadership skills to our board and to Harvard Vanguard, bringing both his rich knowledge of our practice and his broad understanding of the Boston health care community and national health care trends."

Isihara has been a primary care internist at the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Braintree practice since 1986, and he has been chief of the Internal Medicine Department since 2000. He has served on Harvard Vanguard Board of Trustees since its inception and played a role in the creation of Atrius Health, an alliance of five multi-specialty medical groups including Harvard Vanguard. In addition, he has been a part of the Atrius Health Board of Trustees since it was created and was a member of the Governance Committee.

Previously, Isihara was a member of the Harvard Community Health Plan Physicians’ Council, serving as its Secretary and as Chair of its Personnel and Professional Development Committee. He holds an appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves as a preceptor in the joint primary care internal medicine residency program of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Vanguard.

Isihara earned his BS degree in chemistry from Yale University, a PhD in micro and molecular biology from Case Western Reserve University, and his MD from the intensive 2-year PhD to MD program from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and completed his training in internal medicine with additional clinical training in preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.