NARH Medical Staff Elects New President

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Dr. Jeffrey Doshier
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dr. Jeffrey Doshier, medical director of psychiatric services at North Adams Regional Hospital, recently began a two-year term as president of the NARH Medical Staff.

As president, Doshier ischief administrative officer of the medical staff, chairs its Executive Committee and calls and presides at all meetings.

Doshier earned his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He joined the NARH Medical Staff in 2007 as medical director of Greylock Pavilion, the hospital’s inpatient psychiatric service.

“I am pleased to serve as the president of the NARH Medical Staff,” said Doshier. “My colleagues, the physicians who practice in this area, are very talented physicians who have chosen the Berkshires to do their life’s work.”

Doshier said an overwhelming majority of the NARH Medical Staff members are board certified in their respective fields. “Board certification means our physicians meet the highest standards of their specialties, ensuring the highest quality of care is provided in northern Berkshire County.”

NARH has more than 80 physicians on its active medical staff representing more than two dozen medical specialties including anesthesiology, cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, hospitalist medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, oral surgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, pathology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, podiatry, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, radiology, urology, and physiatry.

For information on members of the NARH Medical Staff, visit www.nbhealth.org and click on “Find a Doctor.”
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Clarksburg Sees Race for Select Board Seat

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town will see a three-way race for a seat on the Select Board in May. 
 
Colton Andrews, Seth Alexander and Bryana Malloy returned papers by Wednesday's deadline to run for the three-year term vacated by Jeffrey Levanos. 
 
Andrews ran unsuccessfully for School Committee and is former chairman of the North Adams Housing Authority, on which he was a union representative. He is also president of the Pioneer Valley Building Trades Council.
 
Malloy and Alexander are both newcomers to campaigning. Malloy is manager of industrial relations for the Berkshire Workforce Board and Alexander is a resident of Gates Avenue. 
 
Alexander also returned papers for several other offices, including School Committee, moderator, library trustee and the five-year seat on the Planning Board. He took out papers for War Memorial trustee and tree warden but did not return them and withdrew a run for Board of Health. 
 
He will face off in the three-year School Committee seat against incumbent Cynthia Brule, who is running for her third term, and fellow newcomer Bonnie Cunningham for library trustee. 
 
Incumbent Ronald Boucher took out papers for a one-year term as moderator but did not return them. He was appointed by affirmation in 2021 when no won ran and accepted the post again last year as a write-in.
 
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