James S. Gessner MD

Dr. Gessner is the president (2016-2017) of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He recently retired from Anaesthesia Associates of Massachusetts, one of New England’s largest private practice anesthesiology groups. He is board-certified in anesthesiology and pediatrics and holds appointments in anesthesiology at the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston Medical Center, and Mount Auburn Hospital. Dr. Gessner received a B.M.S. from Dartmouth Medical School in 1970 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1972. He completed residencies in pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital and in anesthesiology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1981. Since 2000, he has been an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Boston Medical Center and was a Clinical Instructor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School from 1979-1998.