Jeffrey Drazen, the HMS Parker B. Francis Distinguished Professor of Medicine and senior physician at Brigham and Women’s, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2021 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award, given to a member of the Society who has made lasting contributions to the practice of medicine over a lifetime in health care delivery, patient care, education, and administration and who has made significant contributions to the goals of the Society. Drazen is a renowned educator and researcher and former chief of pulmonary medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess and Brigham and Woman’s. He served as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 2000-2019, steering the journal through the publication of landmark studies that included articles on early peanut consumption in infants at risk for allergy, research of trastuzumab for HER2-positive breast cancer, and the earliest research on Ebola virus disease in West Africa.
