Awards & Honors

Amy Fitzpatrick MD,
Honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society

Amy Fitzpatrick, MD, MS, assistant professor of general internal medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has been honored with the Women’s Health Award from the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS). The award recognizes a physician for outstanding contributions advancing women’s health in the state.

Fitzpatrick is a board-certified internal medicine and addiction medicine physician at Boston Medical Center and the medical director of Bedrock Recovery Center, which serves people in the Greater Boston area and beyond by supporting them in recovering from substance use disorders. In 2019, she was selected as an expert in both addiction and chronic pain for the Massachusetts Consultation Service for the Treatment of Addiction and Pain program. Through this program, she supports Massachusetts clinicians caring for patients with chronic pain, substance use disorders, or both, integrating her expertise in women’s health. She serves as a mentor and resource for clinicians across the state seeking support in caring for this patient population.

I believe my expertise in women’s health helps me better serve women with substance use disorders, many of whom are mothers and bear the additional stigma that comes from being a mother with addiction.

Amy Fitzpatrick, MD, MS

“I believe my expertise in women’s health helps me better serve women with substance use disorders, many of whom are mothers and bear the additional stigma that comes from being a mother with addiction,” says Fitzpatrick. 

Fitzpatrick has advanced women’s health in Massachusetts and beyond through curriculum development and scholarship. She created educational materials to train new clinicians in benign breast disease and high-risk screening for women with increased risk of breast cancer. She collaborated with other clinical researchers to understand the unique needs of our patients around breast density, resulting in a peer-reviewed publication. She also has authored a chapter on Benign Breast Conditions for a women’s health textbook. Most recently, Fitzpatrick published research on hospital provider perspectives on medicine for opioid use disorder, and barriers and facilitators to implementing treatment for opioid use disorder in community hospitals. At the national level, she helps shape imaging guidelines as a member of the Appropriateness Criteria Breast Imaging Committee for the American College of Radiology.

After receiving her medical degree from BU in 2006, Fitzpatrick completed residencies in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

The Massachusetts Medical Society is the statewide professional association for physicians and medical students, supporting 23,000 members. They are dedicated to educating and advocating for the physicians of Massachusetts and patients locally and nationally. A leadership voice in health care, the MMS contributes physician and patient perspectives to influence health-related legislation at the state and federal levels, works in support of public health, provides expert advice on physician practice management and addresses issues of physician well-being.