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26 HEALTH • Winter 2016 Harrington HealthCare System in Southbridge. Board certified in internal medicine, Rehman is completing a fellowship in oncology and hematology at Boston Medical Center. Before that, he completed his residency and internship in internal medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, VA Medical Center, in the Bronx, N.Y. He received his bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery from Khyber Medical College at the University of Peshawar in Peshaware, Pakistan. HERATH WIJERATHNA has joined the department of internal medicine at Southboro Medical Group in Framingham and is now seeing patients at the 761 Worcester Road location. She received her medical degree from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and completed a residency in internal medicine at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. { Newsworthy } People, providers and practices Continued from previous page [ MO V ERS & SHAK ERS ] developing workplaces that value employees, foster engagement, invest in training and reward performance. A nonprofit human service agency, Venture Community Services was chosen for its employee recognition program. UMass Memorial-Marlborough Hospital hosted a reception honoring and thanking the members of the hospital's auxiliary. The board decided to disband the auxiliary; its members will now work with the hospital's scholarship committee establishing criteria, reviewing applications and selecting applicants. JOYCE A. MURPHY, executive vice chancellor of UMass Medical School's Commonwealth Medicine division, is now clerk of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare Board of Directors. The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare is a national nonprofit focused on bringing compassion to patient-caregiver interactions. Murphy was appointed to serve on the board in October and previously had served on its leadership council. She has been a senior executive at Commonwealth Medicine since 2011, after five years at UMass Medical School. She has worked at several hospitals in administrative positions and serves on numerous boards and commissions. CHANTAL DEWEY has joined the staff at Tri-County Medical Associates. She is board certified in family medicine and is accepting patients of all ages. She joins Tri-County Medical's Blackstone Valley Family Physician office in Northbridge. Dewey earned her doctor of medicine degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and completed her residency at UMass Medical School in Worcester. [ ACCOLADES & HONORS ] Sturbridge-based Venture Community Services was named a 2016 Employer of Choice by the Employers Association of the Northeast. The awards recognize companies and organizations for H