Avery Lachance

Avery LaChance, MD, MPH is a dermatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she serves as the dermatology department’s Director of Health Policy and Advocacy and Director of the Connective Tissue Disease Clinic. She graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Japanese Studies and received her MD, MPH from University of Connecticut School of Medicine. During her MPH year, she drafted legislation to ban tanning for minors in CT and then served as a key advocate for the bill which passed and was signed into law that year. Dr. LaChance completed an internship in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During this year she also completed a six-week internship at the Office of the Surgeon General where she worked on federal skin cancer prevention initiatives in the wake of the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer. Subsequently, she trained in dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and in her final year she served as the chief resident. Dr. LaChance is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Academy of Dermatology and New England Dermatological Society. She is a member of committees of the American Academy of Dermatology as well as the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. LaChance teaches medical students, residents, and fellows at Harvard Medical School and conducts research on connective tissue disease and health policy. She is incredibly passionate about physician engagement in health policy and advocacy initiatives and is thrilled to have the opportunity to join the MAD Board of Dermatology to play a role in helping to amplify the dermatology voice in advocacy efforts in our state.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2022)
• Director, Connective Tissue Disease Clinic, Department of Dermatology Brigham and Women's Hospital (2018)
• Director, Health Policy and Advocacy, Department of Dermatology Brigham and Women's Hospital (2018)
• Instructor Harvard Medical School (2018 — 2021)
• Chief Resident Harvard Medical School (2017 — 2018)
• Dermatology Resident Harvard Medical School (2015 — 2018)
• Internal Medicine Intern Brigham and Women's Hospital (2014 — 2015)