Selina A. Long, MD, President Elect

Dr. Selina A. Long is an assistant professor in anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a staff anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree with special honors from the University of Chicago and her medical degree, AOA, from the University of Vermont. She completed a medical internship at Northwestern University and an anesthesia residency at the Beth Israel Hospital with a pediatric anesthesia fellowship from Boston Children’s Hospital. She is board certified and has worked in both private and academic practice. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, she currently teaches ACLS and ATLS at the medical center.

Dr. Long has been interested in the interface between medicine and politics throughout her career. She was involved in the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists while in New York, and since returning to Massachusetts has been an active member of the MSA, on the Governmental Affairs committee, as an attendee of the ASA LegislativeConference, and as an alternate and then a delegate to the ASA House of Delegates. She has served as secretary of the MSA for four years, and is currently the president-elect.

On the personal side, she has two daughters, Charlotte, age sixteen and Gwendolyn, age fourteen. They keep busy with a dog, two birds, a rabbit, and traveling, applying to college, theatre, cooking, horseback riding and figure skating. Whew!