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RIMS FOUNDATION

Rhode Island Medical Society Foundation


235 Promenade Street, Suite 500
Providence RI 02908
401-331-3207
Fax 401-751-8050

Trustees
The RIMS Foundation is governed by a five-member board of trustees, which is comprised of the three most recent past presidents of the Society, the current president and the current treasurer.

Barry Wall, MD, President
Mark S. Ridlen, MD, Secretary-Treasurer
K. Nicholas Tsiongas, MD, MPH
Kathleen Fitzgerald, MD
Fredric V. Christian, MD
Newell E. Warde, PhD, Executive Director

The RIMS Foundation is a scientific, educational, charitable and peer review foundation. It was approved by the Internal Revenue Service on June 6, 1983, as a 501(c)(3) organization. Under this designation, it may "promote health and welfare in the community by engaging in charitable, educational and scientific activities related to the field of medicine." The RIMS Foundation may receive gifts from any individual or organization, and donations are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by law.


Funds within the RIMS Foundation
• Benevolence Fund*
• Physicians' Health Fund
• Providence Medical Association Scholarship Fund
• Founders' Fund
• Medical Liability Education Fund
There is also an Unrestricted Fund.

*The Benevolence Fund is administered by its own set of Trustees:
Daniel Moore, MD
Frank Sullivan, MD.


Updated 10/26/07

Promenade Street Providence RI