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Mallika Marshall, MD is the Medical Reporter for WBZ-TV News and is anchor of WBZ-TV 's regular medical series HealthWatch. Dr. Marshall is the only practicing physician/television medical reporter in New England. In addition to her reporting duties here in Boston, Dr. Marshall is also regular contributor to the CBS Early Show, CBS Newspath, and the CBS Evening News. Trained as both a pediatrician and internist, Dr. Marshall currently practices medicine at MGH-Chelsea Urgent Care, where she treats both children and adults.
Dr. Marshall graduated cum laude from Harvard College and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine with honors. She completed her residency training at the Harvard Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Training Program and is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
During her medical training, Dr. Marshall has received numerous awards including the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society Award and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award "in recognition of extraordinary leadership and inspiration in advancing the goals of social and economic justice." In 1996, she received the AMWA Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation awarded for academic excellence to the top seven women in the graduating class at the UCSF School of Medicine. She was also selected by the Girl Scouts Patriots' Trail Council as a 2005 Leading Woman and named an Exceptional Woman by MAGIC 106.7 in 2003.
Dr. Marshall was an Associate Editor of the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, which was published in 1999, and served as a Contributing Editor for the Harvard Medical School website, InteliHealth. In addition to her work at MGH/Chelsea, she has been affiliated MGH in Boston, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Marshall currently sits on the Board of Directors for Dress for Success Boston, and serves as a board member for The Alice Bacon Fund, which was established to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing biomedical science and medical careers.
Originally from Washington, D.C., Dr. Marshall is the daughter of ABC News correspondent Carole Simpson.
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