30th Annual MLK Celebration Leadership Award Recipient: Salvatore Molica

Salvatore Molica

Director, Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester

30th Annual MLK Leadership Award

Dr. Salvatore J. Molica is a family medicine doctor in Dorchester Center, Massachusetts and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area. He has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Dr. Salvatore J. Molica is a family medicine doctor in Dorchester Center, Massachusetts and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area. He has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Salvatore Molica, who earned the S.B. in biology from MIT in 1975, is being honored for his commitment to public health and family medicine. As medical director of the Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, he helped establish outreach programs that now serve as national models for the innovative engagement of health care professionals in their communities. Larry Culpepper, chair of the Family Medicine Department at Boston University School of Medicine, describes the programs created by Molica as "models of the integration of primary care and public health in supporting the rebuilding of high-risk urban regions."