About me
John W. Burress, MD, MPH, FACOEM
Chief of Occupational Medicine
Dr. John W. Burress is an experienced occupational medicine physician with many years of service to the working men and women in the Boston area. Dr. Burress completed his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Kentucky. He completed a Family Medicine residency in Greenville, South Carolina and then his residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine through the Harvard School of Public Health.
His training emphasized care for working populations, with clinical rotations in plastic surgery, sports orthopedics, and emergency medicine that built deep expertise in soft tissue repair, complex wound care, and acute injury management. He later directed Occupational Medicine clinics in community settings and spent ten years at Boston Medical Center as Medical Director of their Occupational Medicine Department.
In 2015, Dr. Burress founded OccMed Consulting & Injury Care to deliver timely, evidence-based care that prevents chronicity and improves outcomes. Overtime, Dr. Burress built a considerable following of construction-related employers but also serviced utility, transportation, and hospitality sectors. Dr. Burres has an established track record assisting with municipalities including their fire and police departments.
Dr. Burress provides disability management to government and private organizations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He is a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner and a HIMS AME. Dr. Burress serves as Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Guideline Writing Committee and a past Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Public Health Committee and former national Board Member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Burress enjoys writing and makes use of his clinical acumen and disability management experience to perform various evaluations including IME and impairment ratings.
Centers: The Occupational Medicine Center
Locations: Boston
