Mark DeFrancesco, MD, has been a surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare since 1999.
Dr. DeFrancesco is a past president of both the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the AAAHC.
He earned his degree from Mansfield-based University of Connecticut School of Medicine and later returned to earn an MBA from The University of New Haven (Conn.).
He co-founded one of the largest OB-GYN practices in the country, Danbury-based Women’s Health Connecticut/Physicians for Women’s Health.
Dr. DeFrancesco is a past Connecticut state representative.
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