Denise M. Arcand, M.D., of West Warwick, has been appointed as the 47th president of the Kent Hospital medical staff. Dr. Arcand succeeds Herbert J. “Hub” Brennan, DO, of East Greenwich, who has served as medical staff president since 2013. This leadership position is filled every two years by a member of the Kent medical staff who is distinguished as a leader in the field of medicine, chosen by their medical staff peers.

Arcand is a board certified family medicine physician, who has served on the Kent Hospital medical staff since 2001. She is the lead physician at Arcand Family Medicine, in West Warwick, where she has practiced since 2001. Arcand also currently serves as the medical director of Alpine Nursing Home, in Coventry. She received her medical degree from Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and completed a family medicine residency at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, ME. Her special clinical interests include women’s health and geriatrics. Arcand’s father, Alfred A. Arcand, M.D., also served as president of Kent’s medical staff from 1990-1992.

“On behalf of Kent Hospital, I would like to congratulate Dr. Arcand on her appointment as president of the Kent medical staff,” Michael J. Dacey, MD, MS, FACP, president and COO at Kent Hospital said in a statement. “Dr. Arcand is a well-known community physician who brings great oversight and clinical leadership to our medical staff. I would also like to express great appreciation to Dr. “Hub” Brennan for his years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the Kent Medical Staff and the hospital community. Dr. Brennan will continue to be a tremendous advocate for Kent, his patients and the community.”

Brennan is an internal medicine physician and has been a member of the Kent Hospital medical staff since 1996. He is a partner in Brennan, Cronin and Peters Internal Medicine in East Greenwich, RI, and serves on a number of boards and committees focusing on health care governance and transformation. As a lifelong, avid off-road motorcyclist, he was recently appointed to the International Medical Panel of the Federation Internationale de Motcyclisme (FIM) at its Annual Congress in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Dr. Brennan is one of four U.S. representatives to the organization and the sole U.S. physician on the medical panel.