GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Community Health Programs (CHP) has named John W. Brazill, D.M.D. as director of dental medicine.

 

Brazill will oversee CHP's dental practices in North Adams, Pittsfield and Great Barrington. He will also see patients at the North Adams practice.

 

A dentist for more than 30 years, mostly in the Berkshire County area, Brazill owned and managed his own practice in Pittsfield for 18 years. More recently he has worked at practices in Pittsfield, Vermont and Williamstown.

 

He is a graduate of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and he earned his bachelor's degree in biology at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. He completed his general practice dental residency at Berkshire Medical Center.

 

In addition to general dentistry, Brazill has expertise in restorative dentistry, fixed and removable prosthetics and implant prosthetics. 

 

As a volunteer, he has worked with the Flying Samaritans, providing dentistry care in Mexico.

 

He holds dental licenses in Massachusetts and Vermont, and lives in Pownal, Vt.