Our Physicians

Joan E. Baumer, MD, FAAFP, is the President of MassTex Imaging, LLC. She has 32 years experience in medicine, as she graduated in 1978 from Davis University in California and has completed both residency and fellowship in Family Medicine. Her career has expanded to not only direct patient care, but chairing departments, supervising other physicians, and developing programs to better serve her patients. She a family medicine physician and has developed the skills and knowledge to work alongside the speech language pathologist to improve patient care around dysphagia management. Dr. Baumer is one of the founding members of MassTex Imaging, LLC and is also a member and president of DiagnosTEX and Professional Imaging, LLC in Texas. Separate from Dr. Baumer’s duties as president and direct patient care, she runs and chairs the Family Medicine Department at John Peter Smith Hospital in Texas. Dr. Baumer truly understands the necessity of not only providing a Modified Barium Swallow Study to determine safe swallow strategies, but the importance of looking at the whole patient separate from the MBSS. This is why MassTex Imaging is more than just a MBSS mobile practice, but a medical practice that focuses on Dysphagia consultation including MBSS, and provides both initial consultations to patients as well as continuity of care.

James A. Cheverie, MD joined MassTex Imaging in August, 2008 as Medical Director. He has conducted nearly 7,000 Modified Barium Swallowing Studies since 2001. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Connecticut Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Cheverie is Board Certified in Family Medicine and holds medical licenses in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneticut, and New Hampshire. In addition to his duties as Medical Director, he is also the company's Radiation Safety Officer, and is in charge of Quality Assurance and Infection Control.

Jerold Lamhut, MD has been a member of the MassTex Imaging team since 2006. A graduate of the University of Brussels, Dr. Lamhut completed his internship and year residency with the Boston University Surgical Residency Program before entering private practice. As a licensed physician in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire, Dr. Lamhut has been practicing medicine since 1983 and performed over 3,000 MBSS.

Stephen Brand, MD, PhD graduated in Medicine from University of Western Australia and also holds a PhD in Physiology. Subsequently, he was a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen Denmark and Fellow in Endocrinology & Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. For ten years, Dr Brand was on the faculty in the Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital achieving the rank of Clinical Associate in Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was an internationally recognized leader in gastroenterology research and was elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation. He has published over 75 papers in leading journals. He then pursued a successful career in the Bio Pharmaceutical Industry as a research director at Proscript, Tanabe Research Laboratory, and Waratah Pharmaceuticals leading the discovery and development of novel drugs, for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory diseases and diabetes, which are now in the clinic. Since 2006, Dr Brand has specialized as physician in diagnostic radiology to diagnose disorders of swallowing and esophageal function