WESTWOOD, Mass. – Pierre E. Provost IV, M.D., of Westwood, Massachusetts, died suddenly at home on Tuesday June 2. He leaves his beloved wife of 48 years, Lura McCready Swift Provost and three sons, Pierre E. Provost V of Vancouver, Wash., N. Thomas Provost of Westwood, Mass., Paul R. Provost of New York, N.Y., their families and partners.

Born in 1937 in Boston, Mass., he was the son of Pierre E. Provost III, MD, and Helen Curtis Provost, MD. He attended Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine, and graduated from Cornell University in 1960. After receiving his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, class of 1964, he practiced otolaryngology at the Lahey Clinic in Boston and in 1975 joined ENT Specialists Inc. in Dedham and Brockton, practicing otolaryngology and head and neck surgery. He retired in 1999.

Dedicated to medical education, he served as Assistant clinical professor of otolaryngology at Boston University School of Medicine from 1973 until 1999.

His military appointments included serving as Director of the Rosebud Indian Health Hospital on the Sioux Indian reservation in the Division of Indian Health in Rosebud, S.D. from 1966 until 1968 and serving as attending physician for the U.S. Coast Guard.

He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery. He was also elected to the Boston Surgical Society.

He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, and he served as chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Medico-Legal Investigation from 1985-1990. He also served as the medical examiner for Norfolk County.

He was a longstanding member of the Dedham Country and Polo Club and the Norfolk Trout Club.

A man of many interests and pursuits, Pierre Provost had great love for his family and the out-of-doors, and he was deeply committed to the environment.