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District 850 Family Event
A huge thank you to Diana O’Bryant and Hancock Whitney for sponsoring the Capital Medical Society’s first in-person family event in over a year. Over 80 happy guests attended the District 850 event on July 17, and played arcade games, bowled, entered the Escape Room, and took the Ropes Course Challenge! Some adults just huddled up in the restaurant while their teenagers played. We are all so excited to be back together! Stay tuned for upcoming Catch My Stride events. Thank you to Drs. Sarah Ko and Paresh Patel for co-hosting the event. Well done!
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CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY 2021 MEETINGS CALENDAR September 14, 2021 Celebration Awards Dinner University Center Club at FSU 6:30 pm
September 21, 2021 Virtual CME (2-Hours) Panel Discussion – Updates and Debates in Cancer Screening 6:30 pm CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
BOARD OF GOVERNORS Rohan Joseph, M.D., President
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Catch My Stride Activities................................ 1 Professional Notes............................................. 3 Florida Medical License Update..................... 6 CMS Lunchtime Learning Seminars............... 7 Celebration Awards Dinner............................. 8 Medical/Legal..................................................... 9 Reflections from the Editor........................... 10 Simpler Times.....................................................11 Donate to the CMS Foundation.....................12
Paresh Patel, M.D., President-Elect
CMS Foundation: We Care Network............14
Sarah Ko, M.D., Secretary/Treasurer Ken Whithaus, M.D., Immediate Past President Nicole Balmer, M.D. David Burns, M.D.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Russell Cole, M.D.
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Amulya Konda, M.D. Helen Paulson, M.D. Shawn Ramsey, D.O. Andrea Stephens, CMS Alliance Cody VanLandingham, M.D. Julia Weeks, M.D. Graham Whitaker, M.D. Pam Irwin, Executive Director, CMS
PUBLICATION EDITOR Frank Skilling, M.D.
MANAGING EDITOR Shannon Boyle
GRAPHIC DESIGN Gandy Printers
EDITOR EMERITUS Charles E. Moore, M.D.
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PROFESSIONAL NOTES
PROFESSIONAL NOTES Dr. Steve Currieo was presented the Teacher of the Year Award by the Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program on June 24, 2021. This is Dr. Currieo’s second time receiving this award. This award is in recognition of Dr. Currieo’s dynamic and dedicated voluntary teaching.
Dr. Rohan Joseph received the 2020-2021 Excellence Award from the FSU College of Medicine General Surgery Residency Program at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
In July 2021, Dr. Charles Williams was honored at the state meeting of the Florida Radiological Society at the Ritz Carlton-Orlando. The Florida Radiological Society established the Charles D. Williams, M.D. Legacy Lecture to attract national speakers to society meetings. Dr. Williams also spoke at the event.
CMS Members: If you receive accolades, please let us know, so we can include you in this section! Email the details to Shannon Boyle at sboyle@capmed.org.
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October 19, 2021 CME (2-Hours) Prevention of Medical Errors 6:30 pm Location TBA
December 2, 2021 CMS Foundation Holiday Auction 6:00 pm University Center Club at FSU
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FLORIDA MEDICAL LICENSE UPDATE
CMS MEMBERS: ARE YOU RETIRING? If you are planning to retire, please be sure to contact Rosalie Carlin at the Capital Medical Society office - (850) 877-9018 or rcarlin@capmed.org. As a Retired CMS Member, your membership dues change to: Retired - $150.00 with meals (includes dinner at CME meetings) or Retired - $50.00 without meals (you are billed for dinner if you attend a CME meeting). It is your choice. Do you plan to change the status of your Florida Medical License to Retired? Visit this link: https://flboardofmedicine.gov/help-center/how-doi-change-the-status-of-my-license-to-retired/, or search online for: Florida Board of Medicine How do I change the status of my license to retired? You must formally request Retired status with the Board of Medicine (BOM) for your medical licensure and pay a fee rather than just not renewing. The penalty for being late in requesting a Retired status change with the BOM can be $515.00. Remember to let CMS know of your change in status.
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CMS LUNCHTIME LEARNING SEMINARS
CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY LUNCHTIME LEARNING SEMINARS SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FALL 2021 LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINARS:
September 15, 2021 – Virtual Ransomware Prevention and Response All it takes is one person clicking on a link, and all of your shared files could be locked up for good. Organizations of all kinds— from financial institutions to law firms to manufacturers— are held hostage by ransomware, the malicious software that encrypts your data until you pay a hefty fee. Today's criminals also threaten to publish or sell your information if you don't meet their demands. How can you reduce your risk of a ransomware incident, and how should you respond if you fall victim? Tune in to hear simple steps you can take to reduce the risk of ransomware attacks and respond effectively. Topic is best suited for a general, technical or executive audience. Speakers: LMG Security Time: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Place: Virtual Cost: No cost for this virtual seminar October 20, 2021 – In-person at Capital Health Plan Communicating with Confidence Delivering an important message can be a difficult skill to master. Learn to communicate your message and how best to manage conflict and change successfully. Speaker: TBA Sponsor: Secure Records Solutions Time: 12 Noon to 1:30 PM (Seminar starts at 12:30 PM) Place: CHP Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1491 Governor’s Square Blvd. Cost: $10 per person (Lunch Provided)
November 17, 2021 – In-person at Capital Health Plan Good Evaluation Practices Retaining and supporting employees can be among the most difficult and time-consuming duties of any supervisor. Learn techniques to improve evaluation of work performance and to ensure compliance with work standards. Speaker: Bert Mitchell Sponsor: FMI Printing & Distribution Time: 12 Noon to 1:30 PM (Seminar starts at 12:30 PM) Place: CHP Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1491 Governor’s Square Blvd. Cost: $10 per person (Lunch Provided)
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Rosalie Carlin at (850) 877-9018 or rcarlin@capmed.org.
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Sadly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we could not celebrate our 2020 Celebration Awards Dinner honorees, Dr. Sergio Ginaldi and Dr. David Saint in March 2020. The Capital Medical Society’s Celebration Awards Dinner is now scheduled on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. at the University Center Club at Florida State University. We will honor Dr. Sergio Ginaldi, 2020 I.B. Harrison, M.D. Humanitarian Award recipient, and Dr. David Saint, 2020 Outstanding Physician Award recipient.
Sergio Ginaldi, M.D.
David Saint, M.D.
Celebrate the profession of medicine with your colleagues! Invitations will be sent in August. We hope to see you there!
WELCOME John D. Dortch, MD General Surgery
Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL Residency: Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Jacksonville, FL Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Board Certified: General Surgery
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House Bill 831 (2019), Electronic Prescribing, was signed into law by Governor DeSantis. The effective date is January 1, 2020. The bill provides important new requirements for prescribers to generate and transmit all prescriptions electronically upon licensure renewal or by July 1, 2021, whichever is earlier.
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For more information, visit https://flboardofmedicine.gov/ latest-news/electronic-prescribing-requirements/.
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REFLECTIONS FROM THE EDITOR
BERMUDA SHORTS AND SURGERY By Frank Skilling, M.D. My father, who had to work to pay his way through college, was insistent that his own children didn’t work while they were attending college. However, the three of us were expected to work every summer and Christmas vacation. During my first summer home from Spring Hill College in 1965, I worked at what was then the main Sears and Roebuck store on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. I was hired as a salesclerk at $1.50 an hour (the minimum wage then was $1.25 per hour) and assigned to the boys clothing department. My first boss there was a Tennessean named Don Little who was about forty and had twenty years with Sears. He was a doggedly hard worker and explained to me the ins and outs of being a salesman. Bermuda shorts, which were extremely popular in South Florida, had to be stacked the same way every time: folded into halves with the left front pocket on the top. This was mandated so that the size and price label, which was attached to the belt line, could be seen immediately. So, in my mind, for over 55 years, all shorts should be folded and stacked this way. Now that I’m retired, I’m in charge of storing my own shorts once they have been washed. My wife tends to fold shorts differently, essentially whichever way they come out of the dryer. I always re-fold them myself with the left front pocket facing up. Now, you may ask, what does clothing have to do with the practice of medicine? It’s because learning surgery, especially, is like folding clothes: it’s instilling manual habits that must become second nature to the surgeon. (Some detractors call this “muscle memory,” but I don’t think that’s a fair assessment of memory or muscles.) I was fortunate to attend the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Medicine when John Kirklin, M.D. was chairman of the department of surgery. Kirklin was a world-famous heart surgeon who had essentially “written the book” on surgical correction of congenital heart disease. During my senior year at UAB, 50 years ago, I took an elective on Kirklin’s cardio-vascular surgery service. The duties of a fourth-year medical student on his service were few, mostly assisting in the transport of patients and preparations in the operating room. However, I was allowed to “scrub in” on any case he was doing. While I had no responsibilities once the procedure 10 CAP SCAN - A CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION
was started, I had an up-close view of everything that was going on. Kirklin was a noted teacher, and he had a set of dictums that had to be adhered to by every surgeon who trained under him. Among them: never rush; never pick up an instrument unless you’re going to use it; never make a motion unless there’s a purpose; always be kind to surgical tissue; if you get to a point and forget what you’re doing or run into an unusual situation, stop, step back from the table and consider what your next step should be. This was drilled over and over into the residents who worked with him, and he demanded it even of surgeons who had many years’ experience. I obviously never became a heart surgeon, nor did I see him again after being on his service. But for the rest of my surgical career, I could hear his voice sometimes when I was operating, especially when I hit an unexpected complication during an eye operation. The novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor’s letters were published in a posthumous collection entitled, The Habit of Being. In them, she discusses the motivations and habits that she developed to become a creative writer. Her works are still read and taught today, many years after her death at age 39 in 1964. As with many great authors, it’s the habits of writing every day that are so important to producing the works that they desire. Learning surgery, and surgeons should always be learning, is similar. All surgeons are egotists; they must be. They must be convinced that what they’re doing is so important that the human they’re working on will be better for having had a surgical encounter with them than if they didn’t have it. Yet, I have watched surgeons who I know could never satisfy the Kirklin Dictums, especially the one about always making purposeful movements. Some surgeons handle the tissue too much, or they’re too cavalier with their motions, or they use the wrong instrument or use it at the wrong time. Surgery is a demanding and unyielding art that most of us can’t do, and few can become experts at. So how does this apply to shorts in my drawer? It’s because for me there is only one way to fold Bermuda shorts: creased, in half, and with the left pocket facing up. Like surgery, folding clothes is a habit that has become so ingrained that I reproduce the movements time after time.
SIMPLER TIMES
GRANDMA, QUILTS, AND MEMORIES By Charles D. Williams, M.D., FACR, FAAP (“Pedro”) Pedro had been up at Moultrie visiting Millard when he took it on himself to stop by and seta-spell with Willard’s daughter, Judy. He hadn’t seen her in a coon’s age. Upon arrival Judy said she had picked up a quilt from over at Uncle Dillard’s and Aunt Annie Mae’s that Grandma had made for Pedro before she died. When Pedro saw that quilt that Grandma had made specially for him, it brought a lump in his throat and it put him to thinking. He remembered as a child that Mama would put a quilt on the floor for us kids for afternoon naps. Mama would also put a quilt down for a pallet in the front room when kin folks and friends came to spend the night. Nobody was turned away as long as Mama had a quilt and a floor. That’s what quilts and floors were for. When Pedro saw that quilt and all those tiny pieces of cloth that had been sewed into a pattern, he knew how hard and how long and how much love she had put into it. She had spent hundreds of hours of work putting together a thang of beauty. Grandma had saved all scraps from makin’ dresses and shirts and she had saved up all flour sacks and Guano sacks. Each piece could even have its own special memory. One piece of scrap could have been from a special Sundy-go-to-meetin’ dress or another patch could have been left over from a family reunion outfit. Pedro knew that this quilt would be passed along to each generation and he suspected Grandma knew that too and that each generation would have remembrance. When Pedro thought of Grandma, he thought of the love she showed and gave to her family, to her friends and to Pedro. He thought of her wit and her humor. It was these qualities that brought her family closer together and helped them to overcome tragedy and hard times. He
remembered one time on a windy day in March in Colquitt County, someone had asked Grandma if the wind blowed this way all the time. Grandma studied on it and replied, “No. Sometimes it blows the other way.” Pedro continued thankin’ and remembered Grandma’s wit and wisdom and she said that we should not cut down the tree that gives us shade and that we should not be all vine and no taters. Most likely what she meant was don’t be all talk and no action. Through Grandma Pedro learned not to go back on his raisin’. He learned of love and loss and how fleeting were the moments of our lives. He learned that the most precious thangs were the most simplest thangs and it was the simplest thangs that formed permanent pictures in our memories. Robert Browning once said that, “If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.” That’s what Grandma gave and that was what the quilt reminded me of and it was mine to keep. We cannot turn back the pages of time and time won’t stand still, but Pedro has his quilt, his memories of Simpler Times, and his memories of Grandma and “memories are our treasures here on earth.” Through telling these stories, it is hoped that Pedro leaves a glimpse of Simpler Times for others to remember and to enjoy and maybe trigger a special feeling, a special moment, and a special time in one’s own Simpler Times. Reprinted with author permission from More Simpler Times. Dr. Williams’ sequel book, More Simpler Times, can be purchased from the Capital Medical Society. All proceeds from the book are donated to the Capital Medical Society Foundation’s We Care Network program. The total sales from his books have raised over $39,000 for the CMS Foundation’s We Care Network.
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DONATE TO THE CMS FOUNDATION
Donate to the CMS Foundation – We Thank Our Donors We thank the following donors who made a gift to the CMS Foundation this past month: Capital Medical Society Foundation – included with their annual dues payment Rick Damron, M.D. Shakra Junejo, M.D. Joel H. Kramer, M.D. Nola A. Munasifi, M.D. Margaret Havens Neal, M.D. Francis C. Skilling, Jr., M.D. Physician Wellness Fund Pam Irwin – In Honor of Faisal Munasifi, M.D. Scholarship Fund David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Naomi Harper Buchan We Care Network United Way of the Big Bend for Gadsden County United Way of the Big Bend for Jefferson County United Way of the Big Bend for Leon County United Way of the Big Bend for Wakulla County
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DONATE TO THE CMS FOUNDATION
The Impact of Private Support: The Capital Medical Society Foundation’s community of donors strategically help fulfill its mission “to support the charitable efforts of physicians and others, increase access to healthcare, promote education and serve the community’s health needs through innovative projects that are exemplary, affordable and dignified.” ➢ Access to healthcare is increased through gifts to the We Care Network and the We Care Network Endowment Fund. More than $120.9 million in donated specialty medical and dental care has been provided to low-income, uninsured patients since the program was created in 1992. In fiscal year 2020-21, which ended June 30, 2021, more than $8.6 million in health care was donated. Gifts support the operational expenses of the program including salaries and benefits of the case management team who coordinate the donated care. ➢ To provide incentives to keep medical students trained at the FSU College of Medicine in the Big Bend after completion of their residencies and help meet the growing demand for physicians in Florida, gifts to the Scholarship Fund provide scholarships to FSU College of Medicine students who have expressed an interest in returning to the Big Bend to practice after completion of their residencies. $31,000 was awarded in 2020. ➢ Gifts to the Capital Medical Society Foundation help provide operational resources for the Capital Medical Society Foundation. In addition, modest grants are awarded to area non-profits whose programs improve access to healthcare for the underserved. In 2021, the CMSF awarded a total of $15,000 in grants to Elder Care Services for their In-Home Services Program, the Big Bend Hospice Foundation for bereavement services, and to Lighthouse of the Big Bend for aids for the visually-impaired. Gifts to Honor and In Memoriam: You can make a gift to the CMS Foundation in memory of someone who has passed away or in honor of someone, such as a fellow physician, you hold in high esteem or has taken care of you or your family. The CMS Foundation will send an acknowledgement letter to those you memorialize and honor. How to Give: Through the generosity of donors, funds have been created in order to establish financial stability to meet our mission. You can make a gift at any time to one of the CMS Foundation’s current funds: 1) Capital Medical Society Foundation-area of greatest need 2) The Capital Medical Society Foundation Endowment 3) We Care Network 4) We Care Network Endowment 5) The Anesthesiology Associates of Tallahassee Scholarship Endowment 6) Scholarship Fund 7) The Ronald G. Pickett Endowment 8) Physician Wellness Fund Gifts should be made payable to the CMS Foundation and indicate on the memo line of your check to which designation you would like to give. Bring your check to the CMS Office or mail it: Capital Medical Society Foundation ~ 1204 Miccosukee Road ~ Tallahassee, FL 32308. Gifts may be made by credit card or direct debit from the CMS website. If you would like to discuss a gift of appreciated securities, an insurance policy, designation of retirement plan assets, estate gift, or multi-year pledge, please contact: Pam Irwin Executive Director pirwin@capmed.org or (850) 877-9018 or after hours at (850) 559-8611 CAP SCAN - A CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION
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THANK YOU To our CMS members and We Care Network partners who provided healthcare to new patients in June 2021. Your generosity and support of the We Care Network makes a difference.
Physicians Christopher Babl, M.D. Dhanajay Bendre, M.D. Viralkumar Bhanderi, M.D. Tim Broeseker, M.D. David Burday, M.D. David Burns, M.D. Carlos Campo, M.D. Joseph Camps, M.D. Francisco Carpio, M.D. Stephen Carr, M.D. Bria Casperson, M.D. Gilbert Chandler, M.D. Alan Chen, M.D. Armand Cognetta Jr., M.D. William Dixon IV, M.D. David Dolson, M.D. Chesley Durgin, M.D. Mark Fahey, M.D. Gian-Carlo Giove, M.D. Frank Gredler, M.D. W. Harris Green, M.D. Muhanad Hasan, M.D. Todd Hewitt, M.D. Brett Howard, M.D. Marc Inglese, M.D. Okanta Jackson, M.D. Barbara Jaeger, M.D. Amit Jain, M.D. Beverly Johnson, M.D. Arjun Kaji, M.D. Farhat Khairallah, M.D. James Killius, M.D. Carey Linker, M.D. Maribel U. Lockwood, M.D. Robert Lott, M.D. Kurt Luhmann, M.D. Meredith McKinney, M.D. Tod Morris, M.D. Manoela Mota, M.D. Jayan Nair, M.D. Charles Newell, M.D. Mitchell Peabody, D.O. Michael Pentaleri, M.D. Jorge Perez de Armas, M.D. Allison Retzer, M.D.
Stephen Richardson, M.D. Davis Rierson, M.D. Adrian Roberts, M.D. Garrison Rolle, M.D. Tim Ruark, M.D. Andras Schaffer, M.D. David Smith, M.D. Jon Soble, M.D. Bhavik Soni, M.D. Lucas Stowers, M.D. Cristian Del Carpio Tenorio, M.D. John Thabes, M.D. Beatriz Cepeda Valery, M.D. David Vermess, M.D. Robert Watson, M.D. Tony Weaver, M.D. Chien-Yi Williams, M.D. William Yaakob, M.D. Daniel Yang, M.D. Charles Yowell, M.D. Samuel Yu, M.D. Dentists Laban Bontrager, D.M.D. Walter Colón, D.M.D. John Dozier, D.M.D. William McFatter, D.D.S. Facilities Advanced Urology Institute Airway Works, LLC Anesthesiology Associates Apalachee Primary Care Beachton Denture Clinic BioTelemetry, Inc. Bristol Dental Clinic Bond Community Health Center Care Point Health & Wellness Center CESC Dental Clinic Dermatology Associates Digestive Disease Clinic Eye Associates of Tallahassee Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute FSU PrimaryHealth Gadsden County Health Department Jessie Furlow Medical Center Ketchum, Wood, & Burgert Pathology Associates Madison Medical Center Neighborhood Medical Center North Florida Women’s Care North Monroe Medical Center Periodontal Associates of North Florida Radiology Associates of Tallahassee Southern Medical Group, P.A. Southern Vitreoretinal Associates Tallahassee Diagnostic Imaging
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Tallahassee Ear, Nose, and Throat Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare TMH Physician Partners Cancer and Hematology TMH Physician Partners Cardiology and Internal Medicine TMH Physician Partners Cardiothoracic Surgery Specialists TMH Physician Partners Gynecologic Oncology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Specialists TMH Physician Partners Radiation Oncology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Heart Rhythm Clinic TMH Physician Partners Surgical Specialists TMH Physician Partners Urology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Quincy TMH Transition Center Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic TOC Canopy Tallahassee VA Clinic Vascular Surgery Associates Wakulla County Health Department Wakulla Medical Center Womens Clinic Women’s Imaging Center
Please contact Diana Bixler at dbixler@capmed.org or 201-0130 if you are a We Care Network volunteer and you provided volunteer specialty care in the month of June 2021, and your name is omitted.
The We Care Network strongly encourages our volunteer physicians and dentists to send their value of donated services to us. The value of donated services is important for us to share with our funders and the community. In addition, up to five hours, per biennium, of CE credit may be fulfilled by performing pro bono medical and dental services to We Care Network patients, if we have received documentation of value of services. You can send your value of donated services via fax to Diana Bixler at (850) 2010085 or mail to 1204 Miccosukee Road, Tallahassee, FL, 32308. Thank you!
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We thank our referring providers from June 2021:
Allison Akridge, D.O.
W. Harris Green, M.D.
Tim Ruark, M.D.
Ebonie Allen, APRN
Judy Griffin, APRN
Lucilita Salvador, P.A.
Anne Ananga, APRN
Hantz Hercule, M.D.
Jamey Sarvis, M.D.
Karen Bartley, M.D.
Todd Hewitt, M.D.
Kellie Serrato, APRN
Megan Bassett, APRN
Shermeeka Hogans-
Benjamin Shivar, P.A.
Cosette Bell, APRN
Eliot Sieloff, M.D.
Dhanajay Bendre, M.D.
Brett Howard, M.D.
Alanna Steaple, APRN
Kendra Brady, APRN
Beverly Johnson, M.D.
Amanda Stephens, D.O.
Sherry Bramblett, APRN
Elaine Larkins, APRN
William Thompson, M.D.
Daniel Breivogel, APRN
Jessica Lea, APRN
Faye Tinson, APRN
Francisco Carpio, M.D.
Megan March, M.D.
Gregory Todd, M.D.
Stephanie Chandler, APRN
Damon McMillan, M.D.
Nadege Toussaint, APRN
Victor Chou, D.M.D.
Kelley Miller, APRN
Marianne Towler, APRN
Melba Colon-Renta, M.D.
Marcia Morris, APRN
Teresa Tullos, APRN
Deborah Congdon, APRN
Manoela Mota, M.D.
Alexander Ramirez
William Dixon IV, M.D.
Chukwuma Okoroji, M.D.
Wade Douglas, M.D.
Rose Origa, APRN
Beatriz Cepeda Valery, M.D.
John Dozier, D.M.D.
Mitchell Peabody, D.O.
Ramona Vossler, RDH
Marlisha Edwards, M.D.
Jorge Perez de Armas, M.D.
Dwanna Ward-Boahen, APRN
Amara Emenike, M.D.
Lisa Perkins, APRN
Lakeshia Washington, APRN
Cynthia Evans, APRN
Stephen Quintero, M.D.
Jeffrey Wasserman, D.O.
Sharron Foster, M.D.
Brandi Richardson, APRN
Shana Wood, APRN
Dale French, D.O.
Charlie Richardson, M.D.
Charles Yowell, M.D.
Gabrielle Gardner, APRN
Carla Robertson, APRN
Gian-Carlo Giove, M.D.
Nakeisha Rodgers, M.D.
Mathews, M.D.
Valderrama, M.D.
DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2021, THE WE CARE NETWORK: RECEIVED 250 REFERRALS, WITH 144 PATIENTS NEW TO THE PROGRAM
SCHEDULED 124 APPOINTMENTS WITH VOLUNTEER PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS
$566,153.17 IN DONATED CARE WAS REPORTED BY WE CARE VOLUNTEERS
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