Cap Scan - August 2023

CALLING FOR AUCTION ITEM DONATIONS!

The Capital Medical Society Foundation

Holiday Auction will be held on Friday, December 8, 2023. We want to make it bigger and better than ever, so we need donated items!

All items, large or small, are needed. Do you have any of the items on our wish list or know someone you can ask to donate them?

• Week/Weekend at Vacation Homes

• Hunting Trips or Fishing Trips

• Hunting or Fishing Gear

• Sports Memorabilia

• Children’s Toys

• Games

• Home Décor

• Jewelry

• Paintings/Art

• Fine Wine & Spirits

• Pet Items

• Holiday Items

The deadline to receive items is November 17.

If you have any questions or would like to donate an item, please call the CMS office at (850) 877-9018.

Holiday Auction invitations will be mailed in November!

Week/Weekend at Vacation Homes

Jewelry

Fine Wine & Spirits

MISSION: TO PROMOTE THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE FOR THE ULTIMATE BENEFIT OF THE PATIENT. (850) 877-9018 Fax: (850) 878-0218 www.capmed.org

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Sarah Ko, M.D., PhD, President

Helen Paulson, M.D., President-Elect

Russell Cole, M.D., Secretary/Treasurer

Paresh Patel, M.D., Immediate Past President

Danny Estupiñán, M.D.

Amulya Konda, M.D.

John Meade, M.D.

Jonathan Nava, M.D.

Niraj Pandit, M.D.

Kaushal Patel, M.D.

Heather Redfield, CMS Alliance President

Cielo Rose, D.O.

Brence Sell, M.D.

Kiana Taba, M.D.

Pam Irwin, Executive Director, CMS

PUBLICATION

EDITOR

Frank Skilling, M.D.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Lauren Trudgeon

MANAGING EDITOR

Shannon Boyle

EDITOR EMERITUS

Charles E. Moore, M.D.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN WRITING AN ARTICLE FOR CAP SCAN?

Please contact Shannon Boyle at sboyle@capmed.org. All articles submitted will be reviewed by your peers prior to publishing.

CMS Non-Endorsement Statement

The editors welcome contributions from members. Opinions expressed in the Cap Scan are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect policies or opinions of the Capital Medical Society or Capital Medical Society’s endorsement.

Cap Scan is published during the first week of each month and is the official publication of the Capital Medical Society. Advertising in Cap Scan does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by the Capital Medical Society nor necessarily imply the accuracy or reliability of any advertisement displayed in this publication.

David A. Burns, M.D. - 1 st

Oliver A. Reyes, D.O. - 1 st

Cielo Z. Rose, D.O. - 1 st

Michael Douso, M.D. - 2nd

Sangeeta Nair-Collins, M.D. - 2nd

Mina Salah Mousa, M.D. - 3 rd

Marino A. Martinez, M.D. - 4th

Ronald D. Ray, M.D. - 4th

Stacia Groll, M.D. - 5th

Vamsi Ponnaganti, M.D. - 5th

William Paul Sawyer, M.D. - 5th

David Shapiro, M.D. - 5th

Candace Elise Gonzalez, M.D. - 6th

Alfredo Nova, M.D. - 6th

John F. Palmer, M.D. - 6th

Bob Soni, M.D. - 6th

Emily Ashmore, M.D. - 7th

T.Adam Oliver, M.D. - 7th

Adekunle Omotayo, M.D. - 7th

John L. Williams, Jr., M.D. - 7th

T. Dean Dalrymple, M.D. - 8 th

Lisa Flannagan, M.D. - 8 th

Stanley Gwock, M.D. - 8 th

David Pascoe, M.D. - 8 th

Simon J. Lopez, M.D. - 9 th

Marc Inglese, M.D. - 11th

Christopher Ryan Murphy, D.O. - 11th

Amy Harrison, M.D. - 12 th

Alice Pomidor, M.D. - 13th

SchMiyah Smith, M.D. - 13th

David E. Craig, M.D. - 15th

Gadi Silberman, M.D. - 17th

Eric Bouchard, M.D. - 18 th

Joshua Fuhrmeister, M.D. - 18 th

Terence N. Reisman, M.D. - 18 th

Peyton Lloyd, M.D. - 19 th

Rachel Vanderby, M.D. - 19 th

Marie O. Becker, M.D. - 20 th

William L. Morse, M.D. - 20 th

Frank C. Walker, M.D. - 20 th

Jiali Duan, D.O. - 22nd

Michael W. Forsthoefel, M.D. - 22nd

Shayla Gray, M.D. - 22nd

Russell Eggert, M.D. - 23 rd

Krishna Brown, M.D. - 25th

Tracy Graham, M.D. - 25th

P.S. Krishnamurthy, M.D. - 25th

Paul McFarlane, M.D. - 25th

Thandi Walters, M.D. - 25th

Susan Drake, M.D. - 26th

James R. Thomas, M.D. - 26th

Charles W. Yowell, M.D. - 26th

Jeffrey T. Ferraro, M.D. - 27th

Manoela Mota, M.D. - 27th

Alex Ho, M.D. - 28 th

Stan Whitney, M.D. - 28 th

Camille Blake, D.O. - 29 th

Rick A. Damron, M.D. - 29 th

Alexander Erbella, M.D. - 29 th

Gregory Hartlage, M.D. - 30 th

WE ARE SO GLAD YOU WERE BORN!

NEW DOCS ON THE BLOCK

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE

Hudson Milad Ash-Rafzadeh, M.D., USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, 2023

Katherine Alexis Chandler, M.D., Mercer University, 2023

Patrick M. Thomas, M.D., Marshall University, 2023

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE

Mahesh Bhattarai, M.D., Manipal College of Medical Sciences, 2003

David Bryant, D.O., Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2018

Sachin Joseph, M.D., Armed Forces Medical College, 2020

Dominika Moscicka, M.D., Wroclaw Medical University, 2020

TALLAHASSEE

MEMORIAL FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Trinity Belgrave, M.D., University of the West Indies, 2014

Del Carter, M.D., University of Florida, 2023

Dajour Collins, M.D., University of the West Indies, 2014

Kevonne Kamoy O'Brien Dawson, M.D., University of the West Indies, 2023

Drake Donaldson, D.O., Liberty University, 2023

Duncan Lea Jackson, M.D., University of the West Indies, 2017

Nicole Larissa Mignott-Dawson, M.D., University of the West Indies, 2023

Daphne St. Juste, D.O., Ross University, 2022

CMS WELCOMES INCOMING RESIDENTS

Dr. Russell Cole, CMS Secretary/Treasurer, and Pam Irwin, CMS Executive Director, hosted an orientation luncheon for new Family Medicine and Internal Medicine

Residents on June 14, 2023 at the Tallahassee Memorial Family Residency Program. Dr. Cole and Pam shared the importance of becoming involved in organized medicine at the local level. They encouraged the new residents to join CMS and to grow their understanding of legislation impacting the

practice of medicine, to attend CMS events, CMEs, and social activities to grow their understanding of the local medical community, the practice of medicine, and to build friendships. Please make them feel welcomed!

Please tell the advertiser you saw their ad in the Cap Scan magazine!

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINARS

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE REMAINING 2023 LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINARS!

September 20, 2023

HIPAA Regulatory and Enforcement Update

Presenters: Shannon Hartsfield, Mia McKown, and Eddie Williams, Holland & Knight

October 18, 2023

HR Workshop: Creating a Culture of Engagement and Respect

Presenter: Kelly Green, SHRM-SCP, HR Consultant, James Moore & Co., CPAs

Sponsor: CAMPUS USA Credit Union

Time: 12 Noon to 1:30 PM

(Seminar starts at 12:30 PM)

Place: CHP Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1491 Governors Square Blvd.

Cost: $11 per person, per seminar

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Rosalie Carlin at (850) 877-9018 or rcarlin@capmed.org.

Seminars will be held at the Capital Health Plan on Governors Square Blvd. –and we thank CHP for providing this venue.

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY 2023 MEETINGS CALENDAR CONTINUED FROM COVER

October 17, 2023

CMS Membership & CME Meeting Prevention of Medical Errors (2-Hour CME)

E. Victoria "Tori" Penny, Esq. and Julia Weeks, M.D.

6:00 pm

Maguire Center for Lifelong Learning at Westminster Oaks

December 8, 2023 *NEW DATE* CMS Foundation Holiday Auction

6:00 pm

Dunlap Champions Club at FSU

THE BUSINESS SIDE OF MEDICINE: HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE – 2023 ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES

Information provided by Ben Mirza and Mirza Healthcare Law Partners

The following virtual seminars are held on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm.

August 15

“So, I Signed a Non-Compete, Now What?”

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZUtdOipqzwqHtSpvDmBM_XmSZlFS5C20qIz

September 19

How to Minimize the Risk of Malpractice Lawsuits

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZcqd-6srDkiH9Iu9zHAxsfTWnRZ8hlNZwWU

October 17

How Experienced Physicians Protect their Assets

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZEtd-itrD0qGdKiTjTIuY-xesann4voCGSA

November 21

How to Handle Collection Challenges of Working With Health Plans

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZEvcemvqj0iGNS_EYr23URIRp1knKY6ATzO

December 12

Medical Marijuana Law for Physician Practices

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZwsd-GorT4oH9QthmrfIbCkRt9Kx5vnZhst

TEACH YOUR PATIENTS THE DANGERS OF GAS STOVES

Gas stoves are a health risk. This is true especially for children and the elderly. People who live in homes with gas stoves have more asthma, lung disease, and cardiovascular disease. This month, the Society’s My Green Doctor provides a short article (visit https:// mygreendoctor.org/learn-the-health-risks-ofgas-stoves/ or scan the QR) on this vital topic (reading time: 5 mins).

My Green Doctor is a free money-saving membership benefit from the Capital Medical Society. Members use the “Meeting-by-Meeting Guide” to learn how to adopt environmental sustainability, save resources, and help create healthier communities. The program adds just five minutes to each regular office staff meeting

or weekly office “huddle”, making small changes at each meeting that over time really add up.

Everyone in your practice can register as Partner Society members at www.MyGreenDoctor.org or at www. MyGreenDoctor.es (si, en Espanol). Use the discount code MGDCMS to get full free access to My Green Doctor, save $60 instantly, and save $1000s in the first year. Ask your practice manager to register today and to put My Green Doctor on your next agenda. You can do this!

ONE DEATH IN JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

By Frank Skilling, M.D.

“We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.” T.S.

Eliot

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” Soren

Kierkegaard

In the early 1960s, there was a weekly TV melodrama called “Ben Casey.” The opening credits depicted the senior surgeon, Dr. David Zorba, writing five pictographs on a blackboard while he intoned, “Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity.” It was an attempt to reduce the cycle of life to fit the contemporary theme of medicine as conceived by the writers.

I hadn’t thought about it for years, but now, over fifty years past my graduation from medical school, I recall it as a summary of an experience that has stuck with me since my early medical training.

I was an intern at Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) in Miami in 1973 when I was paged to the Emergency Department late one night to admit a patient who had been brought in by the ambulance service. I’ll call her Estelle Russell. She was a sixty-two-year-old white woman who’d been found unresponsive in her apartment in South Miami. I had no past medical history to go on. She was unaccompanied, and no relatives were listed. I immediately realized that she was severely dehydrated and in extremis with dangerously abnormal vital signs. After admitting her to one of the ancient non-air-conditioned wards at JMH, I did all the things that I had been taught to do: lab studies, urine cultures, blood

cultures, chest x-ray, abdominal x-ray, IV fluids. An initial chest film showed an opacity in one lung, so I immediately started IV antibiotics because I thought that she might have pneumonia. Over the next several hours, her vital signs continued to deteriorate, and on early morning rounds, it became clear that she was going to die. I gave her IV steroids, a vasopressor, and more antibiotics. She died about 11:00 AM, less than ten hours after admission. I was at the bedside when she died. I obtained permission for an autopsy because no clear cause of death could be ascertained.

A few weeks later, I was ordered to present her story at the weekly M & M (morbidity and mortality) conference. After my presentation, I was given a scathing evaluation by the chief of internal medicine who berated me for not finding a cause of her systemic collapse and for not saving her. He was sure that she had an occult infection that I had missed. Even though I’d given her the prescribed treatments for a comatose patient at the time, he was sure that I’d missed something. I stood at the podium without responding. As was the custom, the autopsy results were then presented to the audience. The head of anatomical pathology delivered his findings: there was no infection in the lungs and the cause of death could not be determined. Her demise remained a mystery. With this conclusion, I felt justified in my care for Estelle Russell, but I was humiliated, nonetheless.

Now that I’ve passed the age when Estelle died, I more intently recognize that the cycle of life is one that carries its meaning primarily in how we live and die in the context of others. The lonely, the abandoned, the unrecognized are swirling around us, and it’s only in the presence of our spouses, families, and loved ones that the chalkboard chain of men, women, birth, and death holds us together. Infinity, the last symbol on the TV show’s introduction, is essentially a breath or a heartbeat away. Each person’s journey is solitary without the support of our family and loved ones.

Maybe this is why Estelle Russell’s death has stood out in my memory for over 50 years. I attended many deaths as a medical student and intern, but I remember hers more for the loneliness and abandonment that she experienced than for the medical aspects of her case. I can only speculate that perhaps she was aware that I was there when she died.

This is one of the most difficult aspects of medical education: we learn how to be doctors, to practice delivering medical care, but the implications and context of our practice isn’t realized personally until much later. During our training we’re so busy cramming facts into our heads that we can’t or don’t appreciate the great gift that we’ve been given to join a healing profession. Likewise, we put into the backs of our minds that what happens to our patients will inevitably happen to us eventually. We humans, who are eternally obsessed with determining who’s in charge or who’s ahead of us, eventually find that “all who have died are equal.”

We’re now living in the age of corporate healthcare (no longer called medical practice). Physicians have become replaceable cogs in the great wheel that doles out industrial style medicine. Everyone

is a member of the “healthcare team,” but no one physician appears to be in charge. Since few patients have a designated full time primary care physician anymore, it’s a lottery who will care for them when problems arise. I certainly don’t think that “the good old days of medicine” were all that good, but at least there could be some semblance of acknowledgement or recognition in the encounters that patients had with their physicians. Ironically, hospitals are returning to their roots in medieval times when they were constructed to provide a place for people to die if they could not afford to be cared for at home. Most Americans say that they want to die at home surrounded by loved ones, but many of us will die in a hospital anyway. Estelle Russell was a harbinger of the fate that still awaits many today.

R.I.P. Estelle. I was your last human contact before infinity. I haven’t forgotten you.

NEW DEA REQUIREMENT CME AVAILABLE

The Florida Medical Association (FMA) has announced they will be providing the 8-hour, required DEA continuing education requirement through their CME portal: www.flmedical.org

Visit https://flmedical.inreachce.com/ Details/Information/1078c14c-0830-4d57a906-4f7646f3cdae?ref=featured for further information and courses. Signing in is required, membership is not required.

Course fees apply. Member $200 / Non-Member $300 for the one-time requirement.

CAN PHYSICIANS BECOME REPLACEABLE?

By Michael A. Cromer, M.D., President, Hillsborough County Medical Association

This is a question that I asked myself the other day as I was opening up an App on my iPhone to quickly obtain some medical information for a patient. It was sort of an ironic question when one thinks how esteemed the profession of medicine once stood in our society. To now wonder if we could ever be replaced by robots (artificial intelligence), Apps, or … nurse practitioners and physician assistants!

Venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee told CNBC, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be bigger than all other tech revolutions, and robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade.” A Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, “machines will substitute 80 percent of doctors in the future in a healthcare scene driven by entrepreneurs, not medical professionals.”

If one thinks that our profession, or even some of our specialties like primary care or radiology, could become a thing of the past, we must start now to guard against this from happening. What are some things we can do now to assure our existence in the future?

First of all, to show our worth we must remain highly trained. The training of physicians in this country has long been an arduous process, and so it should be. Society as a whole partly respects physicians because they know that we have received a lot of training to get where we are. We didn’t get there by cutting corners or taking the fast track. We must let people be aware that there is a lot of difference in the amount of clinical training hours received by a nurse practitioner (500), vs. a physician assistant (2,000), vs. a medical student by the end of their 4th-year (6,000), vs. a physician with three years of residency training (15,000).

After residency or fellowship, stay relevant and up-to-date. Pursue staying current with

Continuing Medical Education available to us and Maintenance of Certification required of us. These at least provide some sort of standards for society to know that their physicians have some ongoing accountability process.

As physicians gain experience the more they realize that, no two patients are exactly alike. Humans, unlike robots, can bring creativity and subjectivity into the exam room and more effectively narrow down differential diagnoses and treatment possibilities. Only we, as physicians, can apply critical thinking to best assess what the optimal treatment plan for a patient might be.

Next, we need to show compassion. Some of us have this innately in our personality; others of us have to work on it. It might be taught some in medical schools but it is rarely rewarded by corporate employers once we start working in the profession. It is, however, one of the ways that allows us to have an impact in patient’s lives and one of the main things that our patients remember us by. Apps don’t show compassion, artificial intelligence won’t either. The compassion we give our patients will set us apart and be one of the reasons our patients will want to choose us.

A cousin to compassion is empathy – having the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. An algorithm will not be able to build trust to help someone make an important decision for a loved one. A robot will not be able to walk a patient through a difficult medical crisis.

Be a leader on the healthcare team. At least in Florida, the dam was already broken when our legislators thought it was prudent to allow Nurse Practitioners to practice independently. However, there are many more settings where we physicians work as a part of a health care team that includes nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and medical assistants. A physician should always be the leader of that team. Not just in clinical

acumen, but also in our work ethic, our moral ethic, and in how we treat others on the team. Be a role model that others look up to and try to emulate.

Attempt to control your destiny. Part of this is done by carrying out the three objectives above. But it also comes up in our choice of who we work for and being careful of what kind of employment contracts we sign. At present, over 50% of physicians are employed by hospitals or healthcare corporations. There are some companies more than others that value physicians respect physician’s input. However, don’t be lulled into complacency believing that your employer will always make the decisions that are best for you or the medical profession. They will always look out for their own interests first.

Controlling your destiny also means being a part of the decision making when it comes to your profession. The latter often involves getting involved in your county medical society or specialty association. It may also include getting involved in the political arena. I encourage each of you to get involved in organized medicine before

it is too late. As the saying goes, “if you don’t have a seat at the table, you are more likely to be on the menu.”

Don’t misunderstand me, I know that more artificial intelligence will appear in healthcare in the next 10 years, many of it being helpful for physicians and improving health outcomes. As physicians, we need to speak up and get involved in how the automation happens and in what context it is best used. Due to AI, some tasks will disappear, while others will be added to the work routine. However, if we as physicians do the things we need to do now, there will be fewer opportunities where computers, either through a robot or an algorithm, will take the place of a doctor.

Reprinted with author permission from the HCMA Bulletin, Vol. 69, No. 1, Summer 2023.

YOUR DOSE OF MEDICAL HUMOR

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCESS TO BEREAVEMENT SERVICES

Pam Irwin (pictured left), Executive Director of the Capital Medical Society Foundation, presented a check for $4,000 to Dena Strickland (pictured right), President of the Big Bend Hospice Foundation on July 10, 2023. “The CMS Foundation is happy to support Big Bend Hospice Bereavement Services Program,” said Pam Irwin. We applaud Big Bend Hospice for serving the community through this program. The funding may be used to provide individual, group, and community grief counseling to youth, schools, and caregivers.

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE FOR SENIORS

Pam Irwin (pictured second from right), Executive Director of the Capital Medical Society Foundation, presented a check for $3,500 to Elder Care Services on July 19, 2023. The grant award was accepted by Elder Care Services’ Brian Marquez (pictured left), Communications and Development Coordinator; Nicole Ballas (pictured second from left), Chief Development Officer; and Jocelyne Fliger (pictured right), President and CEO. The grant award aligns with the Capital Medical Society Foundation’s mission that includes supporting efforts to increase access to health care services. Elder Care Services’ program of home-based care for seniors provides necessary services in-home, as well as, transportation to doctors and other healthcare providers. We appreciate Elder Care Services ongoing commitment to make these important services available to seniors in our community.

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCESS TO CHILD SAFETY SEATS

Capital Medical Society Foundation’s Executive Director Pam Irwin (pictured middle) presented a check for $3,000 to KidSafe of Lutheran Social Services of North Florida, Inc. on July 11, 2023. Lutheran Social Services Executive Director Dorothy Hinkle (pictured left) and Board of Directors President Barbara Ehlmann (pictured right) accepted the grant award that will help fund the KidSafe program. KidSafe provides life-saving new safety seats to economically vulnerable families who cannot afford to buy them. The funding will be used for the expansion of the safety seat program and for the development of an educational/assistance community component that will increase the efficacy of child safety seat use in Tallahassee/Leon County. The Capital Medical Society Foundation is pleased to support this child safety program.

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS THOSE WITH VISION IMPAIRMENT

On July 17, 2023, Capital Medical Society Foundation’s Executive Director Pam Irwin (pictured left) presented a check for $3,500 to Lighthouse of the Big Bend to assist in the purchase of aids for their clients with vision loss. Lighthouse of the Big Bend Chief Executive Officer Tina Torrance (pictured second from right) and Chief Development Officer Debara Jump (pictured far right) accepted the grant award. The aids improve the quality of life for the visually impaired and help them manage their health and medical care more independently. We applaud the work of the Lighthouse of the Big Bend!

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE TALLAHASSEE REGIONAL CAMPUS FOOD PANTRY!

The Capital Medical Society Foundation and the Florida State University College of Medicine Tallahassee Regional Campus thank you for helping our next generation of physicians.

Financial donations may be made by check payable to the Capital Medical Society Foundation with “FSUCOM Food Pantry” on the memo line and mailed to the CMS office, 1204 Miccosukee Road, Tallahassee, FL 32308. You may make online gifts at https:// capmed.org/donate/ with “FSUCOM Food Pantry” selected in the dropdown.

A picture is worth a thousand words! On July 12, 2023, Yvonne Brown, Capital Medical Society Foundation Board Director (pictured left), delivered Food Pantry items to Elaine Geissinger, FSU College of Medicine Tallahassee Regional Campus Administrator (pictured right). Elaine Geissinger and the medical students continue to express their gratitude to CMS Foundation for helping address food insecurity issues on campus.

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

C. William Applegate, M.D.

David E. Craig, M.D.

Larry Taylor, M.D.

Frank Walker, M.D.

Charles D. Williams, M.D.

Capital Medical Society Foundation –Area of Greatest Need

Robin McDougall, LCSW

We Care Network

Anonymous

The CMS Foundation Scholarship Fund

David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Myrle R. Grate, Jr., M.D.

David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Eleanor Hutchinson Smith

David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Daniel Van Durme, M.D.

Capital Medical Society Foundation –FSU College of Medicine Tallahassee Regional Campus Food Pantry

Anonymous

J. Alan Cox

Elaine Geissinger

Patricia Holliday

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Jones

John P. Mahoney, M.D.

Francis C. Skilling, Jr., M.D.

Your gifts to the Capital Medical Society Foundation transform lives in the Big Bend.

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 $129 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 2022-23, which ended June 30, 2023, more than $5 million in healthcare 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 CMS Foundation 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. $50,000 was awarded in 2022. An additional $1,000 was awarded from The Anesthesiology Associates of Tallahassee Scholarship Fund. $1,000 was also awarded from The Charles D. “Pedro” Williams, M.D. Scholarship Fund. In 2022, the first Julia Revell St. Petery, M.D. Scholarship in Pediatrics was awarded.

➢ 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 2023, the CMSF awarded a total of $14,000 in grants to the Big Bend Hospice Foundation for bereavement services, Elder Care Services for in-home services to seniors, Lighthouse of the Big Bend to provide services to the visually impaired, and to Lutheran Social Services of North Florida, Inc. for the KidSafe program.

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:

Gifts should be made payable to the CMS Foundation. 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 (850) 559-8611

THANK YOU

To our CMS members and We Care Network partners who provided healthcare to new patients in June 2023.

Your generosity and support of the We Care Network makes a difference.

Physicians

Jay Allard, M.D.

Marie Becker, M.D.

Michael Bernhardt, M.D.

Timothy Bolek, M.D.

Viet Bui, M.D.

Carlos Campo, M.D.

Francisco Carpio, M.D.

Gilbert Chandler, M.D.

Eric Chung, M.D.

William Dixon IV, M.D.

H. Avon Doll, M.D.

David Dolson, M.D.

Chesley Durgin, M.D.

Adam Engel, M.D.

James Farrell, D.O.

Alberto Fernandez, M.D.

Hong Gao, M.D.

W. Harris Green, M.D.

Gregory Hartlage, M.D.

Todd Hewitt, M.D.

Brook Hill, M.D.

Marc Inglese, M.D.

Joey Jarrard, M.D.

Kenneth Kato, M.D.

Sayeed Khalillullah, M.D.

James Killius, M.D.

Fang Sarah Ko, M.D., PhD

Hari Kolli, M.D.

Kurt Luhmann, M.D.

Michael Mangan, M.D.

Mina Mousa, M.D.

Kishor Muniyappa, M.D.

Mitchell Peabody, D.O.

Michael Pentaleri, M.D.

Hussein Rayatzadeh, M.D.

Pablo Rengifo-Moreno, M.D.

Allison Retzer, M.D.

Davis Rierson, M.D.

Tim Ruark, M.D.

Ronald Saff, M.D.

Eliot Sieloff, M.D.

Hardeep Singh, M.D.

Bhavik Soni, M.D.

Robert Steinmetz, M.D.

Ronald Sullivan, M.D.

John Thabes, M.D.

William Thompson, M.D.

Jean-Paul Tran, M.D.

Ernesto Umana, M.D.

Beatriz Cepeda Valery, M.D.

Kaisa van der Kooi, M.D.

Andrea Venturini, M.D.

David Vermess, M.D.

Tony Weaver, M.D.

William Yaakob, M.D.

Brian Zirgibel, M.D.

Dentists

Briano Allen, D.D.S.

Jean-Pierre Bastien, D.M.D.

David Cardman, D.M.D.

Walter Colón, D.M.D.

Alan Dransfield, D.M.D.

William McFatter, D.D.S.

Lawrence Pijut, D.M.D.

Lawrence Weaver, D.D.S.

Facilities

Advanced Urology Institute

Airway Works, LLC

Allergy & Asthma Diagnostic Treatment Center

Anesthesiology Associates

Apalachee Primary Care

Bastien Dental Care

Beachton Denture Clinic

Bond Community Health Center

Care Point Health & Wellness Center

Dermatology Associates

Digestive Disease Clinic

Enhanced Endodontics

Eye Associates of Tallahassee

FSU PrimaryHealth

Gadsden County

Health Department

HCA Florida Capital Hospital

Cancer Center

HCA Florida Capital Hospital

Primary Care

Jessie Furlow Medical Center

Ketchum, Wood, & Burgert Pathology Associates

Lawrence J. Pijut DMD PA

Madison Medical Center

Neighborhood Medical Center North Florida

Nephrology Associates

North Florida Womens Care

North Monroe Medical Center

Periodontal Associates of North Florida

Radiology Associates of Tallahassee

Red Hills Dental Associates

Shepherds Hands – Monticello

Southeast Radiology Partners

Southern Medical Group, P.A.

Southern Vitreoretinal Associates

Tallahassee Diagnostic Imaging

Tallahassee Ear, Nose, and Throat

Tallahassee Gastro Health Center

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare

TMH Physician Partners

Cancer and Hematology

TMH Physician Partners

Cardiology and Internal Medicine

TMH Physician Partners

Cardiothoracic Surgery

TMH Physician Partners

Endocrinology Specialists

TMH Physician Partners

Gynecologic Oncology

Specialists

TMH Physician Partners

Heart Rhythm Clinic

TMH Physician Partners

Hospitalists Group

TMH Physician Partners

Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Specialists

TMH Physician Partners Quincy

TMH Physician Partners

Radiation Oncology Specialists

TMH Physician Partners

Surgical Specialists

TMH Physician Partners

Urology Specialists

TMH Physician Partners Wakulla

TMH Transition Center

Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic

TOC Canopy

Tallahassee VA Clinic

Wakulla County Health Department

Wakulla Medical Center

Womens Clinic

Women’s Imaging Center

Please contact Diana Bixler at dbixler@capmed.org or (850) 201-0130 if you are a We Care Network volunteer and you provided volunteer specialty care in the month of June 2023, 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!

We thank our referring providers from June 2023:

Jonathan Appelbaum, M.D.

Adrian Baker, M.D.

Katrina Ball, APRN

Kendra Brady, APRN

Sherry Bramblett, APRN

Daniel Breivogel, APRN

Tim Broeseker, M.D.

Patrick Brown, M.D.

Viet Bui, M.D.

Callie Burch, APRN

Rachel Busby-Drewek, APRN

Francisco Carpio, M.D.

Carlos Castro, M.D.

Melba Colon-Renta, M.D.

Jill David, APRN

Brian Del Carlo, D.D.S.

William Dixon IV, M.D.

Nathalie Esellem, APRN

Cynthia Evans, APRN

Sharron Foster, M.D.

Gian-Carlo Giove, M.D.

Lillie Green, APRN

Judy Griffin, APRN

Aixa Guzman, D.M.D.

Hantz Hercule, M.D.

Todd Hewitt, M.D.

Amit Jain, M.D.

Anneka Johnson, APRN

Christopher Laing, D.D.S.

Elaine Larkins, APRN

Janice Lawson, M.D.

Jessica Lea, APRN

Ashok Manocha, B.D.S.

Damon McMillan, M.D.

Lisa Menchion, APRN

Marie Methellus, APRN

Jennifer Miles, APRN

Kelley Miller, APRN

Marcia Morris, APRN

Abiodun Ogunremi, APRN

Chukwuma Okoroji, M.D.

Rose Origa, APRN

Anthony Otekeiwebia, M.D.

Dianne Pappachristou, D.O.

Jorge Perez de Armas, M.D.

Lisa Perkins, APRN

Angela Pham, P.A.

Hussein Rayatzadeh, M.D.

Charlie Richardson, M.D.

Karen Russell, M.D.

David Saint, M.D.

Expedito Salvador, P.A.

Lucilita Salvador, P.A.

Kyla Shillington, APRN

Benjamin Shivar, P.A.

Jeannine Silberman, M.D.

Paul Smith, D.M.D.

Angela Smith, APRN

Christopher Sundstrom, M.D.

Yusef Syed, M.D.

Cristian Del Carpio

Tenorio, M.D.

Faye Tinson, APRN

Dwanna Ward-Boahen, APRN

Beatriz Cepeda Valery, M.D.

Lakeshia Washington, APRN

Jeffrey Wasserman, D.O.

Eula Weaver, APRN

Tony Weaver, M.D.

Barbara Williams, M.D.

Shana Wood, APRN

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