CMS & SPECIALTY NEWS
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY NEWS DeKalb Medical Society
by Melissa Connor, Executive Director The DeKalb Medical Society (DMS) will host a free ‘Medical Cannabis in Georgia’ dinner meeting at the Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, August 6 – an event that was originally scheduled to take place on April 16. The event is being sponsored by Curaleaf (curaleaf. com), which is a medical cannabis company. The event will address Georgia’s medical cannabis laws, the medical conditions that are covered by Georgia’s medical cannabis laws, the steps a physician needs to take to “certify” that a patient has one of the conditions that are covered by Georgia’s law, and the steps that low-THC/CBD oil producers are taking to ensure patient safety. Contact Melissa Connor at mconnor@pami.org to make a reservation, which is required. Bibb County Medical Society
by Dale Mathews, Executive Director The Bibb County Medical Society’s (BCMS) meeting in February featured an outstanding risk coding
BCMS President-elect Dr. Cameka Scarborough with Dr. Ronnie Smith following his presentation in February.
presentation by Ronnie R. Smith, M.D., MBA. He discussed how practices should code for patient risk to be reimbursed accordingly. Dr. Smith is a primary care physician in Vidalia, and he is a well-known coding expert. The BCMS members and their office staff that attended the meeting said that the presentation was “really interesting,” and they asked numerous questions. Go to www.bibbphysicians.org or contact Dale Mathews at bibbphysicians@gmail.com for information on BCMS.
SPECIALTY SOCIETY NEWS Atlanta Association for Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery
by Maryann B. McGrail, CAE, CMP, Executive Director The Atlanta Association for Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery (AADDS) will hold CME activities on July 14, September 12, and October 27. Contact Maryann McGrail at maryann@ theassociationcompany. com for details. Go to www. atlantaderm.org for additional information on AADDS. Georgia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology
The Georgia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (GA-ACC) will reschedule its ‘Southeast WIC Conference’ as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to event co-chairs Gina Lundberg, M.D., FACC, and Alison Bailey, M.D., FACC. GA-ACC has also cancelled the ‘Cardiovascular Update’ meeting that was scheduled to take place in
Athens in May. This event will now take place at Callaway Gardens on April 21-25, 2021. Contact Melissa Connor at mconnor@pami.org with questions or to join GA-ACC.
MAG mourns loss of former President Roy W. Vandiver, M.D.
Georgia Gastroenterologic and Endoscopic Society
The annual Georgia Gastroenterologic and Endoscopic Society (GGES) meeting for 2020 is scheduled for September 12 at the W Midtown Atlanta. For more information or to join GGES, visit www.ggesonline.org. Georgia Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery
by Maryann B. McGrail, CAE, CMP, Executive Director The Georgia Society Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery (GSDDS) has rescheduled its annual ‘Congress of Clinical Dermatology’ at the Hilton Sandestin for August 28-30, 2020. Contact Maryann McGrail at maryann@ theassociationcompany.com for details. Go to www.gaderm. org for additional information on GSDDS. Submit your county medical society, member or specialty society news to Tom Kornegay at tkornegay@mag.org. Also contact Kornegay with any corrections, which will run in the next edition of the Journal. The Journal reserves the right to edit submissions for length and clarity. Bolding recognizes the physicians who are active MAG members at the time the Journal was prepared. Go to www.mag.org/membership to renew your MAG membership.
The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) is mourning the loss of Roy W. Vandiver, M.D., who served as MAG’s president in 1993-1994. Having joined Atlanta Neurosurgical Associates, Dr. Vandiver practiced neurosurgery for more than 30 years at Emory Decatur Hospital (then DeKalb General and later DeKalb Medical) and Eastside Medical Center. In addition to his MAG leadership roles, Dr. Vandiver was MagMutual’s chairman from 1999 to 2011, and he was the president of the DeKalb Medical Society, the chairman of the Georgia Neurosurgical Society, a member of the DeKalb Hospital Authority, and the chairman of the board of the American Medical Association’s Political Action Committee. Dr. Vandiver graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, three sons, and six grandchildren. Memorial contributions can be made to the DeKalb Medical Oncology Fund at www. supportmedicine.emory.edu/ Vandiver and/or the Global Village Project at www. globalvillageproject.org.
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