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CMS Set to Make Changes for 2011 Meeting Schedule

By Karen Wendland, Executive Director

The CMS Board of Governors and our CME Committee have decided to make changes in our meeting schedule come 2011. These changes are in response to member requests and in response to the attendance at different meetings. We want to offer meetings that you want to attend.

Another important change — the CME Committee has a new Chair as of 2011. Dr. Christie Sain has agreed to serve as Chair and she has added many new members to the CME Committee. We thank Dr. Tracey Hellgren for her service as our CME Chair the past 5 years. She has done an absolutely fantastic job for you and CMS. We will not be doing our Annual CME Conference in January. Instead we will return to a monthly Membership Meeting, on the third Tuesday of the month. At that meeting we will install our new CMS President – Tracey Hellgren, M.D. The topic for the evening will be timely and what is on the mind of every physician and their staff... what changes to expect in health care in 2011. We will invite practice administrators to this meeting.

In March, we will continue the tradition of our holding our Celebration Awards Dinner on the last Thursday in March, in honor of Doctors' Day. This year the dinner will be on March 31st.

We will hold our regular Membership Meetings at Goodwood Conference Center on the 3rd Tuesday in April and May. The CME Committee is finalizing the programs for these meetings, too.

In June, we will offer our second "CMS Family Night" where you can invite your spouse and all your children! We are on a new 3-year rotation between Doctor-Daughter Dinner, Doctor-Son Dinner and CMS Family Night. In 2008, we had our first CMS Family Night at the Antique Car Museum and it was very well received. This year we are going to Doak Campbell Stadium for an evening of fun activities for the entire family. Make plans to attend!

How does CMS select topics and speakers?

The Capital Medical Society takes very serious its role as a CME provider to its members. CME programs are considered a member benefit and we have a CME Committee that meets regularly and carefully plans our CME Programs each year.

It is the policy of the Capital Medical Society to provide high quality CME programs to its members and other healthcare providers, as it deems appropriate.

How does the selection process take place for our CME Programs? Twice a year, in Cap Scan, we ask our members if you would like to do a CME program in the upcoming year. The CME Committee meets twice a year and selects the five or six CME programs we will do during the upcoming year. The Committee reviews the CME programs during the past three years, to avoid duplication. As potential speakers, the CME Committee looks to our newly arrived physicians who bring interesting perspectives from their residency training.

So this is the time of year that we ask you to please submit a proposal to our CME Committee if you would like to present a CME Program in 2011.

As many of you have probably realized, it is our intention to tap into the wealth of training and expertise right here at home and ask our own CMS physicians to give our CME talks.

After each CME program, we give participants an evaluation, so that we can use your suggestions to plan future meetings. Your feedback is valuable to us. If you have comments or suggestions, please contact me or Rosalie Carlin at 877-9018.

CME Topics and Speakers for the Past Three Years

We thank the following physicians who have prepared and presented these CME programs for CMS.

2008

• Actively Aging: The AGE-less Diet - Sandra Woodruff, MS, RD, LD/N
• Geriatric Sexuality - Lisa Granville, M.D.
• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment - John Agens, M.D.
• Actively Aging and Preserving Vision - Jerry Ford, M.D.
• Common Mental Health Disorders in the Elderly - Josepha A. Cheong, M.D.
• Actively Aging: Preventing & Treating Orthopedic Injuries - Garrison Rolle, M.D.
• Solutions for the National Problem of Uninsured Healthcare - Jeremy Lazarus, M.D. and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
• Update on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - William Kepper, M.D.
• Hip Replacement and Hip Resurfacing - Andrew Wong, M.D.
• Pharmacotherapy for Smoking Cessation & Motivational Interviewing - Carlos Campo, M.D. and Gareth R. Dutton, Ph.D.
• Palliative Thinking – A Discussion for Physicians - David Robinson, M.D.

2009

• Pandemic Flu - Joe Mazziotta, M.D.
• Medical Family Preparedness and Community Disaster Preparedness - Joe Mazziotta, M.D.
• Pediatric Obesity: A Growing Problem - Caulley Soto, M.D.
• Surgical Management of Obesity - Eliot Sieloff, M.D.
• Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Newer Vaccines - Lisa Jernigan, M.D.
• Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Big Bend - Jerry Harris, M.D.
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Vikki McKinnie, M.D.
• Sports Medicine Update - Kris Stowers, M.D. Travel Medicine - John MacKay, M.D.
• Florida Board of Medicine Update - Jennifer Hinson, Regulatory Affairs Counsel, Florida Medical Association
  and Gary Winchester, M.D., Florida Board of Medicine
• Commonly Seen Urological Disorders - David Burday, M.D.
• The Occurrence of Adverse Events and Medical Errors - Dennis Tsilimingras, M.D., MPH,
• Systemic Periodontal Disease and Cardiovascular Considerations - Walt Colon, DMD, MS & Thomas Noel, M.D.

2010

• Medical Family Wellness - Spouse, Significant Others and Children: Participate in the Reality - Steve Livingston, Ph.D., Mercer University
• The Marriage - Linda Miles, Ph.D., Private Practice in Tallahassee
• Preach, Teach and Real Life: Psychological and Physical Aspects of Physician Wellness -
  Eron Manusov, M.D., FSU-College of Medicine
• Mindfulness - Richard A. Panico, M.D., Athens Regional Medical Center
• Financial Wellness for Florida Physicians – Randal C. Fairbanks, Esq. with Fairbanks & McGillin, P.C in Jacksonville, Florida. He is affiliated with Physicians Advantage, a company endorsed by the FMA.
• Emerging Trends in Electronic Medical Records - Diane Gaddis, CPHIMS
• HIT Summit - Panel Discussions about Health Information Technology –
  Tom Harrison, CEO, Tallahassee Primary Care Associates;
  Garry Spahr, Administrator, Cpiatl Surgical Associates;
  Bill Dillon, JD, with Messer Caparello & Self; Zach Finn, Director, Big Bend RHIO;
  Darinda Nesmith, Digestive Disease Clinic; Dr. Dan Kaelin, Vascular Surgery Associates and Dr. John MacKay.
• Vitamin D: Implications including and beyond Osteoporosis - Terry W. Sherraden, M.D., FACE
• Hot Topics in Medical Practice Management: What Physicians and Administrators Need to Know - Cliff Rapp, LHRM
• Cutaneous Malignancies: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment -
  Marc Inglese, M.D., Okanta Jackson, M.D. and Stephen Richardson, M.D.

Would You Like to Give a CME Talk at a CMS Meeting?

Submit the following in writing to the CMS office. Put it to the ATTENTION of Karen Wendland.

1. Topic
2. Course objective(s)
3. Brief outline

Fax to 878-0218 or email to Karen Wendland at kwendland@capmed.org

Donate to the CMS Foundation — We Thank Our Donors

We thank the following physicians who made a donation to the CMS Foundation.

In Honor of Someone ~

On Veteran's Day An Anonymous donor made a donation in the name of Dr. Charles Williams, as a representative of all Capital Medical Society member, past and present who have served as physicians in the United States Armed Forces.

We thank the organizations that sponsored CMS Meetings and Lunch & Learn Seminars in 2010

• Allscripts
• Alpha Data Systems
• Amylin Pharmaceuticals
• AstraZeneca
• Automated Medical Systems
• Avant Financial Group
• Big Bend RHIO
• Boehringer Ingelheim
• Call Pointe
• Capital Health Plan
• Capital Regional Medical Center
• Cerner
• CODAGENX
• CopyFax
• Desloge Home Oxygen/Hopewell Nursing
• First Professionals Insurance Company (FPIC)
• FLAMPAC
• GE Healthcare
• Genentech, a member of the Roche Group
• Gilmore Services
• Greenway Medical
• HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital
• Humana MarketPOINT
• Krell Insurance Group, P.L.
• MAG Mutual
• Merck
• Novo Nordisk
• Premier Bank
• Professional Medical Insurance Services, Inc.
• Radiology Associates of Tallahassee
• Sage Healthcare Division
• Sanofi-Aventis
• Select Specialty Hospital
• Shred-it
• Straumann USA
• SunTrust
• Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
• The Bebout Group of Wells Fargo Advisors
• TMH Credit Union & Business Lending
• TMH Diabetes Center
• United Member Business Services, LLC
• Zimmer Dental

Status of the We Care Network – A list of everyone who donated this past year!

A huge thank you to all the physicians, podiatrists, dentists and organizations who volunteer in the We Care Network. Together, we provide an impressive, award-winning service to our community, providing access to low-income and uninsured adults in our four-county area.

The Capital Medical Society Foundation would like to recognize our 2010 We Care Network volunteers.

Participating Physicians

Participating Medical Facilities and Organizations

Participating We Care Dental Network Dentists

We would like to thank the We Care Dental Network Advisory Committee:

Walt Colón, D.M.D., Chair
Darrh Bryant, D.M.D.
Susan Byrne, D.M.D.
Avon Doll, M.D.
E. Lynn McLarty, D.D.S.
Jim McSoley D.M.D.
Lawrence Pijut, D.M.D.
Frank Swerdzewski, D.D.S.
James Sykes, D.M.D.
T.K. Tibby, D.D.S.
James Walton, D.D.S.
Lawrence Weaver, D.D.S.
Ed Zapert, D.M.D.

We would like to thank the Access to Care Committee whose mission is to continuously work, promote and support efforts to assure timely access to quality medical care for all, through its work as an active, dedicated and well informed committee. Its particular focus is advising and guiding the We Care Network.

Lisa Jernigan, M.D., Co-chair
James Stockwell, M.D., Co-chair
Patrice Bidwell, M.D.
Kenneth Brummel-Smith, M.D.
Walt Colón, D.M.D.
David Dixon, D.O.
Avon Doll, M.D.
Javier Escobar, M.D.
Terreze Gamble, M.D.
Scott Hanson, M.D.
Suzanne Harrison, M.D.
Kenneth Kato, M.D.
Marjorie Kirsch, M.D.
Nelson Kraeft, M.D.
Alma Littles, M.D.
Charles Mathews, M.D.
Satish Mital, M.D.
Judy St. Petery, M.D.
Richel Strydom, M.D.
Ed Zapert, D.M.D.
Bethann Mohamed, FSU Cares
Melissa Velarde, FSU Cares

If you are a We Care volunteer and your name is not listed, or if you are interested in joining the We Care Network, please call the CMS office at 877-9018. If there is an inaccuracy in this list, please let us know.