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DociaE.Hickey,MD,Elected162ndPresident Upcoming Meetings & Events
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On Oct. 23, Docia E. Hickey, MD, was sworn in as the North Meetings are at the MCMS office unless otherwise noted.

Carolina Medical Society’s (NCMS) 162nd president at the n Friday, Jan. 1 n Friday, Jan. 15
Society’s Annual Meeting at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro. New Year’s Day – MCMS office Child Health Committee meeting.
Dr. Hickey is a neonatologist, recently retired from Carolinas closed. 7:30 a.m.

HealthCare System, where she spent the bulk of her career. She n Tuesday, Jan. 12 n Monday, Jan. 18
has been a member of the NCMS since 1980, and has been in MedLink meeting. MCMS Executive Committee
leadership roles on a variety of NCMS committees and task Mecklenburg County Health Dept. meeting.
forces over the years. As a member of the Society’s Board 8:30 a.m. 5:45 p.m.
of Directors since 2005, her positions included
vice speaker and speaker, and, most recently n Tuesday, Jan. 12 n Wednesday, Jan. 20
Charlotte Dental Society meeting. MMAE Finance/Board meeting.
president-elect. She also has served as president Myers Park Country Club. 9 a.m./10 a.m
of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society,
the North Carolina Perinatal Association, as a 6 p.m. n Friday, Jan. 22

member of the North Carolina Child Fatality n Thursday, Jan. 14 March magazine deadline.
CAMGMA meeting.
Docia E. Hickey, MD Task Force and on the boards of a variety of non- Myers Park Baptist Church Cornwell
profit organizations including the Holy Angels
Foundation, which serves the needs of intellectually and Center.
developmentally disabled children and adults.
Hickey earned her undergraduate degree form Emory Noon.

University after which she returned to her native North DO YOU WANT A
Carolina to earn her medical degree at the Bowman Gray PART-TIME PRACTICE?
School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. Outside of her
two years as a fellow in neonatology at Vanderbilt University,
Hickey was an intern and resident and spent her career at
Charlotte Memorial Hospital, now Carolinas HealthCare
System. She also has been a professor in the Department of
Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. or
Outgoing NCMS President Robert E. Schaaf, MD, FACR,
swore in Hickey and noted in his remarks: “With her years DO YOU WANT TO DO
of leadership experience in organized medicine, her deep SOME EXTRA PRACTICE?
knowledge of the North Carolina Medical Society and her
calm, yet firm, presence, Dr. Hickey will be a strong advocate
for our profession during her tenure as NCMS president.”

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Trivia answer from page 5: Edward Jenner was an English physician, who is considered the father of vaccinology. He noticed that people infected with
cowpox, a mild illness, did not get infected with smallpox. In 1796, he withdrew some fluid from a pustule of a milk maid infected with cowpox (the cow
she milked, named Blossom, lives on in infamy as her hide is displayed in St. George’s medical school), and injected the fluid into the 8-year-old son of his
gardener (I am quite certain there was no informed consent back then). Weeks later, he injected the boy again with fluid from a smallpox lesion. The boy did
not contract smallpox. Thus was born the age of vaccines (from the Latin vaca, for cow).

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