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Table of Contents January 2019
Vol. 49 No. 1
5 President’s Letter:
It’s the Little Things OFFICERS

By Elizabeth B. Moran, President, MCMS President
Elizabeth B. Moran, MD
6 2019 MCMS Annual Meeting: March 7
6 Care Ring President-Elect
6 Charlotte AHEC Course Offerings for January John R. Allbert, MD
8 Meet Your 2019 MCMS Board and Leadership Secretary/Treasurer
10 Member News Babak Mokari, DO
10 MCMS Election Results Immediate Past-President
10 New Members Scott L. Furney, MD
10 Upcoming Meetings
11 At the Hospitals BOARD MEMBERS
13 Independent Physicians of the Carolinas
13 National Health & Wellness Observances Raymond E. Brown, PA
14 Advertising Acknowledgements Sarah M. Edwards, MD
E. Carl Fisher, Jr., MD
1112 Harding Place, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28204
704-376-3688 • FAX 704-376-3173 Jane S. Harrell, MD
meckmed@meckmed.org Kate E. Long, MD
B. Lauren Paton, MD
Copyright 2019 Mecklenburg County Medical Society Bennal M. Perkins, MD
Patricia K. Roddey, MD
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Darlyne Menscer, MD
NCMS Delegate to the AMA

Meg Sullivan, MD, Medical Director
Mecklenburg County Health Department

Douglas R. Swanson, MD, FACEP
Medical Director, Mecklenburg EMS Agency

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Sandi D. Buchanan

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