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President’s Letter

FFWF is an accomplishment of which women physicians Volunteer Match Program is a new initiative started
can be proud. More women physician committee participation is by MCMS. It aims to help physicians and ACPs fulfill their
needed to keep our partnership and our event a successful annual desire to volunteer their time and talents in the care of the
event. There are many ways to participate; if interested, email underserved, with less effort. We are creating a database of the
ssmith@meckmed.org for more information. The 2019 event will needs of our community clinics and facilitating scheduling of
be October 1. your valuable time. Our hope is simply to make it easier for
you to find and fill those needs in a timely manner.
Meck PAC is co-chaired by John Allbert, MD, and John
Williford, Jr., MD. The PAC seeks to identify, educate and The support we can give and receive as a part of a
support those candidates who have a real understanding of the community builds social capital within our ranks and can
issues physicians face in caring for patients, and who support help to support and encourage our peers.
legislation that positively impacts the practice of medicine. These
issues include, but are not limited to, medical malpractice reform, I realize your time, like camaraderie, is a precious
payment and contract negotiations, pay for performance and commodity. I encourage you to consider ways in which you
scope of practice. In the past year, our PAC organized meet- can help foster a community of your physician peers, by
and-greets with state Senators Dan Bishop and Jeff Jackson, renewing your membership and perhaps becoming involved in
and candidate Dan McCready. These were very well attended one of our programs.
and offered face-to-face access to legislators. PAC makes
contributions to candidates in both parties who are committed to
the practice of medicine and patient access. If you have interest in
the MCMS PAC, email ssmith@meckmed.org.

Mecklenburg Medicine Magazine will be celebrating its 50th year
in 2020. Members are encouraged to send articles for consideration by
the Editorial Board to be published in the magazine. If you would like
to submit an article, email sbuchanan@meckmed.org.

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