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T able of Contents May 2020
Vol. 50 No. 5
5 President’s Letter:
The Isolation Epidemic OFFICERS

By John R. Allbert, MD, President President
John R. Allbert, MD
6 Feature:
Love the Skin You’re In — Protect, Shade, Block President-Elect
Babak Mokari, DO
By Marc R. Carruth, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
7 National Health & Wellness Observances for May Kate E. Long, MD
7 Member Spotlight
Maureen L. Beurskens, MD Immediate Past-President
8 Advertising Acknowledgements Elizabeth B. Moran, MD
8 At the Hospitals
10 Independent Physicians of the Carolinas BOARD MEMBERS

1112 Harding Place, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28204 Hamza Beano, MD
704-376-3688 • FAX 704-376-3173 Anthony J. Caprio, MD
meckmed@meckmed.org Marc R. Carruth, MD
E. Carl Fisher, Jr., MD
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Mecklenburg Medicine is published 10 times per year by the Mecklenburg County Medical Society, 1112 Harding Place, suite Jane S. Harrell, MD
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the Mecklenburg County Medical Society. Mecklenburg Medicine reserves the right to edit all contributions for clarity and length, B. Lauren Paton, MD
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Tracei D. Ball, MD, President
Charlotte Medical Dental & Pharmaceutical Society

Sandi D. Buchanan, Executive Director
Mecklenburg County Medical Society

Rebecca Hayes, MD, FAAFP
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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Jenny H. Otto

MECKLENBURG MEDICINE STAFF

Editor
John R. Allbert, MD

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Sandi D. Buchanan

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