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T able of Contents October 2020
Vol. 50 No. 9
6 President’s Letter:
Physician Immigration and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages OFFICERS

By John R. Allbert, MD, President President
John R. Allbert, MD
7 Feature:
Safe Alliance Adapts October Breakfast to President-Elect
Awareness Campaign, Virtual Event Babak Mokari, DO

B y Karen Parker, President and CEO, Safe Alliance Secretary/Treasurer
Kate E. Long, MD
8 Feature:
Breast Cancer Awareness Month Immediate Past-President
Elizabeth B. Moran, MD
B y Maureen L. Beurskens, MD
BOARD MEMBERS
9 Member News Anthony J. Caprio, MD
9 New Members Marc R. Carruth, MD
10 Feature: Vanessa B. Crerar, DO
E. Carl Fisher, Jr., MD
Finding Purpose and Peace in the Final Chapter of Life Jane S. Harrell, MD
Katherine Li, MD
By Ken Garfield B. Lauren Paton, MD
Bennal M. Perkins, MD
11 National Health & Wellness Observances for October Patricia K. Roddey, MD
11 Charlotte AHEC Course Offerings for October Anna T. Schmelzer, MD
13 Feature: Andrew I. Sumich, MD
G. Bernard Taylor, MD
Getting to 0 New Infections in Mecklenburg
County: The Promise of PrEP for HIV Prevention EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS

By Meagan Zarwell, PhD, Alexandra Patton, MPH, Brian Witt, PhD Matthew B. Brothers, MD, President
and Patrick Robinson, MD Charlotte Medical Dental & Pharmaceutical Society

14 At the Hospitals Sandi D. Buchanan, Executive Director
16 Independent Physicians of the Carolinas Mecklenburg County Medical Society
18 Advertising Acknowledgements
Rebecca Hayes, MD, FAAFP
On the Cover: NCMS Delegate to the AMA

National Physician Assistant Week — see page 16. Meg Sullivan, MD, Medical Director
Mecklenburg County Health Department
1112 Harding Place, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28204
704-376-3688 • FAX 704-376-3173 Douglas R. Swanson, MD, FACEP
meckmed@meckmed.org Medical Director, Mecklenburg EMS Agency

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