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The Medical Society of the County of Queens and The Academy of Medicine of Queens County Bulletin Volume 11 • Issue No. 1 Over 200 Years of Service to the Medical Community of Queens County Fall 2019 t Inside This Issue From the President’s Desk 1 President’s Message Dear Friends and Colleagues, The core of our Society is our mem bership. 2 Upcoming Meetings Over the next year, I invite all of you to bring in Programs/Events Happy Autumn! at least ONE new member who will participate 3 Epithelial Ovarian Cancer I hope that all of you had a in our activities. Secondly, during this year, I wonderful summer and that 4 Managing Negative en courage all of you to serve our Society in at Online Reviews this message finds you and least ONE new way --in an activity that you feel your loved ones well. 5 Protecting Your Medical passionate about. Practice from Employment- Related Liability in Autumn represents for me a time of significant I extend a warm invitation to all of our new New York State change: colder weather, colorful foliage, the busy physi cian members from Northwell Health who 6 ACF’S Corner start of school, and the reconvening of our New have joined us earlier this year. I also invite all of York State Assembly. This past summer, we saw our members to play a more active role in our 7 Do Women with Dense Breasts Need many developments in healthcare policy and Medical Society: Supplemental Imaging public health: the end of our national measles to Screen for outbreak after over 1200 cases, removal of the • Attend our monthly Comitia Minora meetings (members/non-members welcome) Breast Cancer? religious exemption for vaccines in our state, 8 Main Street Radiology hundreds of lung injury cases from vaping, • Participate in our professional and/or social events physi cian response to address surprise bill Join one of our Standing or Special Committees 9 TD Bank • leg is lation, blocked implementation of a 90-day • Organize a professional or social event 10 The Ralph E. ban on most flavored e-cigarettes in our state, etc. Schlossman, MD Award for our Society • Contribute to our quarterly Society newsletter 11 Brandeis- Executive MBA As members of one of 60 county medical societies for Physicians which comprise the Medical Society of the State • Meet with legislators to advocate for physicians 12 The Origin of NYC of New York, we all have an important role and patients in March 2020 in Albany on Physician Lobby Day Health+Hospitals/Queens advo cating for ourselves as physicians and for 13 The Boulevard Hospital our patients. As I mentioned in my inaugural Through participation and service, you will find 14 NYC Commissioner of ad dress in May 2019 at Russo's on the Bay, we colleagues, role models, mentors, and friends. Health Memorandum can seize on ample opportunities to learn about They will broaden your perspective and inspire important healthcare policies a ffecting us and you to return again and again. Additionally, you 15 Just What the Doctor Ordered/Recipe our patients, increase our medical knowledge, will improve the health of your patients and and meet other skilled and compassionate other Queens residents. In so doing, you will Executive MBA/MS in col leagues through our Medical Society. make your Queens community a healthier and Healthcare Leadership Cornell University more enjoyable place to live and work. Over We are blessed to live in the most ethnically time, you will find higher meaning and greater 16 Symposium: diverse county in America: Queens has 2.3 “Health Matters joy in your professional and personal lives. for Women” mil lion residents who come from more than 190 countries and speak more than 130 languages. It is my privilege to serve all of you. Our Medical 17 Film Screening: As a proud native of Queens, I have lived here “To Err is Human” Society looks forward to providing unique for 30 years and cared for patients as a pri mary op portu nities for professional education, 18 Symposium: care physician for the past 15 years. networking, and socialization this year. We “Spotlight on Elder Abuse” wel come your ideas and participation. Please As President of our Medical Society: I have contact me anytime at [email protected] 19 2019-2020 two goals this year --to strengthen our Society or by cell at 347-635-5233. MSCQ O fficers ■ by in creasing our membership of over 1400 Contact Information physicians and by deepening our engagement Best regards, in Queens. Liana Leung, MD, MPH, FACP, President www.MSCQ.org | BULLETIN 1 Upcoming Meetings Date • Time • Speaker Need the perfect space MSCQ for your meeting? Board of Trustees Meetings November 12, 2019 • 6:00 pm Call or e-mail us. Meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of December 3, 2019 • 6:00 pm the month, unless otherwise notified. Comitia Minora November 12, 2019 • 7:30 pm Leadership Meetings • “OPMC 101” Meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of Paula Breen, Acting Director the month, unless otherwise notified. NYS DOH Office of Professional Medical Conduct December 3, 2019 • 7:30 pm Ning Lin, MD, Neurological Surgery NYP Queens/Weill Cornell Medicine MEETINGS First District Meetings November 21, 2019 • 7:00 pm / TBA Refer to e-mails from this organization for details MSSNY Council Meeting November 7, 2019 • 8:00 am MSSNY House of Delegates 2020 April 24-26, 2020 / Tarrytown, NY Upcoming Programs / Events w Symposium on Women’s Health - ”Health Matters for Women” Saturday, November 2, 2019 • 7:30 am - 12:30 pm [CME - accredited activity] Location: NYC Health+Hospitals/Queens, Conference Room A-540 82-68 164 Street, Jamaica, NY To Register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9zloLYo7LUNcgpV8bEx3Xn4tQlnzhwTX PZRBO1cde04QfMw/viewform w Effects of Dapagliflozin Beyond Glycemia: Implications for Prevention of Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Type 2 Diabetes Wednesday, December 4, 2019 • 6:00 pm Presenter: Hillary Bell, PA-C, Cardiometabolic Clinical Science Liaison Location: Mythos Authentic Greek Cuisine w Programs & 19629 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY events details RSVP to attend See pages [email protected] 16, 17, 18 w A Patient Safety Documentary - ”To Err is Human” Tuesday, December 10, 2019 • 7:00 pm- 8:45 pm [Not a CME - accredited activity] Location: Medical Society of the County of Queens 112-25 Queens Blvd., 4th Floor, Queens, NY RSVP to attend by 12/06/2019 718-268-7300 or E-mail to: [email protected] PROGRAMS / EVENTS w 9th Annual Geriatrics & Palliative Care Symposium Spotlight on Elder Abuse: Now is the Time for Multidisciplinary Collaboration and Intervention Across the Care Continuum Tuesday, January 14, 2020 • 7:30 am- 12:45 pm [CME - accredited activity] For information about Location: NewYork-Presbyterian Queens • Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Center placing a CME program for Research and Education, 56-45 Main Street, Flushing, NY listing, please contact To Register 718.268.7300. 718-670-1419 • www.nypqcme.org www.MSCQ.org | BULLETIN 2 MEDICAL Epithelial Ovarian Cancer David A. Fishman, MD Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most diagnosed with EOC regardless of age or lethal gynecologic malignancy, with an family history should have formal genetic es timated 140,000 annual deaths globally. Inheritance of high-penetrance testing. Germline and somatic testing is The majority of women are diagnosed in cancer susceptibility genes now avail able to help identify those that advanced stage (III-IV), and despite advances places women at greatly are in herited and acquired which opens in therapy, this figure remains unchanged increased risk of developing EOC. new venues to optimize patient care. Iden - over five decades. The prognosis of advanced tifying women with genetic predisposition stage EOC is poor, with a 5-year survival for EOC is the first step toward risk assess - rate of 12-15%. In contrast, the 5-year ment and prevention. sur vival rate of early stage (I) EOC approx - imates 90%. Current modalities of bi- Biomarkers man ual exam, CA125, and transvaginal Biomarkers have long played a role in sonogram together allow us to detect at the management of EOC. CA125 is a best only 30% of women with early stage glycoprotein antigen that is the most disease, and this is more often due to the com monly known and measured tumor tumor biology rather than clinical acumen. marker. It is found in 85-90% of cases of Ideally, identification of at-risk individuals over 592 genes are associated with inherited EOC. However, it is only present in 47% of would lead to prevention or possibly the cancers. In heritance of high-penetrance those women with early stage EOC. There - detection of early stage disease when cancer susceptibility genes places women fore, using CA125 as the single marker in sub sequent treatment would improve at greatly increased risk of developing screening may miss more than 50% of prognosis. We believe identification and EOC. Several of the more recognized cases of early stage ovarian cancer. Multi - intervention of at-risk individuals will shift genes include BRCA1, BRCA2 and those ple publications have identified potential the paradigm of the treatment of EOC Lynch syndrome-associated mutations. biomarkers for detecting ovarian cancer in analogous to the role of cervical dysplasia Women who have inherited a BRCA1 or addition to CA125. Human epididymis in cervical cancer. BRCA2 gene mutation have a 35-70% and protein 4 (HE4), trasthyretin (TTR), 10-30% respective lifetime risk of develop - apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) and transferrin Genetics ing EOC. Those with Lynch syndrome as - are examples of protein biomarkers, that, All cancers have a genetic basis but not all sociated mutations (MLH1MSH2, MSH6, in combination with CA125, have been cancers are hereditary.