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ILLUMINATIONS STARRY STARRY NIGHT 21C MUSEUM | OKLAHOMA CITY | THROUGH DECEMBER 2019 CRYSTAL BRIDGE Serving You So You Can Serve Your Patients OKLAHOMA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2019 ILLUMINATIONS STARRY STARRY NIGHT 21C MUSEUM | OKLAHOMA CITY | THROUGH DECEMBER 2019 CRYSTAL BRIDGE Serving you so you can serve your patients. You work hard. With Commerce in your corner, you can focus on why you chose to become a doctor in the first place. Leave the rest to us - sounds like just what the doctor ordered. 405.608.2707 commercebank.com © 2019 Commerce Bancshares, Inc. WF490866 RUSH OK Healthcare ad 6.875x4.5.indd 1 10/9/2019 12:44:58 PM YOU DESERVE THE BEST. INTRODUCING PLICO + MEDPRO GROUP We’re bringing the best of PLICO and MedPro to provide you unparalleled defense, expertise and service. Protect your business, assets and reputation with Oklahoma’s most dynamic healthcare liability solution. 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THE BULLETIN November/December Volume 92 Number 6 Six Annual Publications • Circulation 1500 313 North East 50th Street, Suite 2 Oklahoma City, OK 73105-1830 TABLE OF CONTENTS phone: 405-702-0500 fax: 405-702-0501 email: [email protected] About the Cover . 3 www.okcountymed.org President’s Page . 5 Dean’s Page . 9 Ideas and opinions expressed in editorials and feature articles are those of their authors and do not necessarily express the official Physician Collegiality Dinner . 11 opinion of the Oklahoma County Medical Society. 2020 Officer Candidates . 11 OFFICERS Law & Medicine . 12 R . Kevin Moore, MD . President The Poet’s Spot . 15 Lisa J . Wasemiller-Smith, MD . President-Elect PBMs on Hot Seat . 16 Basel S . Hassoun, MD . Vice-President Healthcare for the Uninsured . 18 Savannah D . Stumph, DO . Secretary-Treasurer OCMS News . 20 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Director’s Dialogue . 23 Jeffrey B . Cruzan, MD Sumit K . Nanda, MD Mini-Mae’s Last Ride . 24 Sam S . Dahr, MD Thy K . Nguyen, MD Integrating Mind and Body . 26 Tabitha D . Danley, DO Robert C . Salinas, MD The Dance Doctor . 29 Morris R . Gessouroun, MD Ralph O . Shadid, MD Matthew J . Jared, MD Chad M . Smith, MD CME Information . 31 Christopher Jordan, MD Jeremy R . White, MD Professional Registry . 32 Amanda K . Levine, MD BOARD OF CENSORS THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 SPONSORS! Sam S . Dahr, MD BRONZE David L . Holden, MD First Liberty Bank Don L . Wilber, MD McBride Orthopedic Hospital EXECUTIVE OFFICE Oklahoma Blood Institute OU Medicine Jana Timberlake . Executive Director Alison Fink . Associate Director, PLICO Managing Editor of The Bulletin Quail Creek Bank Rebecca Carr . Membership Coordinator Variety Care EDITORIAL BOARD THANK YOU TO OUR ADVERTISERS! William P . Truels, MD Baker Asset Management LLC Editor Commerce Bank S .S . Sanbar, MD, PhD, JD Epworth Villa Assistant Editor INTEGRIS Hospice Anureet K . Bajaj, MD Hanna A . Saadah, MD Laser Partners of Oklahoma Mark F . Kowalski, MD Christopher Jordan, MD Oklahoma City Ballet H . K . Kurkjian, MD Pooja Singhal, MD Betsy Nolan, MD Michael Taylor, MD OK Allergy & Asthma Clinic Tomás P . Owens, MD Elizabeth Wickersham, MD OSMA Health Janet G . Rodgers, MD Wilshire-Pennington 2019 November/December | The Bulletin 1 2 The Bulletin | 2019 November/December ILLUMINATIONS: Starry Starry Night presented by OGE Energy Corp. Crystal Bridge Conservatory plus exterior lighting November 27, 2019 through January 5, 2020 Wednesdays through Sundays, 6-9pm Holiday Hours: Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day $6 for members; $8 for nonmembers; Children 2 and under are free Our immersive light installation celebrating the ILLUMINATIONS: holidays returns to the Crystal Bridge Conservatory STARRY STARRY NIGHT EVENTS Wednesday, November 27 . The entire Bridge serves as a canvas for moving lights choreographed to music, • November 30 -Sugar Plum Fairy inviting visitors inside for a curated and creative • December 1- Nutcracker experience . Inspiration for this year’s show is the • December 7 -Reindeer swirling blue and gold images of the painting The Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh . • December 8 -Elf on a shelf • December 14 -Anna and Elsa Illuminations: Starry Starry Night will be designed to • December 15 -Reindeer capture the unique lighting of a winter sky . Features • December 20 -Platt College-Cookie Decorating this year include a lighted tunnel along the upper • December 21 -Hooplahoma and Elf walkway and a planetarium feel in the area on the west side of the Bridge called the Oculus Room . • December 22 -Mrs . Claus Highlighted in this experience are the rare and • December 28 -Meet Olaf beautiful plants inside the Conservatory . • December 29 -Sugar Plum Fairy • December 31 -New Year’s Eve, last entry at 9pm A must-see event for the entire family, Illuminations: • January 1 -Snow Globe Ballerina Starry Starry Night is sure to become a holiday tradition in downtown Oklahoma City . Sponsored by Devon Energy Corp., Delta Dental with additional sponsors Downtown Oklahoma City, E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, RK Black Inc., and Absentee Shawnee Tribe. 2019 November/December | The Bulletin 3 4 The Bulletin | 2019 November/December PRESIDENT’S PAGE R. Kevin Moore, MD IF WE FAIL TO ADAPT, WE FAIL TO MOVE FORWARD. hat a year we’ve had . I can’t believe societies have experienced the same fate of declining that Fall is here and the year is rapidly membership over the past 10 years and we hope to coming to a close . As I write this, there implement some organizational changes that will stop the W are only 66 days till Christmas! My decline and hopefully lead to more involvement from our pediatric office was decorated for Halloween and the kids younger physicians at the House of Delegates . loved all the decorations hanging from the ceiling, the We had great success with our first collegiality dinner banners, and the spooky door decor . They probably just focusing on Women in Medicine last spring . We had our liked the candy! I get a kick out of asking what they are second dinner focusing on LGBTQ issues facing medical going to dress up as for trick or treat . It’s so cute when you students, residents, and physicians on October 28 . I am get the zombie princess astronaut combinations . Kids don’t moderating the discussions along with Shawn Fitzgerald, think “I can’t be that,” or “that’s not what a boy or girl DO, a family practice attending and Spencer Thompson, should dress up as ”. They want to pretend to be whatever MD, a radiation oncologist at the OU Medical Center . We they want . Why is Spiderman always so popular? One of discussed discuss how we dealt with issues as medical those great mysteries of life . students and residents, and then how we have faced We had a wonderful OCMS retreat recently . We spent challenges in our practices, both in private practice and the the entire session concentrating on membership . We invited university settings . OSMA leadership, Tulsa County leadership, and the Rural Section to also attend since declining membership affects Isn’t it amazing just how us all . We met at Quail Creek Country Club one Saturday morning and after a few very productive hours, came up with much Oklahoma County some ideas, plans, and timelines for us to implement over Medical has done for the next few months . OCMS is working hard adapt those plans and ideas into our member benefits, so be watching for physicians and the changes in the coming months . community over the years? Two years ago, OCMS submitted a resolution to review the structure of the OSMA House of Delegates and look at In 1975, OCMS identified the need for a community ways to improve the process and structure due to declining emergency transport system . Over a one-year period, attendance . OSMA assigned the process to the Membership working with the Mayor’s Task Force, AMCARE, now Task Force, who recently met with a representative from EMSA, began without the assistance of government the Kansas Medical Association . Pretty much all medical Continues on page 6 … 2019 November/December | The Bulletin 5 PRESIDENT’S PAGE Continued from page 5 … funding . OCMS committed $19,000 .00 in funding and diagnoses specified, and no electronic records kept. We have provided physicians to serve on the professional advisory helped multiple people over the past year . Currently the group . In 1972, OCMS leadership began a study of the program is open to any OCMS member or resident member . local problems we were having with blood banks . After Recently we have been contacted by members of the Tulsa years of planning, financing was secured by physicians and Rural sections about being able to participate in this in Oklahoma County and the Oklahoma Blood Institute program . Also, we lost a medical student to suicide this was formed . It is now recognized as a national leader summer . Leadership felt that this issue was so important, in blood banks and offers many medical services and is that it should be open to anyone in need . The PWP oversight involved in many hematology related research projects . committee met with Dr . Mark Fergeson, Associate Dean, In 1990, OCMS leadership identified the need for a local OU College of Medicine, on October 10th, and we will non-profit hospice and Hospice of Oklahoma County was discuss at the November Board Meeting, about letting formed .
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