2021

College of Medicine Resident Diversity – Featuring Dr. James H. Tolley

 Dr. James H. Tolley speaks in support of MUSC Diversity training. Watch Dr. Tolley Here. Watch the Entire Video Here

December 13, 2021|Categories: 2021, Member Highlights|Tags: , |

Signature Sponsor – Speciality Blood Center

An extra special thanks to Tony Bas, our generous Signature Sponsor. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for Specialty Blood Center. Without your referrals, we would not be able to provide the important biological material that is needed by the in vitro diagnostic market to develop new, more accurate, faster, and cheaper diagnostic tests.

December 2, 2021|Categories: 2021, Meeting|

Annual Meeting 2021

Thank you, Dr. Marcelo Hochman, for your three years of dedicated leadership.  Welcome to our new President, Dr. Cleave Ham, and welcome, Dr. Kay Durst as President-Elect.  Thank you Rabbi Yossi Refson for the inspiring invocation.  Thank you, Mr. Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute's Director of Health Policy Studies, for your engaging presentation.  And, as always, thank you, Dr. Biemann Othersen for your CCMS service.  Lastly, a big THANK YOU to our CCMS Members for attending the 2021 Annual Meeting. Rabbi Yossi Refson giving the CCMS Invocation Dr. Biemann Othersen [...]

December 2, 2021|Categories: 2021, Meeting|

Healthlinks November/December 2021

Check us out in the November/December 2021 issue of Healthlinks DID YOU KNOW? Each issue CCMS sponsors a topic. Let Dana know of your ideas for any upcoming articles. Dana@charlestonmedicalsociety.org

November 3, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Member Highlights|Tags: , , |

Mental Health Initiative announcement for MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness

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Healthlinks September/October 2021

Check us out in the September/October 2021 issue of Healthlinks DID YOU KNOW? Each issue CCMS sponsors a topic. Let Dana know of your ideas for any upcoming articles. Dana@charlestonmedicalsociety.org

September 1, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Member Highlights, Women in Medicine|Tags: , |

Janice D. Key School Health Visionary Award

Ellen Nitz, CCSD Director of Nursing, won the 2021 Janice D. Key School Health Visionary from the SC School-Based Health Center Collaborative CONGRATULATIONS!

Healthlinks July/August 2021

Check us out in the July/August 2021 issue of Healthlinks DID YOU KNOW? Each issue CCMS sponsors a topic. Let Dana know of your ideas for any upcoming articles. Dana@charlestonmedicalsociety.org

July 1, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Member Highlights|Tags: |

Yaffee and Dr. Marcelo Hochman Discuss Problems in Our Healthcare System

On June 11, 2021, Dr. Hochman was interviewed by Yaffee on WVNN. Listen here

2021 Summer Newsletter

  Summertime - and the livin’ is getting’ easier! We’re all relieved that the pandemic is finally waning and our personal and professional lives are returning to normal.  Thus, ActionPPE.org, the local effort by CCMS to procure and distribute PPE to keep Doctors’ practices open and which grew to a national effort supplying over 4 million units of PPE is winding down.  We are incredibly proud of the project which showed, once again, that ‘bottom up’ solutions are the most effective in solving problems.  CCMS has benefited financially and with great national recognition (take a look at all these [...]

June 1, 2021|Categories: 2021, Newsletter|

After COVID: 3 things that states can do now to fix health care

To improve health care, there are a number of steps that states should be taking, including tax reforms and getting rid of CON laws. By Dr. Marcelo Hochman and Daryl James (Opinion contributors) Policymakers talk about comprehensive health care reform. They see a broken system and want to fix everything at once. Emergency room workers can relate, but they take a more strategic approach when patients arrive with multiple injuries. Through triage, they prioritize problems and apply isolated but related interventions to save lives. Fixing the health care system can work the same way. COVID-19 has exposed a range [...]

May 26, 2021|Categories: 2021, Medico-Legal, President|Tags: , |

Parent Workshop – Tough Conversations – Session 7

The CCMS School Health Committee and the Charleston County School District are excited to announce Parent Workshop - Session 7 Topics to be Discussed: Stress and African American Children & Adolescents Approaching Anxiety in Youth Tough Conversations For More Information contact Linda Ballinger at linda_ballinger@charleston.k12.sc.us

May 10, 2021|Categories: 2021, School Health|

Healthlinks May/June 2021

Check us out in the May/June 2021 issue of Healthlinks DID YOU KNOW? Each issue CCMS sponsors a topic. Let Dana know of your ideas for any upcoming articles. Dana@charlestonmedicalsociety.org

May 1, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Member Highlights|Tags: |

SCMA Firearm Safety Resolution

Congratulations to Dr. Annie Andrews, Dr. Jan Key, and the entire CCMS School Health Committee! Their resolution regarding firearm safe storage counseling, which was sponsored by CCMS and submitted to the SCMA House of Delegates at the 2021 SCMA Annual Meeting, was adopted by the SCMA delegates on April 25. This resolution encourages practicing physicians in South Carolina to use patient encounters as an opportunity to discuss firearm safety and safe storage practices and supports efforts to inform the public about safe storage of firearms.

April 26, 2021|Categories: 2021, Meeting, School Health|Tags: , , |

Anti-competitive, outdated laws must be repealed!

Research confirms that CON laws lead to higher costs and less access for patients. Both sides of the aisle agree! Tell your lawmaker that these anti-competitive, outdated laws must be repealed by signing this petition today! View full info packet The Certificate of Need (CON) conversation is back up in the South Carolina Senate! Senator Wes Climer proposed a full repeal of CON on the Senate floor today (Tuesday) and now also receives support from Democratic Senator Dick Harpootlian. The issue is expected to resurface as soon as tomorrow in the Senate. The time to engage is today. Now is the time to contact members of the [...]

April 21, 2021|Categories: 2021, Medico-Legal|Tags: |

Message from the School Health Committee

The Vaccines for Children program (VFC) provides federally purchased vaccines to approximately 50% of children in the United States, including children who are enrolled in Medicaid or who are uninsured or underinsured. CCSD is able to provide vaccines to students through VFC (thanks to Dr. Key), so that they can be up to date and eligible to attend school each year. The VFC was created in 1993, though, so it needs some updating. There’s a new federal bill called The Strengthening Vaccines for Children Program Act of 2021 (just introduced in the House as H.R. 2347, about to be introduced in the Senate) [...]

Parent Workshop – Tough Conversations – Session 6

The CCMS School Health Committee and the Charleston County School District are excited to announce Parent Workshop - Session 6 Topics to be Discussed: Medication Misuse in Teens Recognizing Depression in Adolescence Tough Conversations For More Information contact Linda Ballinger at linda_ballinger@charleston.k12.sc.us

April 14, 2021|Categories: 2021, School Health|

Statewide Virtual Be SMART Presentation

Dr. Annie Andrews, CCMS School Health Committee Member, to volunteer at statewide BeSMART Presentation on April 13th at 8pm Be SMART is a national AAP-aligned program that aims to reduce pediatric firearm injuries and deaths through adult-directed education on responsible firearm storage. You will learn how you can incorporate the Be SMART program into your practice or how to share this life-saving information with your neighbors. RSVP Here

April 6, 2021|Categories: 2021, Member Highlights, School Health|Tags: , |

The Roots of Racism and Ethical Bias in American Medicine

Time:  8:00 a.m. Thursday, March 25 Location: Zoom Livestream Only **Please Do Not Come to 300 CSB- Online Only**Streaming: www.musc.edu/gr/dom “An Introduction and Difficult Discussion.  The Roots of Racism and Ethical Bias in American Medicine” Presenter: Richard D. deShazo, MD MACP Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Billy S, Guytom Distinguished Professor University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson; Adjunct Professor of Medical Education, Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Alabama in Birmingham Learning Objectives: To familiarize physicians with the history of institutional racism in America. To familiarize physicians with the history of institutional racism in American Medicine. To [...]

March 23, 2021|Categories: 2021, General|Tags: |

2021 W. Curtis Worthington, Jr. Essay Contest Application

Essay Contest Application James H. Tolley, MD, MAT President, Waring Library Society Board

March 9, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Young Physicians|Tags: |

The Waring Historical Library-March 2021 Event Calendar

WLS 2021 March Events James H. Tolley, MD, MAT President, Waring Library Society Board

March 9, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Public Health|Tags: |

Parent workshop – Session 5 – Rescheduled

The CCMS School Health Committee and the Charleston County School District are excited to announce Parent Workshop - Session 5 Teen Anxiety and Youth Vaping will be Discussed Tough Conversations For More Information contact Linda Ballinger at linda_ballinger@charleston.k12.sc.us

March 8, 2021|Categories: 2021, School Health|

Healthlinks March/April 2021

Check us out in the March/April 2021 issue of Healthlinks DID YOU KNOW? Each issue CCMS sponsors a topic. Let Dana know of your ideas for any upcoming articles. Dana@charlestonmedicalsociety.org

March 3, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Member Highlights|Tags: |

Mental Health Resource slides from Mayor’s Wellness Committee

Annie Lintzenich Andrews MD, MSCR CCMS Liaison with the City of Charleston Wellness Committee Due to COVID-19, more individuals are seeking mental health services. Click the link below for mental health resources available throughout the tri-county area.

March 3, 2021|Categories: 2021, Covid-19, Member Highlights, Public Health|Tags: |

Commentary: Take it from pediatricians, open-carry gun law will endanger SC children

Dr. Betsy Oddo is a Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellow and a member of the CCMS School Health Committee. Read the Article

March 1, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Member Highlights, School Health|Tags: |

Black History Month Lecture Featuring Dr. Rana Hogarth

REGISTER HERE “Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the American Atlantic.” Dr. Rana Hogarth focuses on the medical and scientific constructions of race during the era of slavery and beyond. She is the author of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). She received her PhD from Yale University and currently is an associate professor at the University of Illinois in the Department of History.

January 25, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Healthcare Disparities|Tags: |

Gun locks soon to be distributed to Charleston County School District nurses

 Dr. Annie Andrews, CCMS, School Health Committee Member, in the News View Story

January 21, 2021|Categories: 2021, Member Highlights, School Health|Tags: , , |

PRESS RELEASE Black and Hispanic/Latino faculty urge communities of color to take the COVID-19 vaccine

IMPORTANT Reminder from MUSC PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES

January 14, 2021|Categories: 2021, Covid-19, General, Healthcare Disparities, Public Health|Tags: |

CCMS in the News

An SC doctors’ group banded together to crack its PPE problem. The idea caught on. Amid ongoing PPE crisis, doctor-led efforts focus on needs of smaller healthcare entities Charleston County Medical Society Forms Buying Group to Help Doctors Get Essential PPE DOCTOR-LED COLLECTIVE BUYING GROUP ACTIONPPE GIVES DENTAL PROFESSIONALS ACCESS TO NEEDED PPE

January 13, 2021|Categories: 2021, Covid-19, Marcelo Hochman MD, ppe-project|

ANNOUNCEMENT: Waring Library Society Spring 2021 Events!

WLS 2021 SPRING EVENTS James H. Tolley, MD, MAT President, Waring Library Society Board

January 7, 2021|Categories: 2021, General, Healthcare Disparities, Public Health|Tags: |

URGENT: COVID Vax for All Phase 1a HEALTHCARE WORKERS

Click the link below to schedule directly: https://mychart.musc.edu/mychart/openscheduling/SignupAndSchedule/EmbeddedSchedule?vt=11353&id=38335 Reason for visit: COVID VAX Insurance info - This is not a hard stop on the form.  Enter something. Use your mobile phone number as the contact number Take a screenshot of the appointment confirmation for your records. Bring some sort of identification that shows you are a healthcare worker (employment badge, a letter from medical practice, healthcare license), etc.  This is an honor system. -- Marcelo Hochman, MD President, CCMS

January 3, 2021|Categories: 2021, Covid-19, Public Health|Tags: , , |
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