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Philadelphia County Medical Society
2100 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130

(215) 563-5343
www.philamedsoc.org
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Daniel T. Dempsey, MD, MBA, FACS
PRESIDENT

Cadence Kim, MD, FACS

6

The Results of the Mayor's
Opioid Task Force

16

Michael DellaVecchia, MD, PhD, FACS

9

Philadelphia Opioid Task Force
Recommendations

18

10

Opioid Task Force
Recommendations for
Physicians

11

PAMED Information and
Courses for Opioids

12
13

Equianalgesic Chart

PRESIDENT ELECT

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Max E. Mercado, MD
SECRETARY

J. Q. Michael Yu, MD, FRCPC
TREASURER

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Angel S. Angelov, MD
Enrique Hernandez, MD
Harvey B. Lefton, MD
Henry Lin, MD

Task Force Members

Ricardo Morgenstern, MD
Anthony M. Padula, MD, FACS

Anamika Saha

14

Spirited and Sometimes
Painful Debate on Opioids

John Vasudevan, MD
FIRST DISTRICT TRUSTEE
Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, JD

Mark C. Austerberry

Summer in the City

24 Health Centers

Moving from the Past to the Future

28 Trauma is as Trauma Does:

Dane Scantling, DO

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

22

Health Department Responses During
Large-Scale Public Health Emergencies

Natalia Ortiz, MD, FAPA, FAPM

Andrew B. Roberts, MD

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

26 Physicians Are Essential to Expanding

Curtis T. Miyamoto, MD

Stephen R. Permut, MD, JD

Penn's Center for Human Appearance...
How a Revolutionary Idea Found a Home

Healing Victims of Violence

30 A Conversation with Dr. Cadence Kim
32 Installation of New PCMS President
34 PCMS Awards Program
38 AMA House of Delegates Conference
39 Mark L. Tykocinski, MD,
Receives Strittmatter Award

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EDITOR

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Alan J. Miceli

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