Philadelphia Medicine Summer 2018 - 4

Philadelphia County Medical Society
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Cadence A. Kim, MD, FACS

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A Conversation with our Next
President, Max Mercado, MD

10

President Installation Dinner

12

Like Trying to Corral the Ocean...
The Daunting Task of Subduing
Philadelphia's Syphilis Outbreak

16

Department of Veterans Affairs
Expands Telehealth

18

CyberKnife on the Cutting Edge
of Radiation Oncology

PRESIDENT

Max E. Mercado, MD
PRESIDENT ELECT

Daniel T. Dempsey, MD, MBA, FACS
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Natalia Ortiz, MD, FAPA, FAPM
SECRETARY

J. Q. Michael Yu, MD, FRCPC
TREASURER

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Michael DellaVecchia, MD, PhD, FACS
Enrique Hernandez, MD
Harvey B. Lefton, MD
Henry Lin, MD
Curtis T. Miyamoto, MD
Ricardo Morgenstern, MD
Anthony M. Padula, MD, FACS
Stephen R. Permut, MD, JD
Andrew B. Roberts, MD
Anthony Rosa, MD
Dane Scantling, DO
John Vasudevan, MD

22 Physician Employment

Agreements - Key Issues
and Considerations

26 The Relationship Between
Poverty and Health
in Philadelphia

27 The Heart & Healing of

Palliative Care Providers

28 Doctors Give Back Through the
Philadelphia Medical Reserve
Corps

Danielle Verghese
FIRST DISTRICT TRUSTEE
Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, JD
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mark C. Austerberry
EDITOR
Alan J. Miceli
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30 The Two-Generational

Approach to Mothers in the
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