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NOVEMBER 2016

For further information about the following meetings,email tcms@tcmsok.org or call 918-743-6184

11-15-2016, 5-8 pmOSDS RSS Society MeetingTulsa Dermatology Clinic

11-16-2016, 6 pmTCMS/TCMS FOUNDATIONAnnual Meeting Crowne Plaza, 79th & Lewis

11-17-2016, 6-8 pmTulsa OB-GYN SocietyTCMS

12-1-2016, 5:30 pmGolden Oldies Holiday DinnerCrowne Plaza, 79th & Lewis

12-6-2016, 6 pmTCMS Foundation BoardTCMS

1-11-2017, 6 pmTCMS BoardTCMS

1-29-2017, 1 pmOSMA BoardOSMA

1-31-2017, 6 pmLegislative/MACRA UpdateTCMS

3-3-2017, 6 pmTCMS President’s InauguralSouthern Hills Country Club

3-11-2017CME Cruise on Royal Caribbean’sHarmony of the Seas

4-22-2017OSMA Annual Meeting &Inaugural for Dr. TaubmanTulsa Hyatt Regency

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8…LET’S DON’T MISS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE!

Did you know that Oklahoma general voter turnout ranked 48th of the 50 states in the 2012 presidential election. And that the trend in our turnout for presidential elections is headed the wrong direction… we ranked 44th in 2008, 37th in 2004, and 30th in 2000.

The Kirkpatrick Foundation and League of Women Voters have created a highly informative and nonpartisan Voter Guide for this year’s presidential election. You can help create a more engaged and informed electorate for this year’s election by promoting the mobile friendly Oklahoma Voter Guide website.

www.okvoterguide.com

Please share by email and/or your personal social media channels. And if you are in a position to do so, please share with your staff or your stakeholders via your organization’s social media (again, this is nonpartisan information and does not promote any one candidate or political position).

Thanks for your help strengthening our great Republic!

ANNUAL MEETING, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 6:00 P.M., CROWNE PLAZA

TCMS members and guests are invited to attend this meeting. TCMS President, Peter Aran, M.D. will provide an update on Macra as well as the report of

the medical society and the foundation.

Our guest speakers will address the following:

Gerard Clancy, President, University of Tulsa“After the 14-Year Difference in Life Expectancy:

Tulsa’s Next Big Health Initiative”

William Paiva, Ph.D., CHSI Executive Director, Oklahoma State University

“Health Data Analytics…Great…Exactly What We Need…More Data”

The slate of directors and officers will be presented to the membership. If you plan to attend please email tcms@tcmsok.org. There is no charge to

attend the meeting.

THANK YOU TO THE PRIVATE BANK AT BANK OF OKLAHOMA FOR GENEROUSLY

SUPPORTING THIS MEETING

Gerard Clancy, M.D.

William Paiva, Ph.D., CHSI

PRESIDENT’S LETTER Peter P. Aran, M.D.Good news about two things to share with you!

My wife and I often comment, but not as much as our kids, that the evening news always seems to be bad news. And combining the presidential news stories it is even worse. But not here, not now. Read on for some uplifting news followed by old fashion good news.

Let’s start with the uplifting stuff. Last month we wrote about the nearly impossible task the scholarship committee found itself faced with trying to choose 10 students from a candidate pool of 58. We told you about several of the students that were really impressive but still were not able to be offered a scholarship. Since then we had the scholarship dinner and I want to share with you some memories of that uplifting night. The awards were presented to the students by leadership from both of our medical schools. Dr. James Herman, the Dean of the OU Tulsa School of Community Medicine, and Dr. Meredith Davison, the Associative Dean for Academic Affairs at OU Tulsa congratulated the OU students. Dr. Bill Pettit, the Provost and Executive Dean of the OSU School of Medicine and Dr. Robin Dyer, the OSU Associate Dean for Academic Affairs presented the awards to the OSU students.

Brittany Cross was one of the TCMS President’s Award winners. She is the former OSU student body president and chaired several national committees the past several years. Her belief that “it is important to be engaged and improve the community you serve” is one we can all agree with and there is little doubt but that she will continue to do just that.

John Carradini is the second President’s Award recipient. He was chosen by his OU Tulsa peers to represent his class on the TCMS student resident committee and was elected by other student delegates to the AMA to represent our region at the AMA national meetings. One of several Eagle Scouts to be honored that evening he is also working for his master’s degree in public health while going to medical school.

Mohamed Eslam was awarded the Charles James Bate Memorial Award. Mo went to graduate school prior to medical school and brings expertise related to identifying social determinants of health in caring for our patients and families. This 4.0 GPA pre-medical and graduate student “dreams of having a practice where he can act as a quarterback for his patients and to apply his skills as both a clinician and leader to help his community”. This award was made even more special by the presence of Dr. Bate’s daughter Elizabeth Bate Randall at the dinner.

Brandi Nicole Gallaher won the Betty Louise Conrad Memorial Award. Brandi won multiple academic awards in college where she had A’s in every course except having one B. All the student winners, like Brandi, were great scholars but she had another thing in common with many of the students’ honored that night in that she has been active as a medical missionary in Costa Rica and Uganda, Those experiences helped her appreciate how fortunate we are to have the health capabilities here in the U.S. that others in the world could only dream of having. She was also elected by her classmates as an OU Student Council representative.

Michael Money was awarded the TCMS Foundation Community Service Award. This OSU junior is one of the top 5 students in his class. Both he and his hero, his wife, are teachers and understand the significance and meaning of service. His message to all of us is that “being someone’s physician is the most rewarding gift anyone can bestow you.” So those days when you feel beat, maybe almost exhausted, remember this thought and value that gift that we have been given.

Colleen Parish won the other TCMS Foundation Service Award. This senior medical student at OU Oklahoma City has held multiple student leadership positions including president of her student government. Even as a medical student she has been active in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement which is felt by many to be the most influential healthcare quality organization in the country. She has made time to volunteer at multiple free medical clinics. She wrote that “she loved all her patients, even the grumpy ones, and took ownership of their care and felt pride in doing so.” So add that thought to Michael Money’s when you are feeling burned out or frustrated.

Page Neaterour won the OU Dean’s Award. Page grew up in rural Illinois and was drawn to OU Tulsa because of the orientation of the school. Her grades were excellent allowing her to be accepted despite her out of state residence. But that was not the biggest strength or gift she brought west to Oklahoma. She has been another of the missionary students I mentioned earlier. She has served in Panama and Bolivia. The experiences were so rewarding that she took a year off from her medical studies to earn her Master’s in Public Health. Her missionary work was so impressive that she was awarded the US Public Health Service’s Excellence Award. The CDC wants her to train there after she graduates. And we want her to practice in Oklahoma after she trains at CDC.

TCMS and OSMA hosted a social for OU and OSU medical students on October 26th at Fassler Hall. 145 medical students joined us and had the opportunity to visit with members of the leadership team of both organizations. A good time (and good beer) was enjoyed by all! Pictured are Daniel Huff, MSII, Mike Weisz, TCMS, President-Elect, and Matt Abbott, MSII.TCMS members who are willing to serve as a mentor for medical students please contact Mona Whitmire at 918.743.6184 or email mona@tcmsok.org. TCMS President, Dr. Peter Aran said, “mentorship is one of the most important connections practicing physicians can make with our future colleagues. My personal experience is that we learn as much from the students as we teach them.”

Over the past 30 years Todd Brockman, M.D. (pictured on the right) has practiced ophthalmology and held numerous leadership positions including TCMS President, TCMS Foundation Board Director, OSMA Board of Trustees Chair, OSMA President, OSMA Delegate, AMA Delegate as well as positions with the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In his spare time, he is an avid runner and a cyclist. At this point in his distinguished career he wants to spend less time in meetings and more time outdoors pursuing his athletic endeavors when he is not practicing ophthalmology. In October Dr. Brockman and his wife Blair participated in the Huntsman World Games in Snow Canyon, Utah. Dr. Brockman won 3 Silver medals in the Time Trial and Road Race (3 mile/1000 ft gain). Blair won 3 Gold medals, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze in Swimming. Competition and fitness is definitely a family affair…both have qualified for the World Master Games in Auckland, NZ next Spring. Congratulations to Todd and Blair, we wish you godspeed as you continue competing.

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Emily Turner was awarded the OSU Dean’s Award. As a pre-medical student she failed to earn a B, C, D, or F in any course. As a medical student she has still “failed” to earn anything but A’s in her first three years. As truly impressive as that is it does not compare to her non-student life story. As a two year old she almost drowned and was in a coma for 6 days. She states that “medicine saved my life.” And fortunately she was saved since later on as a teenager one of her folks developed cancer and as they helped her fight back as a two year old she helped her parent beat cancer by, as she described, “pouring every drop of my existence into her comfort.” And the giving didn’t stop with her family, she has been a missionary to both Cambodia and Vietnam. And her giving-back will continue during her residency in Emergency Medicine and in practice after that. So a special thank you to her folks and the doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists that saved her life years ago.

Olivia Shadid won one of the Tulsa Surgical Society’s Awards. This former National Merit Winner from Cascia Hall was both a pre-med and theater major in college. Along with the double major she was yet another of the students to be a medical missionary as well as a volunteer at multiple clinics for the disadvantaged. She stated that “I am committed to a life as a physician to treat and advocate for the underserved” and that “I want to be radically present with patients and offer my personal presence as a salve to their suffering.” So in this day in age of RVUs and administrators “suggesting” that you see more patients more quickly think of this student’s dream/hope of being “radically present with her patients” and share that feedback with that someone trying to tell you to be less than radically present with our patients.

Garrett Waller was the recipient of the second Tulsa Surgical Society’s Award. He is another former Eagle Scout who has since become involved in multiple leadership activities. All of his life he has dreamed of being a physician and this second year OU Oklahoma City medical student hopes to follow in his dad’s footsteps as an anesthesiologist. For all of us who have been fortunate to have had children I bet that none of us feels that we spent too much time with our kids. Like Michael Money telling us that his wife is his hero it can’t help but touch some fibers in you as you read this to hear that Garrett considers his physician father as a hero. Like Emily Turner and all of these award winners I described here will help thousands of patients and families over the next decades as they “give back” the “gift” that we all have been given by our patients and families. So too every one of you reading this, despite the sacrifices away from your own family while practicing our vocation, hopefully have children like Garrett who at the end of the day understand that and appreciates you. We thank you too.

Now while not nearly as personal or touching as the above good news I do want to share with you some recent news out of CMS about MACRA. We have talked about this in previous months and are still awaiting the final regulations that will be out in November. But new in the last couple of weeks is that CMS has listened to the concerns and feedback expressed by over 1000 physicians and organizations related to this new legislation and is making some substantial changes. While it appears to be still set to go into effect January of 2017 no penalties will occur the first year as long as we choose one of four options. We will report on that in detail after the final regulations are announced sometime in the next several weeks so stay tuned for that information.

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