KMA Files Motion to Intervene in Lawsuit Challenging Medical Review Panels

July 25, 2017 Issue 37

KMA Files Motion to Intervene

in Lawsuit Challenging Medical

Review Panels

The Kentucky Medical Association has filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 4, which established Medical Review Panels to evaluate medical malpractice claims before they can proceed in court.

KMA was among several health care stakeholders that supported the legislation and worked with legislators to ensure it would pass constitutional muster.

UK Physician Phillip Chang
to Discuss Opioid Misuse Reduction

In 2015, more people died from a drug overdose than in motor vehicle accidents, and many of those overdoses involved opioids. As a trauma surgeon, Phillip Chang, M.D., chief medical officer at University of Kentucky Health Care, deals with those issues every day.

Dr. Chang will talk about UK’s experience with its opioid stewardship committee during the Leadership in Action session, “Take the Lead in Solving the Opioid Epidemic,” Aug. 26 during the 2017 KMA Annual Meeting. Dr. Chang’s presentation is part of an afternoon of discussion on opioids that qualifies for the 4.5 credits mandated to fulfill requirements for House Bill 1.

Community Connector

Medicine Now ‘On Again’ for Monalisa Tailor … in More Ways than One

Monalisa Tailor, M.D., had an on again, off again interest in medicine growing up.

Dr. Tailor, an internal medicine physician at Norton Community Medical Associates: Barret, had targeted a career in cardiology when she was a high school student in Bowling Green.

Then her beloved grandmother, Dhanu Tailor, began experiencing cardiac problems. “I didn’t know much about medicine at the time,” she said, adding she questioned whether it was wise to put her grandmother through some of the prescribed treatments. “It made me question whether I wanted to do medicine at all.”

A Young Leader’s “Dream
of a Better Future”

We talked about being a leader in the June Kentucky Health eNews. Leadership can begin at any stage of your life. You don’t have to wait until you are old to do good for the community around you. Let’s look at one of the recent KMA graduates of the Medical School Outreach Leadership (MSOL) program.

Recognizing the Signs of Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma and Knowing What to Do

In 2007, Kentucky led the nation’s death rate due to child maltreatment. In 2015, Kentucky was second in the nation for child abuse cases.

“There’s been a study on children who’ve died of physical abuse and a lot of those children had been seen by some type of medical provider within two weeks of their death,” said Christina Howard, M.D., FAAFP, a child abuse pediatrician and chief of the division of forensic medicine at the University of Kentucky.

MEMBER NEWS

Thornbury Meets with

White House Officials

William Thornbury, M.D., KMA member, met with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and others to share his experiences on how health care laws have affected his practice and patients.

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Moyer Named Louisville

Metro Health Director

KMA member Sarah Moyer, M.D., was recently named director of the Department of Public Health and Wellness for Louisville Metro Government.

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