December 17, 2019 Issue 95
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Advancing the KMA Message Across the State & Preparing for 2020
With the holidays right around the corner, I am making my last few visits throughout the state for 2019 and preparing for what promises to be an interesting session of the legislature. In just a few short months, I have had the privilege to meet with physicians and community leaders in Hyden, Hazard, Pikeville, Lexington, Louisville, Glasgow, Princeton, Morehead, Munfordville, Owingsville and Florence to discuss the various initiatives of the KMA and how important it is for us to have physician input and involvement. I have literally driven thousands of miles for the KMA since becoming President (1,000 last week alone) and I am closing out the year feeling energized about what is possible for the New Year.
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Dale Toney, M.D., Neal Moser, M.D., Nominated for KMA President,
President-Elect
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KMA has received nominations for the offices of 2020-2021 President and President-Elect.
The Lexington Medical Society (LMS) has nominated
Dale E. Toney, M.D.
, for the office of 2020 KMA President. Dr. Toney is a board certified internist in Lexington. He is employed by the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, is an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and is the Interim Division Chief of General Internal Medicine and Women’s Health. He currently serves as Vice President of the KMA.
He served as an Alternate Trustee on the KMA Board of Trustees from 2008 - 2013 and Trustee from 2013 - 2018. He served as Vice Chair in 2015 and as Chair in 2016 - 2018.
Dr. Toney served as President of LMS in 2014 and Vice President in 2001.
He was a member of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure from 2016 - 2019 and served as Chair of Panel A and Vice President in 2019.
Dr. Toney has practiced medicine for 30 years.
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The Northern Kentucky Medical Society (NKMS) has nominated
Neal Moser, M.D.,
for the office of President-Elect. Dr. Moser is a pulmonologist in Crestview Hills and is employed by St. Elizabeth Healthcare. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the KMA and has served as a Trustee since 2013.
Dr. Moser served as an Alternate Trustee on the KMA Board of Trustees from 2007 - 2014. He's served in several roles in NKMS, including President in 2002.
Dr. Moser has practiced medicine for more than 20 years.
Elections will take place as part of the 2020 KMA Annual Meeting, to be held Aug. 28-30, 2020 at the Louisville Marriott East.
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Tobacco-Free for Students Initiative Provides School Districts Across the State with New Signage
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KMA leaders have traveled to schools across the state this fall to present new campus signage to districts who have agreed to comply with the new tobacco free schools law passed during the 2019 legislative session.
Tobacco-Free for Students is a partnership with the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and the Kentucky Foundation for Medical Care. Since the law passed in April, more than 95% of Kentucky school districts have agreed to enact tobacco-free policies. However, the law did not provide for funding for schools to update their campus signage, which is where KMA and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky stepped in.
The new signs are presented free of charge and alert visitors, staff and students of the new policy, and contain the logos of both KMA and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.
KMA President Brent Wright, M.D., Public Health Commissioner and 2018 KPLI graduate Angela Dearinger, M.D., Community Connector Patrick Withrow, M.D., KMA Board Chair and Community Connector Michael Kuduk, M.D., and 2019 KPLI graduate Mark Schroer, M.D. have attended and spoken at events across the state to congratulate the districts on this decision and present the new signage. Events have so far been held in Garrard, Christian, Greenup, Lewis, Fleming, Bracken, Boone, Clark, Caldwell, Muhlenberg, Hart, Green, Bath and Rowan Counties, as well as Bowling Green Independent.
Pictured: Christian County High School and Caldwell County High School
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MSOL Julie Beck Enjoys Giving Back to Her Community
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Volunteering has always been important to Julie Beck, a third-year medical school student at the University of Louisville, where she’s serving as the medical school class of 2021 volunteer coordinator.
Beck, the first person in her family to become a physician, first realized she wanted to become a doctor during her freshman year at Ryle High School in Union, Ky.
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Snider Named Emerging Leader
KMA member
Bethany Snider, M.D.
, Chief Medical Officer Hosparus Health, has been named an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Medicine by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
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Krigger Named Foundation Endowed Chair in Urban Health Policy at UofL
KMA member
Karen W. Krigger, M.D., MEd, FAAFP, AAHIVM(S)
has been named the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Endowed Chair for Urban Health Policy at the University of Louisville. Dr. Krigger is the Director of Health Equity at the UofL School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and also is a professor with the Department of Family & Geriatric Medicine.
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