Volume 8 | Issue 4 September 2020

The Latest News and Updates from the SED

Dear Colleagues: We are moving into the Fall of 2020 and we now know that the AMA Interim meeting will be a virtual meeting. Internal discussions are underway to make sure all goes smoothly with the SED. The SED Candidate Selection Committee will interview our prospective AMA election candidates as usual, but by Zoom this year. Full details and schedules will be in our routine pre-Convention eNewsletter in October.  Your SED Board will be holding upcoming meetings.  In this issue we continue our September tradition of highlighting SED members who work for us in/on AMA offices, Boards, Councils and Committees. Please thank them for their service. We continue the links to the AMA COVID-19 resource center for physicians and the CDC resource pages on COVID-19. We include a special article from Dr Clay Hays, President of the Mississippi State Medical Association about the change of state flags in Mississippi.  Rarely our members are honored by other AMA Delegations; and so, we include a link to the Massachusetts Medical Society making an award to Dr Coombs of Virginia. We include a “Beyond the Stethoscope” article on the history of Christopher Columbus. We offer congratulations to Dr Bensema of Kentucky who has stepped up to help as the Infectious Disease Branch Manager for Kentucky, working under Dr Stack. During this time of COVID and relative isolation, it is important we continue to support our AMA, as their work is never done, and now more important than ever, as our voices in DC are diminished by travel restrictions. Please make sure YOU and your States are promoting AMA memberships and renewals; see https://member.ama-assn.org/join-renew/member-search. Enjoy and see you, one way or another, soon. Claudette Dalton, MD, Chair John Poole, MD, Chair-elect Bill Clark, MD, Immediate Past Chair Clay Hays, MD, Vice Chair Stephen Imbeau, MD, SED Newsletter Editor

Southeastern Delegation Members Who Serve in the AMA (Click on name for more information)

Confronting COVID-19 with Urgency for Physicians and our Patients  A Message from Drs. Harmon and Harris

Board of Trustees

Gerald E. Harmon, MD President-elect

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA Immediate Past President

Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH Immediate Past Chair

Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD Secretary

Bruce A. Scott, MD Speaker

Willarda V. Edwards, MD, MBA Board of Trustees

Scott Ferguson, MD Board of Trustees

Ilse R. Levin, DO, MPH & TM Board of Trustees

Harris Pastides, PhD, MPH Board of Trustees

Members of the Council on Constitution & Bylaws (CCB)

Madelyn E. Butler, MD Chair

Kevin C. Reilly, MD

Members of the Council on Medical Education

Liana Puscas, MD, MHS Chair

Niranjan V. Rao, MD Chair-elect

Sharon P. Douglas, MD

Member of the Council on Medical Service

Alice Coombs, MD

Members of the Council Long Range Planning and Development

Shannon Pryor, MD Chair

Priya S. Kantesaria Medical Student Member

Member of the Council on Legislation

VijayaLakshmi Appareddy, MD

Member of the Council on Science & Public Health

Padmini Ranasinghe, MD, FACP, FACPM, MPH

Members of AMPAC Board of Directors

Stephen A. Imbeau, MD Secretary

Benjamin Z. Galper, MD

Peter J. Carniol, MD, FACS

Dr. Alice Coombs is honored by Massachusetts Medical Society with its Woman Physician Leadership Award  Dr. Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, longtime physician at South Shore Hospital and a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2020 recipient of the Woman Physician Leadership Award, an honor recognizing outstanding leadership and contributions to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician.  Continue reading here.

It's Time J. Clay Hays, Jr., MD Vice Chair, SED Reprinted with permission of The Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association; first published July 2020 edition Growing up as a kid in Jackson, Mississippi, I used to love to go to Ole Miss football games to watch my beloved Rebels play. Witnessing players like Archie Manning, Norris Weese, John Fourcade, and Buford Magee running all over the field was exciting. I can vividly remember the crowd cheering and waving their confederate flags when my childhood heroes would make a great play or score a touchdown. The whole spectacle of the event including listening to the band, watching the crowds wave their flags, and the team playing was exhilarating, uplifting, and contagious. Those great memories of fun, friends, family and football are something I will treasure and never forget! It was just a game to me.  Dr. Hays' complete article can be found here.

Beyond the Stethoscope  Take a deep breath and study the real Christopher Columbus Stephen A. Imbeau, MD Editor, SED Newsletter Reprinted with permission of SCNOW.com Christopher Columbus would be dismayed, confused, embarrassed and angry watching Americans, particularly the young, turn against him for reasons that would make no sense to him. Columbus viewed himself as the discoverer of a New World who suffered years of ridicule seeking to finance a watery path westward to Japan and China. He saw himself as sailor, explorer, merchant, and missionary — to him, all noble pursuits and honorable attributes. But not only today, he also suffered defeat in his own time. He had no political skill and even his own young priest, wanting his governor’s job, turned against him, forcing the admiral’s return to Spain in chains in 1500. Despite his sailing also to South America and Central America, the new continents were named for another Italian, Amerigo Vespucci, not Columbus. Dr. Imbeau's full article can be read here.

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