GLMS BOARD OF GOVERNORS
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Frank Burns, MD, PRESIDENT & KMA SECRETARY/TREASURER
Monalisa Tailor, MD, PRESIDENT-ELECT & KMA VICE SPEAKER
Brian Sosnin, DO, VICE PRESIDENT
Patricia Purcell, MD, TREASURER
Valerie Briones-Pryor, MD, SECRETARY
Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, AT-LARGE
Thomas Higgins, Jr., MD, AT-LARGE
R. Todd Hockenbury, MD, AT-LARGE
Christopher Jones, MD, AT-LARGE
Rishi Kumar, MD, AT-LARGE
Melissa Platt, MD, AT-LARGE
Bruce Scott, MD, AMA VICE SPEAKER & DELEGATE
Bob Couch, MD, KMA PRESIDENT-ELECT & AMA DELEGATE
John Roberts, MD, KMA TRUSTEE & AMA ALTERNATE DELEGATES
Eric Lydon, MD, KMA ALT. TRUSTEE
K. Thomas Reichard, MD, PRESIDENT, GLMS FOUNDATION
Sarah Moyer, MD, MPH, DIRECTOR, DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH & WELLNESS
Toni M. Ganzel, MD, MBA, DEAN, UOFL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Lewis Hargett, MD, PRESIDENT, FALLS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY
Charles Oberst, MD, SENIOR PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE CHAIR
Karyn Hascal, PRESIDENT, THE HEALING PLACE
Debi McDonald, ALLIANCE PRESIDENT
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IN THIS ISSUE
FEATURES
PHYSICIANS ON THE FRONT LINE
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE & SACRIFICE
10 BEYOND THE CLINIC | Daniel Dierfeldt, DO, FAAFP
12 TREATING THE ACTIVE DUTY AND RETIRED MILITARY PATIENT | Todd
Hockenbury, MD
14 20 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST | Michael Flynn, MD
18 FROM AIR FORCE FLIGHT SURGEON TO FAMILY MEDICINE AND PUBLIC
HEALTH | Lori Caloia, MD
21 “THIS GUY, HE’S GOT STORIES!” | James Patrick Murphy, MD
22 HOME | Brian Ferguson, DO
23 SPECIAL AIR MISSION: POLIO | Charles C. Smith, Jr. MD
27 INTERVIEW WITH NAVY CAPTAIN | James C. West, MD
DEPARTMENTS
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HONORING MY FATHER | Frank Burns, MD
30 IN REMEMBRANCE ROGER DUNCAN SALOT, MD | Kenneth Jaegers, MD
31 IN REMEMBRANCE RALPH MASON SCOTT, MD | Betty Long Scott, PhD
32 PHYSICIANS IN PRINT
34 GLMS ALLIANCE NEWS | Debi McDonald
35 REFLECTIONS: OF COMINGS AND GOINGS | Teresita Bacani-Oropilla, MD
36 DOCTORS’ LOUNGE
WAR AND OTHER WOUNDS | Mary G. Barry, MD
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Elizabeth Amin, MD
38 DR. WHO: FEATURING WILL WARD, MD | Aaron Burch
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