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MAy 2020
Volume 116 • Number 10
Cover Story
David Wroten
Executive Vice President
Penny Henderson
Executive Assistant
Journal Advertising
Nicole Richards
Managing Editor
Laura Haywood
Membership and Communcications
Specialist
EDITORIAL BOARD
Appathurai Balamurugan, MD, DrPH, MPH
Family & Preventative Medicine/Public
Health
Tim Paden, MD
Family Medicine
Sandra Johnson, MD
Dermatology
Issam Makhoul, MD
Oncology
Naveen Patil, MD, MHSA, MA, FIDSA
Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease
Benjamin Tharian, MD, MRCP, FACP, FRACP
Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist
Robert Zimmerman, MD
Urology
Tobias Vancil, MD
Internal Medicine
Darrell Over, MD
Family Medicine
EDITOR EMERITUS
Alfred Kahn Jr., MD (1916-2013)
ARKANSAS MEDICAL SOCIETY
2019-2020 OFFICERS
Chad Rodgers, MD, Little Rock
President
Dennis Yelvington, MD, Stuttgart
Immediate Past President
Danny Wilkerson, MD, Little Rock
President Elect
Seth Barnes, MD, Hot Springs
Vice President
George Conner, MD, Forrest City
Secretary
Bradley Bibb, MD, Jonesboro
Treasurer
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Volume 116 • Number 10
The Value
of AMS
Membership
Casey L. Penn 248
Commentary 244
Courage Under Fire
Tim Paden, MD
Arkansas Medical Society 246
AMS Benefits, Inc. 247
2020 BUDGET
Annual Report to the Arkansas Medical Society
Stephen Magie, MD, Chairman of the Board
AFMC: A Closer Look
252
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Advocacy in Arkansas
Elizabeth Cleveland, ABD, CCC-SLP; David Deere, LCSW;
Angela Kyzer, BA; Shaneca Smith, BSB, RN, CNOR(E)
The State of Public Health in Arkansas in 2019 254
Report of the Arkansas Medical Foundation 256
Minutes of the Arkansas Medical Society 258
Medical Education Foundation for Arkansas 260
Arkansas State Medical Board 2019 Annual Report 262
Nathaniel Smith, MD, MPH
Board of Trustees Meeting
Board of Trustees Meeting
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