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John Aalbers, MD, Rolando Abada, MD, Geoffrey Abell, MD, Jean-Jacques Abitbol, MD, Amy Abola, MD, Reid Abrams, MD, Andrew Accardi, MD, Roger Acheatel, MD, Robert Adamson, MD, Thomas Adamson, MD, Dominick Addario, MD, Mark Adler, MD, Loubaba Adlouni, MD, William Adsit, MD, Robert Afra, MD, Emelya Ahadian, MD, Farshad Ahadian, MD, Imran<br />

Ahmed, MD, Antoine Aizarani-Hallak, MD, Mahyar Ajir, DO, Behrooz Akbarnia, MD, Jose Alanis-Amezcua, MD, Sassan Alavi, MD, Gregory Alberton, MD, Michael Albo, MD, Nancy Aldana, MD, Peter Aldrich, MD, Neil Alex, MD, John Alexander, MD, Mary Alexander, MD, Jadwiga Alexiewicz, MD, Kousay Al-Kourainy, MD, John Alksne, MD, John Allen, MD, Neville Alleyne,<br />

MD, Steven Allsing, MD, Mumtaz Almansour, MD, Lance Altenau, MD, Dennis Alters, MD, James Amberg, MD, Stanley Ambo, MD, Roy Amir, MD, Corinne Ancona-Young, DO, Brian Anderson, MD, Hans Anderson, MD, Kenneth Anderson, DO, Ana Andia, MD, Gregor Andree, MD, Steven Andree, MD, Janna Andrews, MD, Niren Angle, MD, John Anshus, MD, Julian Anthony,<br />

MD, Regg Antle, MD, Jorge Arce, MD, Christian Archambault, MD, Gerard Arcilla, MD, Rodolfo Arcovedo, MD, Georges Argoud, MD, Angelito Arias, MD, Rosa Arias, MD, Octavio Armas, MD, C. Armstrong, MD, John Arnold, MD, Lori Arnold, MD, Frederic Arsham, MD, Julie Aspiras, MD, Lynette Asselin, DO, Pooya Ataii, MD, Charles Athill, MD, Schubert Atiga, MD,<br />

Deborah Atkin, MD, Todd Austin, MD, Roy Avalos, MD, Marta Awdykovych, MD, Larry Ayers, MD, Madelynn Azar-Cavanagh, MD, John Backman, MD, Ramin Bagheri, MD, Afshin Bahador, MD, Timothy Bailey, MD, Mohammed Bailony, MD, Philip Bajo, MD, Roy Bak, MD, Lori Baker, MD, Isaac Bakst, MD, Katherine Balazy, MD, Steven Balch, MD, Donald Balfour, MD, Scott<br />

Ball, MD, Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, MD, Gregory Balourdas, MD, Ali Banaie, MD, Pushpendu Banerjee, MD, Michael Bannach, MD, Sam Baradarian, MD, Richard Barager, MD, Joel Baranski, MD, Isabel Baratta, MD, David Barba, MD, Teresita Barbadillo, MD, Francis Barber, MD, Michael Barker, MD, Robert Barmeyer, MD, Dave Barnett, MD, Robert Barone, MD, Robert<br />

Barr, MD, Frank Barrack, MD, Hugo Barrera, MD, Robert Barron, MD, Theresa Bartolome, MD, Bradley Bartos, MD, Scott Barttelbort, MD, William Basuk, MD, Douglas Bates, MD, James Bates, MD, Rosalyn Baxter-Jones, MD, Hamed Bayat, MD, C. Bayne, MD, Gerard Bazile, MD, David Bazzo, MD, Clyde Beck, MD, Ellen Beck, MD, Matthew Becker, MD, Luis Bedoya, MD,<br />

Diane Bedrosian, MD, Albert Behrend, MD, Terry Behrend, MD, Bruce Bekkar, MD, Bill Bell, MD, Diogo Belo, MD, Peter Belott, MD, Julian Bendelstein, MD, Frank Bender, MD, Christopher Bengs, MD, Alicia Benjamin, MD, John Bennett, MD, Michael Bennett, MD, Marsha Benoni, MD, Marvin Benson, MD, Christian Bentley, MD, Joel Berchin, MD, Michael Berent, MD,<br />

John Bergan, MD, Joel Berger, MD, John Berger, MD, Paulo Berger, MD, David Bergman, MD, Peter Berkman, MD, Jeffrey Bernicker, MD, Joel Bernstein, MD, Leonard Bernstein, MD, Paul Bernstein, MD, Stanley Besser, MD, <strong>San</strong>gita Bhasin, MD, Prakash Bhatia, MD, Anthony Bianchi, MD, Robert Bickerton, MD, Mohamed Bidair, MD, Perry Binder, MD, Ulrika Birgersdotter-<br />

Green, MD, Gary Birnbaum, MD, Shawn Bissonnette, MD, Robert Bjork, MD, Kris Bjornson, MD, Jennifer Black, MD, Arthur Blain, MD, Gary Blake, MD, Daniel Blanchard, MD, Gregory Blaschke, MD, Eric Blau, MD, Duane Blickenstaff, MD, Genevieve Bloom, MD, Andrew Blumenfeld, MD, David Bodkin, MD, John Bodnar, MD, Lawrence Bogle, MD, Michael Bogue, MD, P.<br />

Bohart, MD, Theresa Bohun, MD, Susan Boiko, MD, Mark Boiskin, MD, John Bokosky, MD, Douglas Bolitho, MD, Gregg Bolotin, MD, Sidney Bolter, MD, Robert Bonakdar, MD, Michael Bonin, MD, Gary Boone, MD, David Borecky, MD, David Botta, MD, Michael Bouvet, MD, Bruce Bower, MD, Hilary Bowers, MD, William Bowman, MD, Patrick Bownes, MD, James Boyd, MD,<br />

Jane Boyd, MD, Franklin Boyer, MD, Sherry Braheny, MD, Bhoomi Brahmbhatt, MD, Milan Brandon, MD, Margaret Brannigan, MD, Thomas Brannigan, MD, Margaret Branscom, MD, Edward Brantz, MD, Richard Braun, MD, Ira Braverman, MD, Shari Brazinsky, MD, Terrance Breen, MD, David Brenner, MD, Robert Brenner, MD, Adam Breslow, MD, Daniel Bressler, MD,<br />

Scot Brewster, MD, Stephen Bridge, MD, Charles Bridges, MD, James Brinkman, MD, Sonja Brion, MD, Todd Broberg, MD, Christine Brody, MD, John Bronson, MD, George Brooker, DO, H. Brooks, MD, Barry Broomberg, MD, Abraham Broudy, MD, Richard Brower, MD, Daniel Brown, MD, Kenneth Brown, MD, Leah Brown, MD, Richard Brown, MD, Scott Brown, MD,<br />

Stuart Brown, MD, Barry Browne, MD, Kristin Brownell, MD, Steven Brozinsky, MD, Michael Brucker, MD, Robert Brucker, MD, James Bruffey, MD, Kevin Brumund, MD, David Brumwell, MD, Mathew Brunson, MD, Robert Brunst, MD, Richard Buccigross, MD, David Buccigrossi, MD, Maurice Buchbinder, MD, Wendy Buchi, MD, Gary Buckholz, MD, David Buckley, MD, C.<br />

Bucko, MD, Charlene Buechner, MD, Donald Buehler, MD, Can Bui, MD, Kim Bui, MD, Anatoly Bulkin, MD, Anthony Bull, MD, Robert Bullock, MD, Alexandra Bunyak, MD, Colleen Buono, MD, Duane Buringrud, MD, Craig Burrows, MD, Richard Burruss, MD, Margaret Burzynski, MD, James Bush, MD, Robert Bushman, MD, Richard Butcher, MD, Michael Butera, MD, Dennis<br />

Butler, MD, Philip Butler, MD, Kimberly Butterwick, MD, Jeffrey Buyse, MD, Antonio Cabinian, MD, Phillip Cacheris, MD, Dori Jo Cage, MD, James Cage, MD, Daniel Calac, MD, Juan Calderon, MD, Chanelle Calhoun, MD, Kevin Calhoun, MD, Thomas Calkins, MD, Charles Callery, MD, Benjamin Camacho, MD, David Campbell, MD, John Campbell, MD, K. Campbell, MD,<br />

Edgar Canada, MD, Mark Cannon, MD, Patricia Cantrell, MD, Timothy Canty, MD, Eleni Capetanakis, MD, Michael Capozza, MD, Carrie Cardenas, MD, Hector Cardenas, MD, Patrick Carey, MD, William Carley, MD, Brian Carlos, MD, Stephen Carlson, MD, Kenneth Carr, MD, James Carry, MD, John Carson, MD, Latisa Carson, MD, Stephen Carson, MD, Christopher Cary,<br />

MD, Anne Casey, MD, John Casey, MD, David Castillejos, MD, Maria Castillejos, MD, Jorge Castro, MD, Valerian Catanzarite, MD, Noli Cava, MD, Lynette Cederquist, MD, Stephen Center, MD, Oscar Cepero, MD, Daniel Cepin, MD, William Ceretto, MD, Carol Ceriani, MD, Elizabeth Cerrone, DO, James Cevallos, MD, Lida Chaipat, MD, Roman Cham, MD, Henry Chambers,<br />

MD, Ned Chambers, MD, Joseph Chammas, MD, Sabah Chammas, MD, Candace Chan, MD, Edmond Chan, MD, Theodore Chan, MD, Natasha Chandanani, MD, Bernard Chang, MD, David Chang, MD, Douglas Chang, MD, Helen Chang, MD, Irene Chang, MD, Weiling Chang, MD, Wun-Ling Chang, MD, Colleen Channick, MD, Richard Channick, MD, David Chao, MD, Edward<br />

Chao, DO, Jeffrey Chao, MD, Bart Chapman, MD, William Chapman, MD, Martin Charlat, MD, Paul Chasan, MD, Nicole Chauche, MD, Cesar Chavez, MD, Silverio Chavez, MD, Alberto Chavira, MD, Bryan Chen, MD, Connie Chen, MD, Fei Chen, MD, Jian Chen, MD, Ying Chen, MD, <strong>San</strong>dry Chendra, MD, Van Cheng, MD, Irene Chennell, MD, Mark Chenven, MD, Bradley<br />

Chesler, MD, Charles Chiang, MD, Larry Chiang, MD, Homer Chin, MD, Susanne Ching, MD, Raymond Chinn, MD, Thomas Chippendale, MD, Christopher Chisholm, MD, Anthony Chong, MD, Neil Choplin, MD, Emily Chou, MD, Eric Chou, MD, Susanna Chou, MD, Man-Hung Chow, MD, Ross Christensen, MD, Louis Christiansen, MD, Cherie Chu, MD, Neelima Chu, MD,<br />

Patricia Chu, MD, Kenneth Chung, MD, George Cierny, MD, Branislav Cizmar, MD, Brian Clay, MD, Nancy Clementino, MD, Douglas Clements, MD, Robert Clifford, MD, Frederick Close, MD, David Cloyd, MD, John Clune, MD, Steve Cochrane, MD, Daniel Coden, MD, Alan Cohen, MD, Edward Cohen, MD, Elaine Cohen, MD, Gary Cohen, MD, Joshua Cohen, MD, Robyn<br />

Cohen, MD, Steven Cohen, MD, Stuart Cohen, MD, Raul Coimbra, MD, Peter Colaprete, MD, Edward Colby, MD, Lori Coleman, MD, Clifford Colwell, MD, Roderick Comunale, MD, William Connell, MD, Julius Conner, MD, Caroline Connor, MD, Colleen Connor, MD, Alan Conrad, MD, Kevin Considine, DO, Marcus Contardo, MD, Dwight Cook, MD, Glenn Cook, MD, James<br />

Cooper, MD, Lawrence Cooper, MD, Andrew Cooperman, MD, Harold Copans, MD, Paul Corbett, MD, Miguel Cordoba, MD, Fred Corey, MD, Paul Corey, MD, Todd Cornett, MD, Frank Corona, MD, Adaline Corrin, MD, William Cory, MD, Bard Cosman, MD, Dennis Costello, MD, James Costello, MD, Frank Coufal, MD, Dennis Coughlin, MD, Michael Couris, MD, Larry Cousins,<br />

MD, Richard Coutts, MD, Irma Covarrubias-Lugo, MD, L. Cracroft, MD, Sheryl Cramer, MD, Marjorie Crews, MD, Terrence Crouch, MD, Donna Crowley, MD, Michael Crucitt, MD, Franklin Crystal, MD, Rafael Cuellar, MD, Roberto Cueva, MD, Daniel Cullan, MD, Chrysten Cunningham, DO, Richard Cunningham, MD, Robert Cunningham, MD, Anthony Cuomo, MD, Violeta<br />

Curbelo, MD, Edward Curley, MD, Perrin Curran, MD, Thomas Curtin, MD, Guy Curtis, MD, John Cutler, MD, Gregory Czer, MD, Bashar Dabbas, MD, Rhodel Dacanay, MD, Victor Dalforno, MD, Brian Daly, MD, John Daly, MD, Joseph Daly, MD, Imad Dandan, MD, Shahram Daneshmand, MD, Michael Danielson, MD, Raymond Dann, MD, Flora Danque, MD, Pamela Danque,<br />

MD, Iyabo Daramola, MD, Douglas Darlin, MD, Brian Datnow, MD, Paul Dato, MD, Anna David, MD, Erin David, MD, Tal David, MD, Stuart Davidson, MD, Terence Davidson, MD, William Davidson, MD, James Davies, MD, Jose Davila, MD, Cynthia Davis, MD, Daniel Davis, MD, Ronald Davis, MD, Gail Dawson, MD, Carlos De Carvalho, MD, Chrystal De Freitas, MD, Frederick<br />

De La Vega, MD, Dereck De Leon, MD, Joseph De Luca, MD, Paul Dean, MD, Marvalyn DeCambre, MD, Andrew Deemer, MD, Kevin Deitel, MD, Jorge Del Aguila, MD, Patrick Delaney, MD, Giacomo DeLaria, MD, George Delgado, MD, Anthony DeMaria, MD, Walter Dembitsky, MD, Elena Dembo-Smeaton, MD, Peter Dendel, MD, Caroline Dennis, MD, Andrew Dennish, MD,<br />

Frantz Derenoncourt, MD, Daniel DeRoo, MD, <strong>San</strong>dhya Desai, MD, Taddese Desta, MD, John Detwiler, MD, Susan Detwiler, MD, Asha Devereaux, MD, Christopher Devereaux, MD, Jenny Devitt, MD, Kelly Dewitt, MD, Joel Diamant, MD, Philip Diamond, MD, Phillip Dickinson, MD, Peter Dietze, MD, Thomas Diggs, MD, Layla Dipp, MD, Howard Dittrich, MD, Kent Diveley,<br />

MD, Luan Do, MD, Douglas Dobecki, MD, Marek Dobke, MD, David Dockweiler, MD, Larry Dodge, MD, John Doemeny, MD, Joni Doherty, MD, Sretenka Dokich, MD, Jennifer Dolby, MD, Elena Dolgonos, MD, G. Dominguez, MD, Adam Dorin, MD, Kristi Dove, MD, David Dowling, MD, Sharon Dreeben, MD, Rolf Drinhaus, MD, Steven Drosman, MD, Brent Drouin, MD, Pingfeng<br />

Du, MD, Mary Du Quette, MD, Craig Duck, MD, Norman Duerbeck, MD, Bridgette Duggan, MD, Robert Dukes, MD, James Dunford, MD, Janet Dunlap, MD, Renee Dupont, MD, Timothy Dupont, MD, John Duque, MD, Susan Duthie, MD, Kefah Dwabe, MD, Dan Dworsky, MD, Jeffrey Dysart, MD, David Easter, MD, Jennifer Eastlack, MD, Robert Eastlack, MD, A. Eastman,<br />

MD, Colette Eastman, DO, Thomas Eastman, DO, Jeffrey Eaton, MD, James Eckstein, MD, Steven Edelman, MD, Ronald Edelson, MD, David Edwards, MD, Russell Edwards, MD, Bjorn Eek, MD, Harris Effron, MD, Marc Effron, MD, John Einck, MD, Daniel Einhorn, MD, Lawrence Eisenhauer, MD, Marcia Elfenbaum, MD, Margaret Elizondo, MD, Joan Elkins, MD, Alan Elliott,<br />

MD, D. Ellis, MD, Vivian Ellis, DO, Harry Ellison, MD, Barry Elswick, MD, Larry Emdur, DO, Steven Emmet, MD, Chor Eng, MD, Richard Engel, MD, H. Engelhorn, MD, Russell Engevik, MD, Tricia Enyedy, MD, Joseph Epstein, MD, Mohammad Erfani, MD, Christine Eros, MD, James Esch, MD, Michael Essex, MD, Elaheh Etedali, DO, Karl Evelyn, MD, William Eves, MD, Kace<br />

Ezzet, MD, George Fadda, MD, Laura Fagerlund, MD, Alvin Faierman, MD, Leon Fajerman, MD, Regis Fallon, MD, Sabrina Falquier, MD, Jafar Farnam, MD, Darren Farnesi, MD, Melanie Farrell, MD, Thomas Farrell, MD, Reuben Farris, MD, Richard Fassett, MD, James Fawcett, MD, Peter Fedullo, MD, Katherine Feinstein, DO, Steven Feitelberg, MD, Gregory Feld, MD,<br />

Ronald Feldman, MD, <strong>San</strong>dy Feldman, MD, Michael Fenn, MD, Mark Fenster, MD, Douglas Fenton, MD, Michael Feren, MD, Aliya Ferouz-Colborn, MD, Rebecca Ferrini, MD, Frank Ferris, MD, Adam Fierer, MD, Nancy Fierro, MD, Raymond Fink, MD, Solomon Finkelstein, MD, John Finkenberg, MD, Joseph Fiore, MD, Keith Fischer, MD, Brock Fisher, MD, Elena Fishman,<br />

MD, Charles Fitch, MD, Donald Fithian, MD, Linda Fitts, MD, Thomas Flanagan, MD, Larry Flickinger, MD, Frank Flint, MD, Arthur Flippin, MD, Sergio Flores, MD, Bessie Floyd, MD, Michael Flynn, MD, Vincent Flynn, MD, Theodore Folkerth, MD, Bradley Foltz, MD, Anna Foraci, DO, Harvey Forester, MD, Richard Fortuna, MD, Athanasios Foster, MD, James Foster, MD,<br />

Stanley Foster, MD, Blaine Fowler, MD, Carla Fox, MD, John Fox, MD, Robert Fox, MD, Robert Fox, MD, Laurie Frakes, MD, Katherine Francis, MD, Bridgette Franey, MD, Stewart Frank, MD, Sherry Franklin, MD, David Frankville, MD, Bradley Frasier, MD, John Fredericks, MD, Robert Fredricks, MD, Charles Freedman, MD, Roger Freeman, MD, William Freeman, MD,<br />

Harriet Fremland, MD, John Frey, MD, William Friedel, MD, Sheila Friedlander, MD, Edward Friedman, MD, Jaime Friedman, MD, Lawrence Friedman, MD, Paul Friedman, MD, Richard Friedman, MD, Peter Friend, MD, Benjamin Frishberg, MD, Zdenka Fronek, MD, Nicholas Frost, MD, Lance Fuchs, MD, Cindy Fujii, MD, Donald Fuller, MD, Edwin Fuller, MD, Wayne Funk,<br />

MD, Eric Furman, MD, Valerie Gafori, MD, Robert Gagnon, MD, Jeffrey Gaines, MD, Maggie Gama, MD, Paul Gamble, MD, David Gambling, MD, Theodore Ganiats, MD, Margaret Garahan, MD, Alon Garay, MD, Carlos Garcia, MD, Rafael Garcia, MD, Daniel Gardner, MD, Steven Garfin, MD, Anupam Garg, MD, John Garvie, MD, Vicente Garzo-Toro, MD, Radharani Gattu,<br />

MD, Brendan Gaylis, MD, Franklin Gaylis, MD, Theodore Geer, MD, Robert Gelb, MD, Yuri Gelland, MD, Andrew Gellens, MD, Dana Ger, MD, Michele Gerber, MD, Gregory Gerras, MD, Hamid Ghazi, MD, Samantha Ghiselli, MD, Kris Ghosh, MD, <strong>San</strong>jay Ghosh, MD, Ahmed Ghouri, MD, Brandon Giap, MD, Huan Giap, MD, George Gibson, MD, Leland Giddings, MD, Vishakha<br />

Gigler, MD, Francisco Gil, MD, Gabriel Gil, MD, Christopher Gilbert, MD, Martin Gilboa, MD, Patricia Gilbreath, MD, John Gill, MD, Robert Gillespie, MD, John Gillick, MD, Scott Gillin, MD, Shakha Gillin, MD, Ludwig Ginkel, MD, Robert Ginsberg, MD, Michael Girard, MD, Alexander Giritsky, MD, Dan Giurgiu, MD, Gary Glasgow, DO, Renee Glass, MD, Jerrold Glassman, MD,<br />

Christopher Glazener, MD, Dana Glenn, MD, Susan Glockner, MD, Kevin Glynn, MD, Brian Goelitz, MD, David Goff, MD, Yvonne Goff, MD, Frank Goicoechea, MD, Mark Gold, MD, Michael Goldbaum, MD, Ronald Goldberg, MD, Andrew Golden, MD, Joshua Golden, MD, Garry Goldfarb, MD, Paul Goldfarb, MD, Michael Goldhamer, MD, Robert Goldklang, MD, Mitchel Goldman,<br />

MD, Ronald Goldman, MD, Edward Goldstein, MD, Irwin Goldstein, MD, Paul Goldstein, MD, Henry Golembesky, MD, Norman Gollub, MD, Denise Gomez, MD, Steven Gonias, MD, Darrell Gonzales, MD, Marco Gonzalez, MD, Justin Gooding, MD, Allan Goodman, MD, Dennis Goodman, MD, Eric Goodman, MD, Nancy Goodman, MD, Paul Goodman, MD, Kim Goodwin, MD,<br />

John Gordon, MD, Josh Gordon, MD, Karen Gordon, MD, Michael Gordon, MD, Jeffrey Gorwit, MD, Maki Goskowicz, MD, Stephen Gottlieb, MD, Susan Goyal-McHale, MD, Edgardo Gracia, MD, Francisco Gracia, MD, Michele Grad, MD, David Granet, MD, James Grant, MD, Janette Gray, MD, Leslie Gray, MD, Mary Grebenc, MD, Alexander Green, MD, Daniel Green, MD,<br />

Jonathan Green, MD, Steven Green, MD, Brent Greenberg, MD, Eric Greenberg, MD, Eric Greenberg, DO, Laurie Greenberg, MD, Richard Greenfield, MD, Joshua Greenstein, MD, David Greenwald, MD, Hubert Greenway, MD, Alexander Greiner, MD, Kuljinder Grewal, MD, James Grisolia, MD, Gary Groesbeck, MD, Geoffrey Groom, MD, Carla Grosmann, MD, Kenneth<br />

Gross, MD, Steven Gross, MD, Jay Grossman, MD, Douglas Grove, MD, Arthur Gruen, MD, Joseph Grzeskiewicz, MD, Chris Guerin, MD, Gregory Gullahorn, MD, Kathleen Gullahorn, MD, Leslie Gullahorn, MD, Heather Gunnarson, MD, Abhay Gupta, MD, Keerti Gurushanthaiah, MD, David Guss, MD, Erwin Gutowitz, MD, Vincent Guzzetta, MD, Gerald Haas, MD, Terry<br />

Haas, MD, Scott Hacker, MD, Laura Hackett, MD, David Hackley, MD, David Haffie, DO, Colin Haggerty, MD, Patrick Haggerty, MD, Bruce Haight, MD, James Halcomb, MD, Andrew Hall, MD, Jonathan Halperin, MD, William Halsey, MD, Robert Hamburger, MD, Azardokht Hamedaninia, MD, Mahshid Hamidi, MD, Charles Hamori, MD, Andrew Hampshire, MD, Kristin<br />

Hampshire, MD, Ali Hamzei, MD, Alex Han, MD, Laurie Han, MD, Barry Handler, MD, Anne Hanneken, MD, David Hansen, MD, Galen Hansen, MD, John Hansen, MD, Fredrick Hanson, MD, Peter Hanson, MD, David Harari, MD, Teresa Hardisty, MD, Tyrone Hardy, MD, W. Harless, MD, Jim Harley, MD, Scott Harman, MD, Brian Harney, MD, John Harper, MD, Kimberly<br />

Harper, MD, Elaine Harpster, MD, Ronald Harrington, MD, Jeffrey Harris, MD, Thomas Harris, MD, Marquis Hart, MD, Carol Harter, MD, Lee Harvey, MD, Said Hashemi, MD, Tarek Hassanein, MD, Tissa Hata, MD, Robert Hathorn, MD, Holly Hauser, MD, Weldon Haw, MD, Randall Hawkins, MD, James Hay, MD, Bruce Haynes, MD, Jonathan Haynes, MD, Paul Hazelbaker,<br />

DO, Edit Hegyi, MD, Christopher Heichel, MD, William Heimer, MD, Andrew Heinle, MD, Erin Heinle, MD, Joel Heiser, MD, James Helgager, MD, Jason Hemmerich, MD, James Hemp, MD, Gwendolyn Henao, MD, Harry Henderson, MD, Rodney Henderson, MD, Trevor Henderson, MD, Sheldon Hendler, MD, P. Hendricks, MD, Jefferson Hendrix, MD, Michael Hepfer, MD,<br />

Laurel Herbst, MD, Robert Herbst, MD, Claudia Herd, MD, Daniel Hernandez, MD, Francisco Hernandez, MD, Lynn Herring, MD, Daniel Hershey, MD, Robert Hertzka, MD, John Hesselink, MD, Misa Hidaka, MD, Steven Higgins, MD, John Hilinski, MD, David Hill, MD, John Hill, MD, Paul Himaya, MD, Sonya Hintz, MD, Gregory Hirsch, MD, Neil Hirschenbein, MD, William<br />

Hitchcock, MD, Huy Ho, MD, James Ho, MD, Mylien Ho, MD, Peter Hoagland, MD, Minh-Tuan Hoang, MD, Philip Hoang, MD, David Hoban, MD, David Hodgens, MD, Hugh Hodsman, MD, Katie Hoeveler, MD, Jeremy Hogan, MD, Robert Hogan, MD, Louis Hogrefe, MD, Ernest Holburt, MD, Carol Hollan, MD, William Holland, MD, Ralph Holmes, MD, Matthew Hom, MD,<br />

Denise Honer, MD, Rodney Hood, MD, Diana Hoppe, MD, Matthew Horn, MD, Steven Horowitz, DO, Eric Horton, MD, Robert Houghton, MD, Brent Howard, MD, Gayle Howard, MD, Frederick Howden, MD, <strong>San</strong> Hsieh, MD, Bradford Hsu, MD, Russell Hubbard, MD, Birgitta Hufnagel-Pinney, MD, Michael Hughes, MD, Andrew Hull, MD, Peter Hum, MD, Philip Humber, MD,<br />

William Hummel, MD, Daniel Hunting, MD, Michael Huntley, MD, Patrick Huott, MD, Dana Huskey, MD, K. Huston, MD, Vong Huynh, MD, Gloria Hwang, MD, Paul Hyde, MD, Robert Hye, MD, Michael Ibarra, MD, Kathlyn Ignacio, MD, Tahir Ijaz, MD, Pascal Imperato, MD, Dulce Innocenzi, MD, Scott Irwin, MD, Hart Isaacs, MD, Gary Isley, MD, Andrew Israel, MD, Wayne<br />

Iverson, MD, Ken Iwaoka, MD, Radha Iyengar, MD, Sridhar Iyer, MD, <strong>San</strong>ford Izner, MD, Charles Jablecki, MD, Mark Jabro, MD, Blaine Jackson, MD, Gary Jacobs, MD, Robert Jacobs, MD, James Jacobsen, MD, Mark Jacobson, MD, Irving Jacoby, MD, Steven Jaeger, MD, Adrian Jaffer, MD, Rina Jain, MD, John James, MD, Veronique James, MD, Stuart Jamieson, MD,<br />

Joseph Jankiewicz, MD, Elias Jaraicie, MD, <strong>San</strong>ja Jarebica, MD, Brian Jaski, MD, <strong>San</strong>dra Jassmann, MD, James Jaworski, MD, Frederick Jenkin, DO, Mary Jennings, MD, Igor Jercinovich, MD, Jie-Gen Jiang, MD, Arsenio Jimenez, MD, Thomas Joas, MD, Frederick Johnson, MD, James Johnson, MD, John Johnson, MD, Kenneth Johnson, MD, Mark Johnson, MD,<br />

Noah Johnson, MD, R. Johnson, MD, Laurie Johnston, MD, Marilyn Jones, MD, Georgine Jorgensen, MD, James Jorgensen, MD, Carolyn Josepho, MD, Patricia Juarez, MD, Michael Juboori, MD, Lewis Judd, MD, Saad Juma, MD, Richard Just, MD, Martin Kabongo, MD, Mark Kadden, MD, Yale Kadesky, MD, Amad Kadry, MD, Joan Kaestner, MD, David Kaiden, MD,<br />

Mushrik Kaisey, MD, Gene Kallenberg, MD, Mahjabeen Kamyar, MD, Rokay Kamyar, MD, Michael Kan, MD, Edward Kane, MD, Norman Kane, MD, Anuradha Kanungo, MD, Dennis Kaplan, MD, George Kaplan, MD, Lee Kaplan, MD, Roy Kaplan, MD, Annelese Kapteina, MD, Thomas Karagianes, MD, Amir Karam, MD, Prachi Karnik, MD, Michael Karp, MD, Serge Kaska, MD,<br />

Vincent Kater, MD, Richard Katz, MD, Barry Katzman, MD, Marilyn Kaufhold, MD, Irvin Kaufman, MD, Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, Steven Kavy, MD, Susan Kaweski, MD, Alex Kay, MD, Kathleen Kaya, MD, Howard Kaye, MD, Robert Kearney, MD, Wilfred Kearse, MD, Michael Keefe, MD, William Keen, MD, Robert Keenan, MD, Danny Keiller, MD,<br />

Paul Keith, MD, Joseph Kelleher, MD, Michael Keller, MD, Leon Kelley, MD, Adrienne Kelly, MD, Carolyn Kelly, MD, Jon Kelly, MD, Kevin Kelly, MD, Thomas Kelly, MD, Thomas Kelly, MD, Christopher Kelsey, MD, Shahin Keramati, MD, Jason Keri, MD, Bradham Kesling, MD, L. Kettel, MD, Aliya Khan, MD, Ajai Khanna, MD, <strong>San</strong>deep Khanna, MD, Bhupinder Khehar, MD,<br />

Wendy Khentigan, MD, Christopher Kielich, MD, Don Kikkawa, MD, Thomas Kilcheski, MD, Bryce Kim, MD, Choll Kim, MD, David Kim, MD, Eung Kim, MD, Hyun Kim, MD, Paul Kim, MD, Michael Kimball, MD, Andrew King, MD, Bryan King, MD, Byron King, MD, Monique King, MD, A. Kingsbury, MD, Kristina Kjeldsberg, MD, Ilene Klein, MD, Stuart Klein, MD, Ara Klijian,<br />

MD, Vincent Knauf, MD, James Knight, MD, Charles Knoll, MD, Kirk Knowlton, MD, Thomas Knutson, MD, David Ko, MD, Gary Kobayashi, MD, Marc Kobernick, MD, Karen Kohatsu, MD, Anuradha Koka, MD, Jerry Kolins, MD, Nancy Kollisch, MD, Larry Konzen, MD, Dale Kooistra, MD, Banita Kooner, DO, Rajnish Kooner, DO, Judith Koperski, MD, Gary Korff, MD, Bobby<br />

Korn, MD, Tommy Korn, MD, Jason Kornberg, MD, Murray Kornblit, MD, Leonard Kornreich, MD, Eric Korsh, MD, Michael Kosmo, MD, Charles Kossman, MD, Steven Kossman, MD, Michael Kosty, MD, Michael Koumjian, MD, John Kownacki, MD, Michael Krak, MD, Marc Kramer, MD, Stephen Krant, MD, Jeffrey Krebs, MD, Harvey Kreitzer, MD, Arnold Kremer, DO, Marvin<br />

Kripps, MD, John Kroener, MD, Thomas Krol, MD, Seth Krosner, MD, Archana Kudva, MD, Kierian Kuklok, MD, Kavita Kumar, MD, Mahesh Kumar, MD, Sarmistha Kumar, DO, George Kung, MD, Andrew Kuninobu, MD, Teri Kunin-Rida, MD, Sohaib Kureshi, MD, Wayne Kurisu, MD, Matthew Kurlan, DO, Howard Kurshenbaum, MD, Yaroslav Kushnir, MD, Judith La Barbera,<br />

MD, James La Belle, MD, John La Fata, MD, William Ladd, MD, Christopher Lafferty, MD, Maria Lai, MD, Thomas Laipply, MD, Nisha Lakhani, MD, Michael Lamar, MD, Joel Lamon, MD, Donna Landtwing, MD, John Lane, MD, Raymond Lane, MD, Gregory Langford, MD, Ross Langley, MD, L. Lapp, MD, Alan Larson, MD, James Larson, MD, Ruth Larson, MD, Ali Lashgari,<br />

MD, Donald Lathen, MD, Dana Launer, MD, Daniel Lawler, MD, Leonard Lazarus, MD, Hoe Le, MD, Lisa Le, MD, Trang Le, MD, Rebecca Le Vasseur, MD, Jeffrey Leach, MD, Dennis Leahy, MD, Eva Lean, MD, Richard Learn, MD, Marc Lebovits, MD, Kira Lebowitz, MD, Dandy Lee, MD, Daniel Lee, MD, David Lee, MD, Gilbert Lee, MD, Helen Lee, MD, Karen Lee, MD, Roland<br />

Lee, MD, Young Lee, MD, Aaron Lehman, MD, Ronald Lehman, MD, Jon Lelevier, MD, Brian Lenzkes, MD, Jose Leon, MD, Josue Leon, MD, Eva Leonard, MD, Joseph Leonard, MD, Sheldon Lerner, MD, Steven Leshaw, MD, Jennifer Leung, MD, Eric Leute, MD, Roneet Lev, MD, Leah Levi, MD, Carolyn Levin, MD, Ronald Levin, MD, David Levine, MD, Ira Levine, MD, Sidney<br />

Levine, MD, Mauricio Levine-Kogan, MD, Gary Levinson, MD, Denis Levy, MD, Lawrence Levy, MD, Louis Levy, MD, Charles Lewis, MD, William Lewis, MD, Bryan Liang, MD, Teh “Sam” Liang, MD, Jonathan Licht, MD, Julian Lichter, MD, Paul Liederman, MD, Binh Lieu, MD, Cyril Light, MD, John Lilley, MD, Renee Lim, MD, Susan Lim, MD, Cheng-I Lin, MD, Cynthia Lin,<br />

MD, Hong-Der Lin, MD, Keming Lin, MD, Stacey Lin, MD, James Lindeen, MD, Steven Lindheim, MD, Tomas Lindstrom, MD, Raymond Linovitz, MD, Patrick Linson, MD, Robert Lipetz, DO, Donald Lipkis, MD, Victor Lipp, MD, Jon Lischke, MD, Marshall Littman, MD, Jerome Litvinoff, MD, Alice Liu, MD, Charles Liu, MD, Wilson Liu, MD, Brent Livingston, MD, Eric Lizerbram,<br />

MD, Stanley Lloyd, MD, Michael Lobatz, MD, Mary Loehr, MD, Thomas Lohner, MD, James Lohr, MD, David Londo, MD, Damon London, MD, Keri London, MD, Kimberly Longmire, MD, George Longstreth, MD, Michelle Look, MD, Ann Lopez, MD, Tony Lopez, MD, Domingo Lopez-Velez, MD, Gregory Loren, MD, Eric Lorr, MD, Miguel Losada, MD, Dalton Lowe, MD, Elizabeth<br />

Lozada-Pastorio, MD, John Lubisich, MD, Matthew Lucks, MD, Katherine Ludington, MD, William Luetzow, MD, Louis Luevanos, MD, George Luiken, MD, Jason Lujan, MD, Emily Lukacz, MD, Sophia Lum, MD, Gerard Lumkong, MD, Joseph Luna, MD, Alfred Luppi, MD, Alan Lurie, MD, Louis Lurie, MD, Franklin Lusby, MD, Patrick Lyden, MD, Robert Lynch, MD, John<br />

Lynn, MD, James Lyon, MD, Gene Ma, MD, Luis Maas, MD, Arthur Mabaquiao, MD, Patrick Macapinlac, MD, Kathryn Macaulay, MD, Lester Machado, MD, Norma Macias, MD, Ronald MacIntyre, MD, Gregory Mack, MD, Lachlan Macleay, MD, Eric Macy, MD, Michael Madani, MD, George Madany, MD, Jack Madowitz, MD, Afsaneh Maghsoudy, MD, Margaret Magone, MD,<br />

Gregory Mahan, MD, Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, Alan Maisel, MD, Samina Makani, MD, Andrew Malcolm, MD, Mikhail Malek, MD, Robert Malkus, MD, Allan Mallinger, MD, Kevin Malone, MD, Gary Manchester, MD, Gerard Manecke, MD, Hamid Mani, MD, Majid Mani, MD, Nasrin Mani, MD, Joseph Mann, MD, William Mann, MD, Elizabeth Mannino, MD, Steven Mannis, MD,<br />

Richard Manos, MD, Perry Mansfield, MD, Gina Mansy, MD, Peggy Manuel, MD, Corey Marco, MD, Timothy Maresh, MD, Ada Marin, MD, John Marino, MD, Blesilda Mario-Singh, MD, Leslie Mark, MD, Anthony Markarian, MD, Arnold Markman, MD, Michael Markman, MD, Daniel Marnell, MD, Diana Marquardt, MD, Luis Marquez, MD, David Marsh, MD, Larry Marshall,<br />

MD, Lawrence Marshall, MD, Stuart Marshall, MD, Dale Martin, MD, Franklin Martin, MD, Frederic Martin, MD, Michael Martin, MD, Michael Martin, MD, Albert Martinez, MD, John Martinez, MD, Thomas Martinez, MD, Ingrid Martinez-Andree, MD, Jeffrey Marxen, MD, Alanson Mason, MD, James Mason, MD, Dina Massry, MD, Robert Masters, MD, Bill Mastrodimos,<br />

MD, Kurt Mathews, MD, Philip Mathis, MD, Joseph Matista, MD, Robert Matorin, MD, Paul Matsumoto, DO, Chris Matthews, DO, Merritt Matthews, MD, Robert Mattrey, MD, Joseph Mawhinney, MD, Gregory Maynard, MD, Catherine Maywood, MD, Robert Maywood, MD, Sami Maywood, MD, Rahele Mazarei, DO, Theodore Mazer, MD, Jeffrey Mazin, MD, William<br />

Mazzei, MD, Thomas McAfee, MD, Michael McBeth, MD, Margaret McCahill, MD, Patrick McCallion, MD, James McCallum, MD, Bill McCarberg, MD, Lawrence McCarthy, MD, D. McCaul, MD, Albert McClain, MD, James McClurg, MD, John McCluskey, MD, Leslie McCormick, MD, Peter McCreight, MD, Michael McCue, MD, Harrison McDonald, MD, Catherine McDoniel,<br />

DO, Peter McElfresh, MD, Nathan McFarland, MD, Gary McFeeters, MD, Ann Mcgowan-Tuskes, MD, Martin McGreevy, MD, Curtis McGuyer, MD, Colleen McNally, MD, James McSweeney, MD, Donald Mebust, MD, Ben Medina, MD, William Meeker, MD, Jean Mefferd, MD, Jeffrey Megorden, MD, Gita Mehta, MD, Ravindra Mehta, MD, June Melin, MD, Anaida Melkumian,<br />

MD, Sally Mellgren, MD, Daniel Meltzer, MD, Eli Meltzer, MD, Hal Meltzer, MD, Anna Mendenhall, MD, Alex Mercandetti, MD, Walter Merdinger, MD, Robert Meredith, MD, Richard Merino, MD, Kevin Merkes, MD, Suzanne Merrill-Nach, MD, Jane Mertens, MD, Kevin Metros, MD, Randall Metsch, MD, Matthew Meunier, MD, Brett Meyer, MD, David Meyer, MD, Mark<br />

Meyer, MD, Robert Meyer, MD, Melvyn Michaelian, MD, Daniel Michaels, MD, Michael Michalski, MD, David Michelson, MD, Bernard Michlin, MD, Iman Mikhail, MD, David Milder, MD, John Miles, MD, Walter Millar, MD, Frederick Millard, MD, S. Millbern, MD, Christine Miller, MD, Donald Miller, MD, Douglas Miller, MD, Larry Miller, MD, Laurence Miller, MD, Lisa Miller,<br />

MD, Lucy Miller, MD, Nathan Miller, MD, Ronald Miller, MD, Scott Miller, MD, Paul Milling, MD, Suzanne Mills, MD, John Milner, MD, Howard Milstein, MD, Genevieve Minka, MD, Peter Minkoff, MD, John Missanelli, DO, William Mittendorff, MD, Sudabeh Moein, MD, Michael Moellenhoff, MD, Brian Moffit, MD, Mehrdad Mofid, MD, Mona Mofid, MD, Teresa Mogielnicki,<br />

MD, William Mohlenbrock, MD, Renee Mohrmann, MD, George Moir, MD, James Moitoza, MD, Daniel Molden, MD, C. Moldenhauer, MD, Joseph Molina, MD, Gustavo Mondragon, MD, Jay Mongiardo, MD, William Monk, MD, Jeanne Montal, MD, Jose Montenegro, MD, Gordon Montgomery, MD, J. Moodie, MD, Richard Moon, MD, Vert Mooney, MD, Brian Moore, MD,<br />

Catherine Moore, MD, Homer Moore, MD, Lucy Moore, MD, Thomas Moore, MD, Abdool Moossa, MD, Amir Moradi, MD, Arlene Morales, MD, Stephen Moreland, MD, Nicholas Morell, MD, Michael Moreno, MD, Jacob Morgan, MD, James Morgan, MD, James Morgan, MD, Jeffrey Morris, MD, Kenneth Morris, MD, John Morse, MD, Dori Mortimer, MD, Asa Morton,<br />

MD, William Moseley, MD, James Moseman, MD, Thomas Mosher, MD, Coleman Mosley, MD, Kelly Motadel, MD, Scott Mubarak, MD, Richard Muir, MD, Michael Muldoon, MD, Jeffry Mullvain, MD, Daniel Mulvihill, MD, Stephen Munday, MD, Arno Mundt, MD, Rodrigo Munoz, MD, Roger Murken, MD, James Murphy, MD, John Murphy, MD, Kevin Murphy, MD, Leo<br />

Murphy, MD, Mary Murphy, MD, Paul Murphy, MD, Thomas Murphy, MD, Timothy Murphy, MD, Kevin Murray, MD, George Murrell, MD, Michael Musicant, MD, Scott Musicant, MD, Scott Musinski, MD, Marie Mutuc-Wurst, MD, Jonathan Myer, MD, Daniel Nachtsheim, MD, Gilbert Naco, MD, Charles Nager, MD, Walter Nahm, MD, John Naitoh, MD, David Najafi, MD,<br />

David Namazy, MD, Vimal Nanavati, MD, Padma Nanduri, MD, Peter Nanigian, MD, Mearl Naponic, MD, Eileen Natuzzi, MD, Veronica Naudin, MD, Luis Navazo, MD, Robert Neborsky, MD, Norman Needel, MD, Roy Neff, MD, Thomas Neglia, MD, Grant Neifeld, MD, Mark Nelson, MD, Trevor Nelson, MD, Kathryn Nemanich, MD, Jeffrey Nerenberg, MD, Michael<br />

Nerenberg, MD, Daniel Ness, MD, Paul Neustein, MD, Robert Neveln, MD, Lawrence Newman, MD, Lars Newsome, MD, Lyra Ng, MD, Dat Nguyen, MD, Khang Nguyen, MD, Nicole Nguyen, MD, Quyen Nguyen, MD, Truc Nguyen, MD, Hongyu Ni, MD, Stephen Nichols, MD, James Nickel, MD, Christine Nieman, MD, Jared Nieman, MD, Dennis Nigro, MD, Troy Niguidula,<br />

MD, Howard Noack, MD, Melissa Noble, DO, Elizabeth Nolan, MD, Helen Noll, MD, Michael Noon, MD, William Norcross, MD, Christine Nordling, MD, Marilyn Norton, MD, Valerie Norton, MD, Georganne Novak, MD, John Nunes, MD, Michael Nussbaum, MD, Michael Nyberg, MD, Robert Nye, MD, William Nyhan, MD, Stephen Nystul, MD, Sebastian Obrzut, MD,<br />

Margaret O’Byrne, MD, James Ochi, MD, Dayle O’Connor, MD, Richard O’Connor, MD, Teresa O’Dea, MD, Laura O’Donnell, MD, Robert O’Donnell, MD, William Ohara, MD, Eli Ohayon, MD, Julie Ohayon, MD, Vincent Okamoto, MD, Leonard Okun, MD, Linda Olafson, MD, Michael O’Leary, MD, Carlos Oliva, MD, Brian O’Loughlin, MD, Walter Olsen, MD, Cheryl Olson,<br />

MD, Kevin Olson, MD, Linda Olson, MD, Patrick O’Meara, MD, Shadi Omidi, MD, Gerald Ondash, MD, Steven Oppenheim, MD, William O’Riordan, MD, Monica Ormsby, MD, Peter Orner, MD, Steven Ornish, MD, Carl Orr, MD, Robert Orr, MD, Maria Oseguera, MD, Louise O’Shaughnessy, MD, Lane Oslund, MD, David Ostrander, MD, Nancy Ostrom, MD, Richard Ostrup,<br />

MD, Jose Otero, MD, Shirley Otis, MD, James Otoshi, MD, Kenneth Ott, MD, Jennie Ou, MD, Cindy Owen, MD, David Owens, MD, Robert Pace, MD, Deborah Page, MD, Thomas Page, MD, Christopher Pallia, MD, Richard Pantarotto, MD, Bing Pao, MD, Patricia Pardo, MD, Edward Paredez, MD, Mihir Parikh, MD, Jennifer Park, MD, Sissela Park, MD, Tari Park, MD,<br />

Barbara Parker, MD, James Parker, MD, Jenny Parker, MD, Sherine Parker, MD, C. Parsons, MD, Genevieve Parsons, MD, Brian Partridge, MD, Bijal Patel, MD, Rakesh Patel, MD, <strong>San</strong>dip Patidar, MD, John Pauls, MD, Kathleen Paveglio, MD, William Paxton, MD, Dennis Payne, MD, Elizabeth Payne, MD, Richard Payne, MD, Jeffrey Pearson, DO, David Peck, DO, John<br />

Pedrotty, MD, Jorge Pelayo-Garcia, MD, Michelle Pelle, MD, Cesar Pena, MD, Robert Pendleton, MD, Elizabeth Pendragon, MD, Robert Penner, MD, Jerrold Penso, MD, Emmanuel Pentheroudakis, MD, Timothy Peppers, MD, Glenn Perelson, MD, Erik Perkins, MD, Stanley Perkins, MD, Darcey Perlman, MD, Mark Perlman, MD, Richard Perlman, MD, Arthur Perry,<br />

MD, John Person, MD, Robert Peters, MD, <strong>San</strong>dra Petersen, MD, Bradley Peterson, MD, Drew Peterson, MD, Raymond Peterson, MD, Timothy Peterson, MD, William Petras, DO, James Pettit, MD, Tammy Pham, MD, Julie Phillips, MD, Vernon Phillips, MD, Andrew Phoon, MD, Bretten Pickering, MD, Jerome Pierce, MD, Laurie Pierce, MD, Michael Pietila, MD,<br />

Thomas Pietuch, MD, Raymond Pigeon, MD, Mary Pikus, MD, Norman Pincock, MD, William Pitt, MD, Luzviminda Pizarro, MD, Karel Placek, MD, Steven Plaxe, MD, Michael Plopper, MD, David Plourd, MD, Glenn Plummer, MD, J. Poceta, MD, Lawrence Pohl, MD, Andrew Polansky, MD, Raymond Poliakoff, MD, Jonathan Polikoff, MD, Lon Poliner, MD, Douglas<br />

Politoske, MD, Robert Pollack, MD, David Polster, MD, Paul Ponganis, MD, Samuel Poniachik, MD, Kim Porterfield, MD, Emerito Posadas, MD, Bruce Potenza, MD, Lata Potturi, MD, Carl Powell, DO, Henry Powell, MD, Stephanie Powell, MD, Venu Prabaker, MD, Ravindra Prabhu, MD, Vijaya Pratha, MD, Steven Pratt, MD, Julie Prazich, MD, Bruce Prenner, MD,<br />

Raymond Press, MD, Jeffrey Pressman, MD, William Previte, DO, Deanna Price, MD, Pamela Price, MD, Richard Price, MD, Maya Pring, MD, David Priver, MD, Ann Marie Prochera, MD, Gary Prodanovich, MD, Irina Proshkina, MD, Michael Puckett, MD, Alexander Pue, MD, Manuel Puig-Llano, MD, Ernest Pund, MD, Paul Pyka, DO, C. Quan, MD, James Quigley, DO,<br />

Malachi Quigley, MD, William Quillin, MD, Carlos Quiros, MD, Allan Rabin, MD, Edward Racek, MD, Paul Raffer, MD, Nandita Raja, MD, Lee Ralph, MD, Bhuvana Ramanathan, MD, James Ramenofsky, MD, Manuel Ramirez, MD, Mark Ransom, MD, Roderick Rapier, MD, Stanley Rapoport, MD, Layne Rasmussen, MD, Zachary Rattner, MD, Peter Raudaskoski, MD,<br />

Marshall Ravden, MD, Sumati Rawat, MD, Albert Ray, MD, Sunil Rayan, MD, Bijan Razi, MD, Brian Reagan, MD, Rovena Reagan, MD, C. Rearden, MD, Douglas Reavie, MD, Ananthram Reddy, MD, Joseph Reddy, MD, Lisa Reed, DO, Harvey Reich, MD, Murray Reicher, MD, Robert Reichman, MD, Robert Reid, MD, Tony Reid, MD, Russell Reinbolt, MD, Scott Reineck,<br />

MD, Bruce Reisman, MD, Peter Reissmann, MD, Stephen Reitman, MD, Jane Reldan, MD, Lee Remington-Boone, MD, Xing-Jian Ren, MD, Nathan Rendler, MD, Michael Rensink, MD, William Resh, MD, Robert Resnik, MD, Joseph Resnikoff, MD, David Reynaldo, MD, Eugene Rhee, MD, Vincent Ricchiuti, MD, E. Rice, DO, James Rice, MD, Lawrence Rice, MD, Kristen<br />

Richards, MD, Steven Richards, MD, Frederick Richburg, MD, Katherine Richman, MD, Enass Rickards, MD, Spencer Rickwa, DO, Scott Riedler, MD, George Riffle, MD, Timothy Riley, MD, Choon Rim, MD, Heini Rinderknecht, MD, Feliciano Rios, MD, Raquel Rissman, MD, Donald Ritt, MD, Jaime Rivas, MD, Luis Rivera, MD, Marcelo Rivera, MD, Pierre Rivet, MD,<br />

Bruce Robbins, MD, Shira Robbins, MD, Anne Roberts, MD, James Roberts, MD, Edward Robertson, MD, Howard Robin, MD, Jon Robins, MD, Blythe Robinson, MD, Fane Robinson, MD, Jerome Robinson, MD, Nguyen-Thi Robinson, MD, Ruth Robles-Goche, MD, Marianne Rochester, MD, Alexander Rodarte, MD, Ernest Rodier, MD, Juan Rodriguez, MD, Madeline<br />

Rodriguez, MD, Christopher Rogers, MD, Stephen Rogers, MD, Jose Romero, MD, Kenneth Romero, MD, John Romine, MD, William Ronan, DO, Mary Rose, MD, Nathaniel Rose, MD, Howard Roselinsky, MD, David Roseman, MD, Peter Rosen, MD, Dianne Rosenberg, MD, Jay Rosenberg, MD, Jeffrey Rosenburg, MD, Alan Rosenfield, MD, Paul Rosenthal, MD, Sara<br />

Rosenthal, MD, Nancy Rost, MD, Julie Roth, DO, Kenneth Roth, MD, Robert Roth, MD, Jeffrey Rothman, MD, Sherry Rotunda, MD, Dina Royal, MD, Emily Rubenstein, MD, Stuart Rubenstein, MD, Judith Rubin, MD, Denise Rubino, MD, Steven Ruderman, MD, Charles Rudolph, MD, Ross Rudolph, MD, Peter Rullan, MD, Eugene Rumsey, MD, Terri Russo, MD, Leonard<br />

Rutberg, MD, Dana Ryan, MD, David Ryan, MD, Laurence Saben, MD, Tagumpay Sacamay, MD, Alisa Sacker, MD, Anthony Sacks, MD, Mark Sadoff, MD, Reza Sadrian, MD, Craig Saffer, MD, Richard Safrin, MD, Gregory Sahagian, MD, Carl Sainten, MD, Edward Sakas, MD, Ali Salami, MD, Bobak Salami, MD, Carol Salem, MD, Fakhri Salem, MD, Robert Salerno, MD,<br />

Gail Salganick-Erfani, MD, Pedram Salimpour, MD, Pejman Salimpour, MD, Bryn Salt, MD, Steven Saltz, MD, Stephen Saltzman, MD, Arvin Saluta, MD, Kosala Samarasinghe, MD, Henry Samtoy, MD, William Samuel, MD, Carlos <strong>San</strong>chez, MD, Luis <strong>San</strong>chez, MD, Anika <strong>San</strong>da, MD, Ajay Pal <strong>San</strong>dhu, MD, Jeffrey <strong>San</strong>dler, MD, Mary <strong>San</strong>felippo, MD, Ajmel <strong>San</strong>gha, MD,<br />

Robert <strong>San</strong>tella, MD, Richard <strong>San</strong>tore, MD, Marialyn Sardo, MD, Paul Sarkaria, MD, Robert Sarnoff, MD, Christine Saroian, MD, Charles Sarosy, MD, Nancy Satur, MD, Thomas Savides, MD, Maria Savoia, MD, <strong>San</strong>dra Saw, MD, Parmela Sawhney, MD, James Schaefer, MD, Cynthia Schaeffer, MD, Jeffry Schafer, MD, Robert Schaffer, MD, David Schanzlin, MD, Michael<br />

Schatz, MD, Mark Schechter, MD, Robert Scheinberg, MD, Barry Scher, MD, Joseph Scherger, MD, Stanley Scheurman, MD, Andrew Schiffman, MD, Jack Schim, MD, Jonathan Schleimer, MD, Lawrence Schlitt, MD, Albert Schmid, MD, Joseph Schmidt, MD, David Schmottlach, MD, Aaron Schneir, MD, Bradley Schnierow, MD, Alan Schoengold, MD, Myron Schonbrun,<br />

MD, David Schrimmer, MD, Leonard Schulkind, MD, Martin Schulman, MD, James Schultz, MD, Jeffrey Schultz, MD, Douglas Schulz, MD, Mark Schumacher, MD, Alexandra Schwartz, MD, Ross Schwartzberg, MD, James Schwendig, MD, Angela Scioscia, MD, Craig Sclar, MD, Joseph Scoma, MD, Emily Scott, MD, Gregory Scott, MD, Richard Scott, MD, Robert<br />

Scott, MD, Frank Scotti, MD, Robert Searles, MD, Daniel Sears, MD, Michael Sebahar, MD, Maria Sebiane, MD, Christopher Sebrechts, MD, Franklin Sedarat, MD, Marc Sedwitz, MD, Michael Segall, MD, Robert Segnit, MD, Caron Selati, MD, Daniel Selig, MD, Loren Selman, MD, Jeffrey Selzer, MD, Stephen Selzer, MD, William Sereda, MD, John Serocki, MD, Rod<br />

Serry, MD, Scott Sessions, MD, Kevin Seufert, MD, Charles Sevadjian, MD, Anna Seydel, MD, Sharna Shachar, MD, Javaid Shad, MD, Chandrakant Shah, MD, Swati Shah, MD, Fred Shahan, MD, Mahnaz Shahidi-Asl, MD, John Shale, MD, Reyzan Shali, MD, David Shamblaw, MD, Mark Shapiro, MD, Albert Sharf, MD, Jacob Sharp, MD, David Shaw, MD, James Shaw,<br />

MD, Dennis Shay, MD, Tiffany Shay, MD, Peder Shea, MD, Geoffrey Sheean, MD, Katharine Sheehan, MD, John Shega, MD, Ehab Shehata, MD, Edward Sheldon, MD, Mark Sherman, MD, Maurice Sherman, MD, Robert Sherman, MD, Nancy Shiau, MD, Bennett Shiller, MD, Thomas Shima, MD, Kenneth Shimizu, MD, Susan Shimomaye, MD, Dana Shipp, MD, Reza<br />

Shirazi, MD, Harold Shively, MD, Scott Shoemaker, MD, Stephen Shoemaker, MD, William Shoemaker, DO, Brian Shore, MD, Richard Short, MD, Peggy Shoval, MD, Susan Shuchter, MD, Vicktoria Shuffelton, DO, Wendy Shumate, MD, Robert Shumway, MD, Joseph Shurman, MD, Dean Sidelinger, MD, Theresa Siefken, DO, Jonathan Siegel, MD, Stephen Signer,<br />

MD, John Silbert, MD, Melinda Silva, MD, Rafael Silva, MD, Allan Silver, MD, Dee Silver, MD, Elizabeth Silverman, MD, Jennifer Simkin Kostrinsky, DO, Allie Simon, MD, Fred Simon, MD, Harold Simon, MD, Lex Simpson, MD, Edward Singer, MD, Robert Singer, MD, Pritam Singh, MD, Jerome Sinsky, MD, Claude Sirlin, MD, Michael Sise, MD, Stanley Skaggs, MD,<br />

Michael Skyhar, MD, David Slack, MD, Wesley Smidt, MD, Renee Smilde, MD, Andres Smith, MD, Damon Smith, MD, David Smith, MD, David Smith, MD, David Smith, MD, Jeffrey Smith, MD, Kevin Smith, MD, Linda Smith, MD, Mark Smith, MD, Michael Smith, MD, Robin Smith, MD, Stacy Smith, MD, Wade Smith, MD, John Smoot, MD, Wendell Smoot, MD, David<br />

Smotrich, MD, Joel Snyder, MD, Ole Snyder, MD, Richard Snyder, MD, William Snyder, MD, David Sobel, MD, Martin Sodomsky, MD, Ricardo Soltero, MD, Marianne Sommerville, MD, S. Y. Song, MD, Nokeo Songvilay, DO, Deepak Sonthalia, MD, Khalil Soomro, MD, Mark Sornson, MD, Massoud Soumekh, MD, Robert Spear, MD, Paul Speckart, MD, Thomas Spethmann,<br />

MD, Mark Speziale, MD, David Spiegel, MD, Jeffrey Spier, MD, John Spinosa, MD, Mark Spiro, MD, Bradley Spitz, MD, Gary Spoto, MD, Richard Stahl, MD, Clay Stanley, MD, Ken Stanley, MD, William Stanton, MD, Anthony Stanzi, MD, Carla Stayboldt, MD, Clyde Steele, MD, Dylan Steer, MD, Joseph Stein, MD, Robert Stein, MD, Wendy Stein, MD, Karl Steinberg, MD,<br />

Steven Steinberg, MD, Alicja Steiner, MD, Frank Stella, MD, Richard Stennes, MD, Christopher Stephenson, MD, Mark Stern, MD, Marc Sternberg, MD, Sharon Sternfeld, MD, Craig Stevenson, MD, Ryan Stewart, MD, Sara Stewart, MD, Roger Stoike, MD, Lori Stone, MD, Charles Stoopack, MD, Jeffrey Stork, MD, Walter Strauser, MD, John Strauss, MD, Paul Strauss,<br />

MD, Barbara Strawn, MD, Lorrie Strohecker, MD, Christine Strohmeyer, MD, Sharon Strong, MD, David Subin, MD, Rupa Subramanian, MD, Jeffrey Sugar, DO, Thomas Sullivan, MD, Stephen Summers, MD, Wynnshang Sun, MD, Shankar Sundaram, MD, Davis Suskind, MD, Merton Suzuki, MD, Lorna Swartz, MD, Lawrence Sweet, MD, Thomas Sweet, MD, Frank<br />

Swenson, MD, Paul Sylvan, MD, Daniel Synkowski, MD, George Szollar, MD, Sepehr Tabibzadeh, MD, Eugene Tachuk, MD, Peter Taft, MD, Steven Taggart, MD, Michael Takamura, MD, Mark Talamini, MD, Gregory Talavera, MD, Nojan Talebzadeh, MD, Mark Tamsen, MD, Cissy Tan, MD, <strong>San</strong>dra Tan, MD, Jane Tanaka, MD, Laurence Tanaka, MD, Lokesh Tantuwaya,<br />

MD, Vrijesh Tantuwaya, MD, Denis Tarakjian, MD, Salvatore Tarantino, MD, Neil Tarzy, MD, James Tasto, MD, Eric Taylor, MD, John Taylor, MD, William Taylor, MD, Neil Tayyab, MD, Donald Tecca, MD, Evelyn Tecoma, MD, Paul Teirstein, MD, Rowena Tena, MD, William Tench, MD, Mayer Tenenhaus, MD, Danny Terhorst, MD, Thomas Terramani, MD, Merrill Thayer,<br />

MD, Apurva Thekdi, MD, Lakshmi Thirunagari, MD, Michael Thoene, MD, David Thomas, MD, Jay Thomas, MD, Robert Thomas, MD, Theodore Thomas, MD, Blake Thompson, MD, Geoffrey Thompson, MD, James Thompson, MD, Janine Thompson, MD, Kent Thompson, MD, Caroline Thornton, MD, Naga Thota, MD, Richard Thunder, MD, Irineo Tiangco, MD, Simon<br />

Ticho, MD, Jennifer Ting, MD, Karen Tipler, MD, Alfredo Tiu, DO, Griselda Tiu, MD, Michael Tobin, MD, Kamei Tolba, MD, Darci Tom, MD, Mitsuo Tomita, MD, Robert Tonks, MD, Paul Tornambe, MD, Alex Torres, MD, Yonina Tova, MD, Steven Tradonsky, MD, Ton Tran, MD, Trung Tran, MD, Jennifer Trapp, MD, Paul Treger, MD, Laurier Tremblay, MD, Robert Trifunovic,<br />

MD, Maria Flora Trimor-Tamoria, MD, Prabhakar Tripuraneni, MD, Lino Trombetta, MD, Tere Trout, MD, Wayne True, MD, Alizabeth Truong, MD, My-Le Truong, MD, Sieu Truong, MD, Iwona Trybus, MD, William Tseng, MD, Vivian Tso, MD, Nicholas Tsoulos, MD, Glenn Tsukada, MD, Patricia Tsung, MD, Howard Tung, MD, Vivian Tung, MD, Jennifer Tuteur, MD, Laurie<br />

Tyrrell, MD, Hoi U, MD, Christopher Uchiyama, MD, Barry Uhl, MD, George Ulma, MD, Jeffrey Umansky, MD, James Underwood, MD, Gil Anthony Ungab, MD, Richard Unger, MD, Alexander Urioste, MD, Bernard Urlaub, MD, Leticia Uwedjojevwe, MD, Carmelita Uy, MD, Michael Van Buskirk, MD, Bruce Van Dam, MD, Theodorus van den Helder, MD, Kris Van Lom,<br />

MD, Raymond Vance, MD, Gary VandenBerg, MD, Karen Vander Wall, MD, Glenn Vanstrum, MD, Evan Vapnek, MD, Kalle Varav, MD, Robert Varney, MD, Randal Vecchione, MD, Thomas Vecchione, MD, Rene Vega, MD, Breda Velasquez, MD, Salvador Velazquez, MD, Sunnyline Vendiola, MD, Vijay Venkatesh, MD, Patricia Venn-Watson, MD, Michael Verdolin, MD,<br />

Fred Veretto, MD, John Verkleeren, MD, Daniel Vicario, MD, John Videen, MD, Matthew Viernes, MD, Gary Vilke, MD, Kenneth Villa, MD, Maria Villa, MD, Benito Villanueva, MD, Paul Volpp, MD, Charles Von Gunten, MD, Keith Vrhel, MD, David Vu, MD, Lac Vu, MD, Myloan Vu, MD, Deborah Wachs, MD, Ashish Wadhwa, MD, Manish Wadhwa, MD, Norman Waecker,<br />

MD, Glenn Wagner, DO, Paul Wagner, MD, Robert Wagner, MD, Udo Wahn, MD, Robert Wailes, MD, Gregory Wakeman, DO, Jordon Waldman, MD, Frederick Walker, MD, John Walker, MD, Richard Walker, MD, Anne Wallace, MD, Daniel Wallace, MD, Mark Wallace, MD, Sabina Wallach, MD, Richard Walls, MD, Joseph Walter, MD, Sheri Walter, MD, Christopher Walters,<br />

MD, Peter Walther, MD, Thomas Waltman, MD, Anita Walton, MD, Thomas Waltz, MD, Brian Wamsley, MD, Anchi Wang, MD, Emily Wang, MD, Lei Wang, MD, Shen Wang, MD, Clarence Ward, MD, Eric Wardrip, MD, Robert Warner, MD, Arthur Warshawsky, MD, Jack Wasserman, MD, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, MD, Lisa Wastila, MD, Deborah Watson, MD, Michael Weber,<br />

MD, Robin Wedberg, MD, Russell Weeks, MD, Noel Weidner, MD, Robert Weinreb, MD, Geoffrey Weinstein, MD, Robert Weisgrau, MD, Robert Weisman, MD, Donald Weiss, MD, Jack Weiss, MD, Marvin Weiss, MD, Michael Welch, MD, Vinit Wellis, MD, Pamela Wells, MD, John Welton, MD, Douglas Wemmer, MD, Dennis Wenger, MD, George Wesbey, MD, Alan Westeren,<br />

MD, L. Erik Westerlund, MD, Lynn Weston, MD, Charles Westover, MD, Daniel White, MD, Gary White, MD, Vernon White, MD, Neysa Whiteman, MD, Anthony Whitney, MD, Christine Whitten, MD, Mark Wiederhold, MD, Gregory Wiener, MD, Harvey Wieseltier, MD, Julie Wilcox, MD, <strong>San</strong>dra Wilcox, MD, Mary Wilde, MD, Jonathan Wilensky, MD, John Willems, MD, Gary<br />

Williams, MD, Howard Williams, MD, Larry Williams, MD, Jack Wilson, MD, O. Wilson, MD, Stephen Wilson, MD, William Wilson, MD, Lise Wiltse, MD, Nelar Wine, MD, Terry Winegar, MD, Kenneth Wingler, MD, Douglas Winter, MD, William Winternitz, MD, Curtis Winters, MD, Frank Winton, MD, Morris Wisniewski, MD, Izabela Witczak, MD, Alan Wittgrove, MD, Perri<br />

Wittgrove, MD, Richard Wolf, MD, James Wolosin, MD, Calvin Wong, MD, DeeAnn Wong, MD, Kin Wong, MD, Michael Wong, MD, Robert Wong, MD, Lawrence Wood, MD, Samuel Wood, MD, Glenn Woodworth, MD, Paul Woody, MD, Wilma Wooten, MD, Scott Worman, MD, Michael Worsey, MD, Howard Worthen, MD, Bernard Wosk, MD, Paul Wozniak, MD, John Wright,<br />

MD, Wendy Wright, MD, Joseph Wroblicka, MD, Justin Wu, MD, Patricia Wu, MD, Veda Wu, MD, Zhao Wu, MD, Elizabeth Wulfert, MD, Vell Wyatt, MD, Brenton Wynn, MD, Yin Xu, MD, Jack Yang, MD, Peter Yang, MD, Therese Yang, MD, Catheryn Yashar, MD, Patrick Yassini, MD, Mario Yco, MD, Jay Yew, MD, Subashini Yogeswaren, MD, Yin-Vui Yong, MD, Carla Young,<br />

MD, Carol Young, MD, Edmond Young, MD, John Young, MD, Philip Young, MD, Robert Young, MD, Stuart Young, MD, Thomas Young, MD, Theophilos Yphantides, MD, Eric Yu, MD, Robert Yuhas, MD, Todd Zaayer, MD, Marvin Zaguli, MD, Aaron Zaheer, MD, Angelica Zaid, MD, Jose Zamora, MD, Barry Zamost, MD, Fernando Zamudio, MD, Steven Zane, MD, Maryam<br />

Zarei, MD, Suhail Zavaro, MD, Heywood Zeidman, MD, Roger Zeman, MD, Phillip Zentner, MD, Matthew Zetumer, MD, Yuan Zhong, MD, Robert Ziering, MD, Eric Zimmer, MD, Andrew Zimmerman, MD, Marc Zinser, MD, Michael Zirpolo, MD, Bradley Zlotnick, MD, Paul Zlotnik, MD, George Zorn, MD, Kai Zu, MD, Geoffrey Zubay, MD, Nicholas Zubyk, MD<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Society</strong><br />

ANNUAL REPORT<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Society</strong><br />

ANNUAL REPORT<br />

Qualcomm Stadium<br />

During the October 2007<br />

Wildfire Evacuations<br />

PHOTO BY JASON WATKINS<br />

“Physicians United for a Healthy <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>”<br />

“Physicians United for a Healthy <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>”


An Overwhelmingly Successful Year!<br />

Everything SDCMS and CMA accomplished in 2007 — every bill we sponsored and lobbied to get enacted, every anti-physician/antipatient<br />

bill we opposed and defeated, every health plan battle we won, and every dollar we put back into our member physicians’<br />

pockets with our broad portfolio of tangible, members-only benefits — was accomplished because physicians, like yourself, chose<br />

to act. No other organization, no specialty society, no ethnic society, no physician group is as effective in advocating for its physicians and<br />

for their patients as are SDCMS and CMA — and our effectiveness follows directly from our ability to speak as one and to speak for our<br />

profession as a whole. As you read this, your 2007 SDCMS <strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong>, keep in mind that every accomplishment listed is an accomplishment<br />

you made happen. Congratulations on an overwhelmingly successful year — and thank you for your membership in SDCMS-CMA.<br />

ADVOCACY ADVOCACY BENEFITS BENEFITS FINANCIALS FINANCIALS ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION<br />

FOUNDATION<br />

CMA CMA DELIVERS MULTIPLE MULTIPLE VICTORIES IN SACRAMENTO<br />

SACRAMENTO<br />

From the beginning of the 2007 legislative session, doctors, patients, and the practice of medicine<br />

were under siege in Sacramento. Governor Schwarzenegger wanted to levy a 2% tax on physicians’<br />

gross revenues. Nurse practitioners, acupuncturists, psychologists, and others aggressively sought to<br />

expand their scopes of practice. And managed care companies ignored the state prohibition on<br />

rescinding contracts after doctors had provided treatment. By the end of the session, the 2% tax was<br />

off the table, every attempt at non-physician scope of practice expansion was defeated, and a bill was<br />

passed that prohibits insurance companies from cancelling or modifying contracts after a physician<br />

provides treatment.<br />

None of this happened by chance. Simply put, if the California <strong>Medical</strong> Association did not exist,<br />

no other organization has the resources, the lobbyists, and the relationships to defend physicians’<br />

interests — all physicians — in Sacramento. Below is a list of bills and proposals that CMA’s powerful<br />

and effective Government Relations team passed through the legislature or defeated in 2007 on<br />

behalf of California’s physicians and patients.<br />

CMA-SPONSORED LEGISLATION<br />

• Whistleblower Protection (AB 632): Clarifies that physicians are protected as whistleblowers when<br />

information is given to a healthcare facility, government accreditation committee, or peer review body.<br />

Signed by the governor!<br />

• Routine HIV Screening (AB 682): Facilitates routine screening for HIV in all healthcare settings, as<br />

recommended by the CDC. Signed by the governor!<br />

• Medi-Cal Physician Enrollment (AB 1226): Helps facilitate physician enrollment in the Medi-Cal<br />

program by shortening the time the Department of Health Services (DHS) has to process physician<br />

applications. Signed by the governor!<br />

• Retroactive Policy Cancellation (AB 1324): Protects patients and physicians by prohibiting attempts<br />

by HMOs and insurance companies from retroactively rescinding or modifying treatment authorizations<br />

after the treatment has been provided by the physician in good faith. Signed by the governor!<br />

CMA-OPPOSED LEGISLATION:<br />

• All 2007 scope of practice expansion attempts were killed! Acupuncturists (AB 636), physical therapists<br />

(AB 1444), nurse practitioners (AB 1643), psychologists (SB 993), and audiologists (SB 557)<br />

all attempted to expand their respective scopes of practice in 2007 — and CMA killed every single<br />

scope of practice bill!<br />

• Other anti-physician bills killed! AB 425 would have exempted from the motorcycle helmet law a<br />

driver 18 years of age or older who had either completed a motorcycle rider training program or been<br />

issued a class M1 license or endorsement or a comparable license or endorsement from another jurisdiction<br />

— Killed! AB 1276 would have made it unprofessional conduct for each instance that a physician<br />

wrote a prescription without specifically asking the patient if they would like the intended purpose<br />

of the drug to be written on the prescription label — Killed! SB 389 would have prohibited outof-network<br />

hospital-based physicians working at hospitals that had contracts with HMOs from<br />

billing enrollees of HMOs, effectively allowing HMOs to unilaterally set rates for out-of-network<br />

emergency care — Killed!<br />

GOVERNOR’S HEALTHCARE REFORM PROPOSAL<br />

While the demise of Governor Schwarzenegger’s health plan was unfortunate, the critical issue<br />

for physicians was CMA’s ability to kill the 2% tax on physician gross receipts. CMA, in combination<br />

with many county medical societies, including a vociferous SDCMS, successfully killed this<br />

unfair tax, all the while remaining a critical participant in the year-long discussions that followed.<br />

Most notably and within days of the governor’s announced reform proposal, SDCMS president,<br />

Theodore Mazer, penned an op-ed entitled “Doctors Must Be at the Center of the Debate,” which<br />

was published in the February 16, 2007, issue of The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Union-Tribune.<br />

NATIONAL NATIONAL LOBBYING LOBBYING<br />

Legislation was again signed “just in time” at the<br />

beginning of 2007 to stop a scheduled 5% Medicare<br />

cut and at the end of 2007 to postpone a 10% cut<br />

(10.7% for <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s physicians) to July 1,<br />

2008. SDCMS, CMA, and AMA continue to lobby<br />

Congress to stop current and future Medicare cuts, as<br />

well as to update the (un)Sustainable Growth Rate formula<br />

(SGR) and the inequitable Geographic Practice<br />

Cost Index (GPCI). While Congress failed to resolve<br />

either the SGR or the GPCI issues in 2007, SDCMS<br />

continues to have unfailing support<br />

from all of our <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

congressional representatives and<br />

California’s two senators.<br />

SDCMS Physicians Represent<br />

Your Interests in Washington, DC:<br />

Along with representing <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong>’s physicians at AMA’s <strong>annual</strong><br />

and interim meetings, SDCMS<br />

physician leaders travel every spring<br />

to Washington, DC, to lobby federal<br />

legislators, including <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong>’s congressional representatives<br />

and their staffers, and<br />

California’s two senators and their<br />

staffers, on federal issues, including<br />

the need to stop current and future<br />

Medicare cuts as well as the need to<br />

update the (un)Sustainable Growth<br />

Rate formula (SGR) Geographic<br />

Practice Cost Index (GPCI)<br />

Left to Right: 2007<br />

SDCMS President, Dr.<br />

Albert Ray, Legislative<br />

Committee Chair, Dr.<br />

Robert Hertzka,<br />

Immediate Past<br />

President, Dr.<br />

Theodore Mazer, and<br />

Board Member, Dr.<br />

Robert Wailes, in<br />

Washington, DC, to<br />

lobby Congress.<br />

inequities by which <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s physicians are<br />

grossly underpaid relative to their physician colleagues<br />

across California living in equivalent urban settings.<br />

SDCMS Fighting to Fix the GPCI Inequity! After<br />

over four years of sustained advocacy, the <strong>County</strong> of <strong>San</strong><br />

<strong>Diego</strong> in June 2007 joined six other counties in suing<br />

the federal government for retroactive and prospective<br />

Geographic Practice Cost Index (GPCI) relief to bring<br />

Medicare geographic payment equity to <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong> physicians and other impacted counties and<br />

states — approximately $160 million for <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong>’s physicians alone, and over $2.4 billion nationally<br />

for physicians in the 174 underpaid counties.<br />

SDCMS thanks <strong>County</strong> Supervisor Ron Roberts for his<br />

aggressive leadership and support of this critical physician<br />

issue. This is a huge achievement and a direct result<br />

of over three years of ceaseless work by SDCMS’ physician<br />

leadership.


ADVOCATING ADVOCATING LOCALLY LOCALLY<br />

SDCMS Brings $3 Million to <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong>’s Maddy Fund: SDCMS fought hard in<br />

2007 to ensure that the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Board<br />

of Supervisors knew it could apply an additional<br />

$2 levy for every $10 imposed on fines, penalties,<br />

and bail forfeitures (SB 1773), and, once it was on<br />

the board’s radar, fought even harder to get it<br />

approved! These extra emergency and trauma service<br />

funds for our region are the direct result of<br />

SDCMS action, along with the work of<br />

Supervisors Greg Cox and Pam Slater-Price!<br />

SDCMS Monitors <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s<br />

Physician Workforce Trends: In 2007, we conducted<br />

our third <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Physician<br />

Workforce and Compensation Survey — alone in<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> and across California when it<br />

comes to monitoring our physician workforce in<br />

order to ensure physician shortages, whether actual<br />

or projected, can be identified before they result<br />

in access-to-care crises.<br />

SDCMS Is Ensuring <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

Physicians Are Heard! SDCMS physician leaders<br />

and staff continue to ensure your voice is being<br />

heard whenever and wherever healthcare policy<br />

discussions are held in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> by sitting<br />

on tens of community healthcare organization<br />

boards and committees. As well, SDCMS<br />

sends its physician leaders to Sacramento twice a<br />

year to lobby <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s state assemblymembers<br />

and senators.<br />

RICO: RICO: ANOTHER ANOTHER $1.25 $1.25 MILLION MILLION<br />

CMA Brings $1.25 Million to <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong> Physicians With Another RICO<br />

Settlement! CMA’s RICO class-action lawsuit<br />

challenging the rapacious tactics of the for-profit<br />

managed care industry saw a further settlement in<br />

2007, directing millions more dollars to <strong>San</strong><br />

<strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s physicians. Of even greater significance<br />

than the $40 million Humana settlement<br />

(roughly $1.25 million of which came to <strong>San</strong><br />

<strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> physicians) is the settlement’s<br />

prospective relief, which is valued at more than<br />

$80 million. The following award amounts were<br />

received in 2007 by <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> physician<br />

groups, with a total approaching $800,000:<br />

• Scripps <strong>Medical</strong> Group: $188,541<br />

• Sharp Rees-Stealy <strong>Medical</strong> Group: $144,297<br />

• UCSD <strong>Medical</strong> Group: $106,577<br />

• Anesthesia Service <strong>Medical</strong> Group: $103,196<br />

• Emergency and Acute Care <strong>Medical</strong><br />

Corporation: $97,265<br />

• Children’s Specialists of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>: $45,193<br />

• Sharp Mission Park <strong>Medical</strong> Group: $35,347<br />

• Children’s Primary Care <strong>Medical</strong> Group,<br />

Inc.: $24,494<br />

• Park Terrace <strong>Medical</strong> Association: $21,944<br />

• Mercy Physicians <strong>Medical</strong> Group: $14,056<br />

CMA as well continued to monitor the health<br />

plans in 2007 to ensure they abided by the terms<br />

of their RICO settlements. CMA filed disputes<br />

after discovering Health Net, CIGNA, and Blue<br />

Cross had each violated the terms of their respective<br />

RICO settlements in 2007.<br />

VICTORIES VICTORIES OVER OVER HEALTH HEALTH PLANS PLANS<br />

No single organization or coalition of organizations<br />

in California — bar none — is capable<br />

of acting as watchdog to the nefarious actions<br />

of California’s health plans, ensuring they abide by<br />

the law! Below is a partial list of the reprehensible<br />

actions taken by health plans in 2007 that, if not<br />

for CMA — and CMA alone! — would not have<br />

been stopped:<br />

• In January, Blue Cross changed its medical and<br />

reimbursement policies in violation of California’s<br />

unfair payment practices legislation. Stopped!<br />

• In March, Blue Cross demanded that physicians<br />

and their attorneys sign its “confidentiality agreement”<br />

as part of the contract negotiations. Stopped!<br />

• In March, PacifiCare/United Healthcare illegally<br />

implemented a new laboratory policy. Stopped!<br />

• In March, PacifiCare/United Healthcare<br />

improperly denied claims for services provided to<br />

patients with “point-of-service” plans. Stopped!<br />

• In April, Blue Cross violated state law by canceling<br />

individual health insurance coverage after policyholders<br />

got sick. Stopped!<br />

• In May, Blue Cross violated state law and the<br />

terms of its RICO settlement by implementing a<br />

fee schedule change. Stopped!<br />

• In May, PacifiCare/United Healthcare committed<br />

133,000 violations of state laws and regulations.<br />

Corrected!<br />

• In June, Blue Cross mistakenly paid some physician<br />

claims at the new fee schedule rather than the<br />

current fee schedule. Corrected!<br />

• In September, Blue Cross’s Prudent Buyer contract<br />

is found inconsistent with state laws and regulations,<br />

including the Knox-Keene Act. Stopped!<br />

• Between October and November 2007, United<br />

Healthcare inappropriately denied nearly 12,000<br />

claims as a result of a system glitch. Corrected!<br />

• In January 2008, United Healthcare required<br />

that physicians notify it before admitting patients to<br />

the hospital, mandating that if physicians don’t<br />

comply, they will not be paid. Stopped!<br />

• In January 2008, Blue Cross asked physicians to<br />

provide information on new patients that it<br />

planned to then use to cancel the patient’s medical<br />

coverage. Stopped!<br />

SDCMS SDCMS AND AND THE THE WILDFIRES WILDFIRES<br />

Along with providing a volunteer hub for <strong>San</strong><br />

<strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s physicians and patients during<br />

the October 2007 wildfires, SDCMS facilitated<br />

the volunteer activities of 96 physician and 28<br />

non-physician<br />

volunteers,<br />

extended its<br />

operating hours<br />

in order to monitor<br />

conditions<br />

as they developed,<br />

keeping<br />

physicians upto-date<br />

via<br />

emails, faxes, and continual updates to its website.<br />

Both SDCMS and CMA as well came to the assistance<br />

of member and nonmember physicians who<br />

lost their houses or practices by waiving those<br />

physicians’ 2008 dues.<br />

PROTECTING PROTECTING MICRA MICRA<br />

It can almost be guaranteed that physicians 50<br />

years old or younger will witness during their<br />

professional lifetimes a California governor trying<br />

to undo MICRA, California’s <strong>Medical</strong> Injury<br />

Compensation Reform Act, which has kept professional<br />

liability insurance premiums reasonable<br />

since 1975. MICRA continues to protect physicians<br />

because CMA continues to defend it, and<br />

because grassroots physicians continue to thwart<br />

the trial lawyers’ repeated efforts to increase the<br />

non-economic cap on damages. Because of<br />

MICRA, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> physicians saved an<br />

average $59,456.96 in 2007.<br />

KEEPING KEEPING THE THE DMHC DMHC HONEST HONEST<br />

In November 2007, with California’s<br />

Department of Managed<br />

Health Care (DMHC) once<br />

again proposing regulations<br />

to prohibit non-contracted<br />

physicians from billing<br />

patients for emergency services,<br />

SDCMS organized a<br />

strong grassroots protest<br />

culminating in 25 SDCMS<br />

physicians showing up in<br />

force on November 14,<br />

CMA Speaker of the<br />

House, Dr. James Hay,<br />

testifying before the<br />

DMHC.<br />

2007, at a public hearing on the proposed regulations.<br />

SDCMS physicians’ superb response coupled<br />

with intensive CMA lobbying stopped the<br />

DMHC from abolishing balance billing.<br />

SDCMS SDCMS OUT OUT IN FRONT FRONT<br />

• SDCMS Bioethics Commission: In 2007<br />

SDCMS formed a Bioethics Commission, bringing<br />

together all of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>’s bioethics committees<br />

in order to work together to advance “best<br />

practices” within each hospital ethics committee.<br />

• 2007 Health Care Champions:<br />

Congratulations to SDCMS members Ellen Beck,<br />

MD, Irving Jake Jacoby, MD, Patrick Lyden, MD,<br />

Theodore Mazer, MD, and Mark Stern, MD, for<br />

being chosen as the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Business Journal’s<br />

first-<strong>annual</strong> Health Care Champions.<br />

• SDCMS Leadership Growth in 2007:<br />

SDCMS’ board of directors gained 11 new members<br />

in 2007 — physicians who have never been<br />

involved in organized medicine — and added,<br />

because of membership growth, three new directors,<br />

including a new geographic director for<br />

South Bay.<br />

PHOTO BY JASON WATKINS<br />

• CMA’s Chief<br />

Executive Officer,<br />

Joe Dunn, came to<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

twice in 2007 for a<br />

series of town hall<br />

meetings at various<br />

hospitals and with<br />

different medical<br />

groups, giving brief<br />

overviews of the latest legal, economic, and political<br />

issues taking place in Sacramento and<br />

Washington, DC, and discussing with <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

<strong>County</strong>’s physicians their concerns.


SDCMS SDCMS EXPANDS EXPANDS ITS MEMBER MEMBER AND AND OFFICE OFFICE MANAGER MANAGER BENEFITS BENEFITS<br />

Your SDCMS Physician Advocate Solving Your<br />

Problems: In 2007, your SDCMS physician<br />

advocate, Marisol Gonzalez, resolved on average<br />

15 complex physician issues per month, comprising<br />

economic advocacy issues, legal advocacy<br />

issues, and membership issues. Please take advantage<br />

of your SDCMS physician advocate’s problem-solving<br />

capabilities and SDCMS’ robust database<br />

of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), which<br />

we will make available on our website in 2008!<br />

Partnering With Alliant to Bring Members<br />

Discounts on Insurance Products and Services:<br />

SDCMS partnered with insurance broker Alliant<br />

Insurance Services in 2007 to offer our members<br />

5–10% discounts or more on a comprehensive<br />

portfolio of insurance products and services.<br />

The Doctors Company Continues Its Discount<br />

While Adding Further Benefits: SDCMS continued<br />

its partnership with The Doctors Company<br />

(TDC) in 2007, offering our members who use<br />

TDC a 5% discount on their professional liability<br />

insurance. In 2007, TDC added a 7.5% dividend<br />

credit to the existing 5% SDCMS members-only<br />

discount, as well as its Tribute Plan, an individual<br />

balance that accumulates each year until the physician<br />

reaches the age of 55 or older, has five or more<br />

years of continuous coverage with TDC, and<br />

retires from the practice of medicine.<br />

EMR Software: SDCMS partnered with<br />

Allscripts in 2007 to provide our members with<br />

special preferred early adopter pricing and discounts<br />

on Allscripts’ HealthMatics EHR and practice<br />

management solutions.<br />

Additional Member Benefits in 2007: We hope<br />

you continue to take advantage of our other exciting<br />

benefits, such as:<br />

• a free physician mailing list <strong>annual</strong>ly<br />

• car insurance discounts with AAA<br />

• discounts on tamper-resistant prescription pads<br />

• free classifieds in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Physician and on<br />

our website<br />

• a free California emergency<br />

driving emblem<br />

• contract negotiations, billing,<br />

collections, and practice management<br />

consulting available to<br />

our members at significant discounts.<br />

Benefits for Your Office Manager:<br />

• SDCMS significantly increased our free office<br />

manager seminar program in 2007.<br />

• We hired a new office manager advocate specifically<br />

to address your office managers’ needs.<br />

• We dedicated our August 2007 issue of <strong>San</strong><br />

<strong>Diego</strong> Physician to our physicians’ office managers.<br />

• We convened an office manager roundtable to<br />

discuss their issues and how SDCMS could help.<br />

• We hosted eight <strong>Medical</strong> Group Management<br />

Association (MGMA) meetings in 2007<br />

• We now have a certified coder on staff at<br />

SDCMS to help with their coding questions!<br />

SDCMS’ Database — The Best Physician<br />

Database in the State! SDCMS spends an enormous<br />

amount of time keeping our database current.<br />

Our database for members and nonmembers<br />

alike has improved and now fully reflects board<br />

certification for all <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> physicians,<br />

including information from the American<br />

Osteopathic Association.<br />

Making Physician NPIs Available to Members:<br />

In order to assist our members with their billing in<br />

2007, SDCMS collected all Type 1 and many<br />

Type 2 NPIs for <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s physicians.<br />

SDCMS members are able to download these<br />

NPIs anytime from the members-only section of<br />

our SDCMS website.<br />

Members Now Able to Pay Their Dues Online<br />

— And Nonmembers Able to Join Online As<br />

Well: In 2007, SDCMS gave our members the<br />

capacity to pay their dues online and for nonmember<br />

physicians and medical students to join<br />

instantly online. Members can now refer prospective<br />

new members directly to www.SDCMS.org to<br />

apply.<br />

Tamper-resistant Prescriptions Pads: SDCMS<br />

partnered with American Security Rx to offer<br />

members prescription form discounts of 19–62%,<br />

the lowest pricing available! This was particularly<br />

beneficial to many members who have to, beginning<br />

April 1, 2008, write Medi-Cal prescriptions<br />

on tamper-resistant pads.<br />

SDCMS 2007 Pictorial<br />

Membership Directory:<br />

SDCMS completely<br />

redesigned our <strong>annual</strong><br />

directory in 2007,<br />

enlarging the format<br />

and increasing the<br />

resources included. We<br />

also continued our partnership with a<br />

photography company to have our members’ photos<br />

professionally taken free of charge.<br />

Providing You and Your Staff the<br />

Seminars You Want! SDCMS continued<br />

to build a robust schedule of free<br />

seminars held throughout the year for<br />

our physician members and their staff<br />

in 2007:<br />

• 9 Risk Management Seminars<br />

• 1 Contracting Seminar<br />

• 1 Getting Paid Seminar<br />

• 1 Coding Seminar<br />

• 2 Resident/New Physician Practice Workshops<br />

• 2 Legal Seminars<br />

• 2 Health Information Technology Seminars<br />

• 1 HIPAA Seminar<br />

• 1 Five-week Certified <strong>Medical</strong> Coder Course<br />

STAFF TIME, G&A — 14%<br />

RENT — 11%<br />

MISCELLANEOUS — 4%<br />

TELEPHONE — 2%<br />

CONTINGENCY — 2%<br />

2% — ACCOUNTING<br />

2% — CONTRACTORS<br />

1% — INSURANCE<br />

1% — CONSUMABLES<br />

1% — COPIER<br />

SDCMS SDCMS MEMBERSHIP<br />

MEMBERSHIP<br />

Increasing our membership numbers in each of<br />

the past five years, the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

<strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Society</strong> has outperformed every other<br />

county medical society in California! In 2007,<br />

SDCMS became CMA’s third-largest component<br />

medical society, behind only the Los Angeles<br />

<strong>County</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> Association and the <strong>San</strong>ta Clara<br />

<strong>County</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> Association. And because of our<br />

aggressive efforts to grow our numbers, SDCMS<br />

seated a third trustee on the CMA board of<br />

trustees.<br />

MEMBERSHIP CONTINUES TO GROW!<br />

2,450<br />

2,400<br />

2,350<br />

2,300<br />

2,250<br />

2,200<br />

2,150<br />

2,100<br />

2,050<br />

2,000<br />

2029 2056<br />

2163 2195<br />

2390 2419<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

2<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

3<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

4<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

5<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

6<br />

SDCMS SDCMS FINANCES FINANCES<br />

SDCMS’ financial position is excellent.<br />

SDCMS closed out the 2007 fiscal year in the<br />

black, the sixth time in six years, and added<br />

$340,000 to its reserves. SDCMS has kept its dues<br />

low — we have only raised dues once, from $350<br />

to $380, in the past 20 years — while dramatically<br />

expanding services (CMA dues = $545).<br />

INFRASTRUCTURE<br />

SDCMS SDCMS INCOME INCOME<br />

59% — DUES<br />

28% — INVESTMENTS<br />

7% — ADVERTISING & SALES<br />

3% — SPONSORSHIPS<br />

2% — AMA/CMA COMMISSION<br />

1% — MISCELLANEOUS<br />

59%<br />

SDCMS SDCMS EXPENSES EXPENSES<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

7<br />

40% — INFRASTRUCTURE<br />

17% — COMMUNICATIONS<br />

14% — GOVERNANCE<br />

11% — ENGAGEMENT<br />

9% — BENEFITS<br />

8% — ADVOCACY<br />

1% — DATA<br />

40%<br />

1%<br />

17%<br />

1%<br />

2%<br />

8%<br />

7%<br />

3%<br />

28%<br />

14%<br />

11%<br />

9%


PRSRT STD<br />

U.S. POSTAGE<br />

PAID<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>, CA<br />

Permit #99<br />

ENGAGING ENGAGING PHYSICIANS PHYSICIANS<br />

SDCMS Young Physicians Socials: In March,<br />

September, and November 2007, SDCMS hosted<br />

young physician and resident networking socials,<br />

each attracting upwards of 40 physicians and<br />

spouses/significant others.<br />

SDCMS CEO at General Staff Meetings /<br />

<strong>Medical</strong> Executive Committee Meetings:<br />

SDCMS’ CEO, Tom Gehring, presented at a total<br />

of 20 <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> hospital general staff and<br />

medical executive committee meetings in 2007.<br />

SDCMS’ 137th Annual Installation Dinner &<br />

Dance (June 16, 2007): SDCMS installed Dr.<br />

Albert Ray as our 137th president in 2007, along<br />

with the rest of our 2007 leadership team, at the<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Marriott Hotel and Marina. We had a<br />

total of 225 guests in attendance, including<br />

Congresswoman Susan Davis, Assemblywoman<br />

Mary Salas, Assemblyman Joel<br />

Anderson, Supervisor Dianne<br />

Jacob, Senator Mark Wyland,<br />

and district representatives for<br />

Congressman Brian Bilbray,<br />

Congressman, Filner and Senator<br />

Ducheny.<br />

CONTACT SDCMS TODAY:<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Society</strong><br />

5575 Ruffin Road, Suite 250<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>, CA 92123<br />

T: (858) 565-8888<br />

F: (858) 569-1334<br />

E: SDCMS@SDCMS.org<br />

W: www.SDCMS.org<br />

“Physicians United for a Healthy <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>”<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Society</strong><br />

5575 Ruffin Road, Suite 250<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong>, CA 92123<br />

COMMUNICATING COMMUNICATING TO, FOR, FOR, AND AND FROM FROM SDCMS SDCMS PHYSICIANS PHYSICIANS<br />

February 16, 2007, Union-Tribune Op-ed by SDCMS President on Governor’s and Other<br />

Healthcare Proposals — “Doctors Must Be at the Center of Debate”: The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Union-Tribune<br />

on February 16, 2007, published an op-ed signed by SDCMS president, Dr. Theodore Mazer, which<br />

detailed SDCMS’ position on Governor Schwarzenegger’s healthcare proposals, along with competing<br />

proposals before the California legislature.<br />

Citations From Leadership Quotes in Media: SDCMS’ physician leadership was contacted almost daily<br />

in 2007 when <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s print and broadcast media outlets needed a medical expert to comment<br />

on a story or explain an issue. The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Union-Tribune, The North <strong>County</strong> Times, The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong><br />

Business Journal, KPBS radio and television, KGTV Channel 10 (ABC), KNSD TV (NBC), XETV (Fox),<br />

and KFMB Channel 8 (CBS) all turn to SDCMS whenever they want the physician’s perspective. In March<br />

2007, for example, the Union-Tribune quoted Dr. Theodore Mazer for its “Boosting Medi-Cal viewed as<br />

first step” story: “The reimbursement rates are awful. Every time I see a Medi-Cal patient, I pay for the privilege.<br />

Now that may be about to change.” If you’ve heard us the radio, seen our physician leaders on TV, or<br />

read SDCMS quoted in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s print media, those media opportunities were a direct result of<br />

our communications advocacy on our members’ behalf.<br />

SDCMS’ E-newsletter: In 2007, 24 SDCMS’ “News You Can Use” email newsletters reached approximately<br />

2,600 physicians every two to three weeks, up from 2,100 in 2006. We’ve<br />

increased content and frequency, and have made our e-newsletter a critical tool in<br />

helping our members and other <strong>San</strong> stay informed of the latest news that directly<br />

affects their practices and their patients. Be sure you’re signed up!<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Physician Magazine: Our monthly magazine, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Physician, an<br />

incredibly rich source of information for physicians and their office staff, now<br />

reaches all of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s practicing physicians, along with area hospitals,<br />

libraries, legislators, allied healthcare professionals, retired physicians, community<br />

health organizations, area healthcare stakeholders, and local media every<br />

month. The look and feel, as well as the content, have dramatically improved in<br />

the last year. As of the printing of this <strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong>, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Physician has<br />

been chosen as a finalist in the 2007 Western Publications Association <strong>annual</strong><br />

Maggie Awards for “Most Improved Trade Publication” with a circulation under<br />

50,000. Thank you to all of our member physicians who supply us with incredibly<br />

topical and actionable articles! Be sure you’re getting your copy!<br />

SDCMS’ Website: Our website, www.SDCMS.org, is averaging thousands of<br />

hits per month (126,990 clicks in November 2007 alone). We continued in<br />

2007 to increase our members-only website resources (to log in, all you need<br />

is your name and birth date), including specialty-specific compensation data from our 2007 Physician<br />

Workforce and Compensation Survey, all <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Type 1 NPI numbers and many Type 2s, webcasts<br />

of SDCMS’ seminars, CME information, a bulletin board, and much more. SDCMS’ physician member<br />

office managers also have access to the members-only section, where they can retrieve information and<br />

resources on professional associations, useful articles, SDCMS Office Managers Forums information and<br />

webcasts, and much more. Be sure you’re registered to access the “Member Physicians” section!


SDCMS Foundation 2007 Annual Report<br />

OUR MISSION: “addressing unmet <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> health care needs for all patients and<br />

physicians through innovation, education and service”<br />

SDCMS SDCMS FOUNDATION FOUNDATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2007 2007<br />

Project Access <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> (PASD) is a countywide physician initiative to connect uninsured and<br />

underinsured <strong>San</strong> Diegans with volunteer physicians for pro-bono and discounted care.<br />

• PASD attained the staff and resources of Reach Out to provide Care Coordination services for its<br />

patients.<br />

• PASD has received $223,000 in grant funding:<br />

– $158,000 from Alliance Healthcare Foundation for Care Coordination<br />

– $15,000 from Grossmont Healthcare District for physician and resource recruitment in East <strong>County</strong><br />

– $25,000 from <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Board of Supervisors Chairman Greg Cox for technical upgrades,<br />

website development, and marketing materials<br />

– $20,000 from Supervisor Ron Roberts, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Board of Supervisors, for technical<br />

upgrades, website development and marketing materials<br />

37% — UNRESTRICTED, MEDICAL STUDENT LOANS ($233,702)<br />

26% — UNRESTRICTED, GENERAL ($165,260)<br />

15% — RESTRICTED, PROJECT GRANT INCOME ($95,194)<br />

13% — ENDOWMENT, SIMON-HERTZKA FUND FOR MEDICAL STUDENT ADVOCACY TRAINING ($80,559)<br />

9% — UNRESTRICTED, STUDENT LOANS OUTSTANDING ($55,956)<br />

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