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Daniel T. Dempsey, MD, MBA, FACS
PRESIDENT

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PRESIDENT ELECT

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Michael DellaVecchia, MD, PhD, FACS
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Healing with Both Medicine
and Art... Face to Face:
The Craniofacial Program
Portrait Project

Max E. Mercado, MD

25 What's Next for the Affordable
Care Act

28 MedTalks@Drexel:

Innovation in Medicine

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TREASURER

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Physicians for Social
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Philadelphia PCMS

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Targeting the Tobacco Scourge
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The Lewis Katz School of
Medicineat Temple University...

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Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, JD
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