p h i l a m e d s o c .o rg ADVOCACY Pennsylvania Medical Society House of Delegates Approves PCMS Safe Injection Site Resolution By: Mark Austerberry, PCMS Executive Director The Philadelphia County Medical Society The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) House of Delegates approved (PCMS) delegation consisted of 63 voting a resolution endorsing safe injection delegates. Serving on the PCMS delegation sites. The resolution called for an in- carries with it the responsibility of representing dependently funded and studied pilot the physicians of Philadelphia County, but it trial for such a site. PAMED's House also provides an opportunity to influence the of Delegates called for the facility to policies of organized medicine. This year the be in keeping with multinational evi- PCMS delegates deliberated on 30 resolutions and 15 reports and elected trustees and officers. dence-based medicine. For a complete listing of the 2019 PAMED The Pennsylvania Medical Society HOD resolutions, please check out PAMED (PAMED) House of Delegates meeting was website at www.pamed.org. held Oct. 26-27, in Hershey. The HOD is the society's policymaking body. It is made up of nearly 275 elected members. During the two-day meeting held each year, it deliberates and acts on issues related to health policy, managed care, public health, programming, and society administration. continued on next page Fall/Winter 2019 : Philadelphia Medicine 11http://www.pamed.org