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ANNUAL MEETING REPORT
RESOLVED, That the Medical Society of Delaware Government Affairs Committee work with our state legislators to enact legislation committing to neutrality
with respect to atmospheric greenhouse emissions for all state and local government operations by 2035; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Medical Society of Delaware Government Affairs Committee urge our state and federal legislators
to commit to producing clean energy utilizing offshore and onshore wind projects; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Medical Society of Delaware Government Affairs Committee work with our state legislators to transition to healthier and more pedestrian-friendly communities; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Medical Society
of Delaware urge the American Medical Association to work to transition our
food system to one that favors healthier nutrition based on consumption of whole plant foods with less reliance on unhealthy and carbon intensive animal products.
BYLAWS
There were no Bylaws changes presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council.
ABSOLUTION RESOLUTION
The Council adopted the following Resolution:
RESOLVED, That each and all the resolutions, acts, and proceedings of the Executive Board of the Medical Society of Delaware heretofore adopted since the last meeting of the Council of the Medical Society of Delaware as shown by the records of the minutes and all the acts of Society in carrying out and promoting the purposes, objectives, and interests of this Society since the last Council meeting are the acts and deeds of the Medical Society of Delaware.
INFORMATIONAL REPORTS
Informational reports were submitted to the Council from MSD’s committees, sections, subsidiaries, and charitable foundations, as well as reports from the Delaware Delegation to the American Medical Association and Delaware medical specialty societies. The reports
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Two education sessions were presented virtually on Thursday, November 19, 2020, providing a maximum of 1.5 continuing medical education credits
to be claimed by participating in both educational sessions. This year’s educational program focused on medical implications of climate change.
The Lewis B. Flinn Lecture began
the educational program with speaker Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Director of the Program for Climate
and Health in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Sarfaty presented “A Physician’s Response to Climate Change.”
Stephen J. Kushner, DO introduces the MSD Education Program.
She discussed the health impacts of climate change that are affecting patients in Delaware and surrounding states, how fossil fuel emissions are trapping heat
and warming the earth’s atmosphere, as well as informing physicians on what they can do to address climate change and the emerging needs of their patients and communities relating to climate change.
Caleb Dresser, MD, the Harvard University 2019-2021 Climate and Human Health Fellow from the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, presented “The Clinical Implications of Climate Change in the Mid- Atlantic Region.” He focused on probable clinical impacts of climate change in the Mid- Atlantic Region, the urban heat-island effect and how it can affect patients in concert
with other determinants of health, and safe discharge practices so that patients will not
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