By Nadia Smith Past CMA President and long-time member Dr. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot has been awarded the Mary Newman Advocacy Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP) – Maryland Chapter. The award recognizes her longstanding advocacy work on behalf of the ACP and in defense of the patients they serve. Dr. Boursiquot, a board-certified internist, […]
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 2022, many pro-lifers thought that abortion rates were certain to plummet from that point forward. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. While surgical abortions have certainly decreased in frequency, chemical abortions (through the use of the so-called “morning after pill”) have drastically increased. Chemical abortions […]
By Richard Watson, M.D. This year I have retired from clinical practice, ending a career that began at Georgetown Medical School sixty years ago. A good friend and colleague recently wondered whether this milestone might serve as an occasion to recommend me for an upcoming Humanitarian Medical Award. My experience in the field of Combat Casualty […]
By Dr. Brooke Gensler How has the Catholic Medical Association’s vision to inspire physicians to imitate Jesus Christ impacted me? In my final days of family medicine residency, I find myself reflecting on the doors God opened and the people He placed in my path, which have shaped my formation in ways only He […]
By Dr. Maggie Hartman One of the great pleasures of the third and fourth years of medical school is rotating with physicians who vary widely in specialty, personality, office set-up, and practice size. My personal experience of these clinical years was happily influenced by my membership in the Catholic Medical Association; several physicians who I […]
By Isabella Contolini By my junior year of college I was fairly certain that God was calling me to become a Catholic physician, but I was terrified of having to do it alone. As a graduate of public school and a student at a very secular private university, I had no illusions about the […]
By Lester Ruppersberger, DO, FACOOG (Dist.) CMA Past President, 2016 I was invited to join the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) by Past President Dr. Jack Lane Sr., at a medical staff meeting for a hospital where we both were worked. I had never heard of CMA, but I was in a transitional time in […]
The Catholic Medical Association honors individual members and guilds every year at the Annual Educational Conference for their dedication and great efforts toward promoting the mission and vision of the organization. Awards were presented by President Craig Treptow and Executive Director Mario Dickerson. Episcopal Advisor Bishop James Conley presided over the Distinguished Guardian of the […]