Member Perspective | Montgomery County Medical Society (MD)

Why Dr. Rockower Believes Every Physician Is in Politics

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Stephen J. Rockower, M.D., FAAOS 169th President of MedChi I have been involved with the medical society since the 1980s. As a young doc, newly in practice, our county medical society was looking for authors for their quarterly magazine. It didn’t have to be medical, so I wrote nerdy, computer related things and office management…

Meet Incoming MCMS President, Sheri Hamersley, M.D., FACOG

Sheri Hamersley, M.D., FACOG, is a board-certified perinatologist and the founder and President of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates of Maryland (MFMofMD), a subspecialty practice in Rockville, Maryland dedicated to the care of high-risk pregnancies. Board certified in both Obstetrics & Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Hamersley has been…

Estrogen-Dopamine Connection in ADHD

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Nadia Sirdar, M.D., MPH Bethesda Modern Primary Care May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I want to share something that rarely gets identified correctly in a standard care visit: ADHD that unmasks during perimenopause. Estrogen directly supports dopamine activity in the brain. As estrogen drops during perimenopause, the brain that has been quietly managing ADHD…

The View From The Exam Room

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Harita Raja, M.D. Bethesda Women’s Mental Health In my practice, I’m seeing more women who don’t “look” like they’re struggling because by most external measures, they’re not. They’re working efficiently, caregiving with a smile, and showing up for their children. Underneath that, though, there’s a steady hum of anxiety, poor sleep, irritability and/or physical symptoms that…