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Environmental and Public Health Update: Navigating PFAS, Global Pathogens, and Local Action

June 19, 2026

Kisha N. Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP Health Officer, Montgomery County, Maryland First, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to…

Maryland’s Chronic Disease Benchmarks: Where the Gaps Are and What Physicians Can Do

June 19, 2026

Maryland’s 2026 State Health Improvement Plan sets specific, measurable targets for five priority health areas through 2029. The chronic disease…

Women in Medicine Interest Survey

June 13, 2026

MCMS is planning ahead for our Women in Medicine programming, and before we lock anything in, we want to hear…

June is Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Healthcare Resources

June 12, 2026

LGBTQ+ Health Resources in Montgomery County: A Physician’s Guide Montgomery County has more LGBTQ+ residents per capita than most Maryland…

Community Starts with an Invitation

June 4, 2026

James Bryant, MCMS Executive Director One of my favorite stories about building community comes from a pathologist in California who enjoyed birdwatching.…

Polycystic ovary syndrome is more than ovarian

May 28, 2026

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, M.D. Montgomery Fertility Center The name polycystic ovary syndrome may have unintentionally narrowed how medicine understood one of…

Estrogen-Dopamine Connection in ADHD

May 28, 2026

Nadia Sirdar, M.D., MPH Bethesda Modern Primary Care May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I want to share something that…

The View From The Exam Room

May 28, 2026

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…

Hantavirus and the Andes Virus Outbreak

May 12, 2026

What Maryland Physicians Need to Know An active multi-country outbreak of Andes virus, the only hantavirus strain capable of person-to-person…

History of MCMS Presidents

March 6, 2026

Olney Manor, home of Charles Farquhar, M.D., MCMS President in 1908. Montgomery County Medical Society has been blessed with over…