Carlos Baleeiro, MD, Installed As 2021 Medical Society President Friday, February 12, 2021
Carlos Baleeiro, MD, has been installed as the 2021 president of the Chattanooga Hamilton County Medical Society. Dr. Baleeiro, a pulmonologist with CHI Memorial Lung Care Associates, succeeding past President James Haynes, MD, with UT Family Practice. Other officers are Marijka Grey, MD, president-elect, internal medicine with Common Spirit Health, and Kelly Rodney Armstrong, MD, secretary treasurer, family practice and medical director of Clinica Medicos.
Dr. Baleeiro said the Medical Society’s efforts in 2021 will continue to support the community through the COVID pandemic. “Our physicians have been actively engaged in this effort, with a number of us serving on COVID Tasks Forces and helping direct hospital initiatives,” he said. “There is no better organization than the Medical Society to help get to the other side of COVID. Vaccination is the way to get through t
Medical Societies Profoundly Concerned About Gatherings Friday, December 18, 2020
The physician leaders of the Bradley and Hamilton County Medical Societies are urging the public to exercise great caution over the holidays due to the significant prevalence of COVID in our communities.
“We are seeing a surge in positive cases throughout our communities, in part due to gatherings over Thanksgiving, and we are profoundly concerned about additional gatherings over the next few days,” Hamilton County President James Haynes, MD, said.
Paul Boerema, MD, past president of the Bradley County Medical Society, said, “The number of COVID-19 cases physicians are seeing is staggering. We have seen a massive uptick in cases in our community in the last three weeks. People are dying.”