North Carolina Medical Society Alliance

Join us

for the NCMSA Annual Meeting

on May 13, 2025 in Greensboro

Click here for details and to register

Christine Ringuette, Mustard Seed Community Health Executive Director - Keynote Address

Ron Jaggers, AMA Alliance President-Elect - Morning Session and Officer Installation

Sherri Castle, Host of The Key Ingredient on PBS - Hubbard Luncheon Speaker

National Doctors' Day 2025: Honor the Commitment and Service of Physicians

We invite you to recognize physicians and physicians in training by donating in their honor or memory to your NCMSA Health Education Opportunity Fund. A donation for Doctors’ Day will help the NCMS Alliance advance the health of all North Carolinians.

Celebrate all physicians but especially those who took that extra time to answer your questions or made a lasting impression on you. Provide us with the email and/or postal mail addresses of honorees and families of memorials so we can notify them of your donation. Honorees and memorials will also be recognized online and in the fall Tarheel Tandem.

On the first Doctors’ Day, March 30, 1933, a physician’s spouse in Barrow County, Georgia sent cards to all the doctors she knew and placed red carnations on the graves of those deceased. Doctors’ Day continues to be an opportunity to recognize physicians and their contributions andcommitment to medicine and service in their communities.

You may make your donation online by April 30 at https://ncmsalliance.org/Donate. If you are giving in honor or memory of someone, please let us know in the comment section. Also, you may mail a note and check payable to the NCMS Alliance, 3739 National Drive, Suite 202, Raleigh, NC 27612, postmarked by April 30.

The program "Overwork, Stress, Depression: Where Do the Healers Go for Help?", sponsored by NCMSA and the New Hanover Pender County Medical Society and presented by Betsy Gall and NCPHP, was well-attended and generated thoughtful heartfelt discussion.

2024 Annual Meeting and Physician Suicide Awareness Event

May 15-16, 2024

Upcoming Walks

(Photo courtesy of Shutterstock)

The NCMS Alliance Kicks Off. . . . . . Let ’s Walk Together

Let's walk and connect with each other making friends along the way. If the location allows, bring your family along.
We will be walking in parks and at museums, as well as forming teams for organized charity walks.
Upcoming walks will be posted on this website.
If you would like to walk together in the

Triangle area: Our team name is NCMSA - WCMSA - W5
Greensboro area: Our team name is NCMSA - GGMSA

NCMS Alliance Centennial Celebration and 100th Annual Meeting

April 27-28, 2023

Greensboro, NC

If you weren't able to attend, please enjoy the pictures below.

Click here to see the full proclamation

for our Centennial Celebration

Click here to see our event sponsors

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In the News.....

Historical Highlights
by the Decade

1923 - 2023

Celebrating 100 years

In the Beginning....

Looking Back at the 1930s....

Reviewing the 1940s...

1950s Bring Continued Growth...

A Look Back at the 1960s...

The 1970s...

Embracing Change in the 1980s

Focusing on the 1990s

Entering the 21st Century - the 2000s

NCMSA Commits $50,000 to Charitable Clinics across the State

The board of directors approved to support the North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NCAFCC) for the calendar year 2022 with a donation of $50,000 to purchase point of care HbA1C machines used in the diagnosis and screening of diabetes and prediabetes as well as to monitor blood sugar levels. These funds also purchased supplies needed to run these tests. With this commitment, the NCMSA reached patients in all parts of the state who struggle with access to health care. Click here to see a map of the clinics supported by our donation.

Click here to link to an interactive map on the NCAFCC website to find the clinics closes to you where you can volunteer as an individual or as a group.

We also encourage you to donate to the Health Education Opportunity Fund on our website to help us support efforts to improve the health of North Carolinians.

Click here to read the full article in the Fall Tarheel Tandem.

Dear Members and Fellow NC Citizens:

I am happy to take the role of president of the North Carolina Medical Society Alliance for a second term. I believe in our mission—that we are dedicated to advancing the health of North Carolinians through advocacy and action—and am energized to work with our dedicated and talented board to further that mission. Our focus continues to be mental health. One area we are concentrating on is conveying to healthcare practitioners that there is help for them when they are struggling with the stress of the job. This is because rates of physician suicide and burnout are rising.

Recently we have also focused on how we can assist those practicing rural medicine and working in our state’s charitable clinics. However, in 2024-2025, we will turn our efforts to our biggest challenge yet. As a board we must decide how to reshape the North Carolina Medical Society Alliance to make full use of our resources and be most effective in advancing the health of all North Carolinians and supporting families of those who keep North Carolina healthy. We are holding strategic planning sessions and hope to redesign the Alliance to make a greater impact in the state. If you are a member, please watch toward the end of this Alliance year as we update everyone on proposed changes. If you are not a member, we hope you will join us. We value your support.

Here's to good health!

Kirby Sheridan

2024-2025 President

he NCMSA Board thanks you for keeping our organization active not only by your valuable contribution but your continued support for our community. An organization that's relevant and valued by their members shares three common characters: tough-minded optimism, staying power and belief in a mission above all.

Our Alliance goals of yesterday remain valid today which are to support physicians and encourage fellowship among our members as well as to support each other in times of joy and adversity and reach out to potential members by offering programs and volunteer opportunities to all members.

Through our support of the N.C. Association of Free and Charitable Clinics and encouraging our members to participate in the local NCAFCC projects, we will continue our efforts to improve access to health care especially in rural areas of North Carolina.

This year exciting and informative programs will be offered to members via Zoom.

Watch your emails and our website for more information. Keep up with other members through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NCMSAlliance to join our private Facebook group so we can communicate easily.

I look forward to connecting with you. Please renew or join with your new membership.

With Regards,

Meeti Nigam, President 2022-23

County Economic Snapshots

Click here to look at economic snapshots from the NC Justice Center for North Carolina as a whole or scroll down the page to select individual counties to download a PDF to see how each is doing with health services, making sure everyone can make ends meet and how well each is removing structural barriers to equity.