The 78th Annual Meeting of the Delaware Academy of Medicine will be held on Friday March 7, 2008. Attendance to this event at the Hotel dupont is complimentary with your Academy of Medicine membership in good standing. To RSVP all Elizabeth Lenz at 302-733-3952, or send an email to academyofmedicine@delamed.org.

Non-member registration is $25 per per in advance, and $50 per person on the evening of the event. The Academy invites non-members to join us at this event, and to consider membership by clicking here.

The keynote speaker at this event will be the Honorable S. Ward Casscells, M.D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs for the United States of America.

A Colonel in the US Army Reserve, Dr. Casscells was mobilized in 2005 and assisted in the Army’s response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, for which he was awarded the Army Achievement Medal. For guiding the Army’s avian infl uenza preparedness, he received the Meritorious Service Medal. In 2006, he was deployed to Iraq as the liaison from Multinational Force- Iraq to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. He received the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and was made an Honorary Member of the Iraqi Medical Regiment.

Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs on April 16, 2007, Dr. Casscells served as the John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.