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PRESIDENT’S PAGE
DOROTHY M. MOORE, MD
MSD President Dorothy M. Moore, MD is an Ophthalmologist who practices at Delaware Eye MD Associates in Wilmington.
Home Sweet Home
Did You Know...?
“Home, Sweet, Home,” “Home is where the Heart is.” Those sayings have kind of a nice ring to them. Why, you may ask, am I writing about “Home.” Well, next month, May 2016, marks the sixth anniversary of when MSD had our very own place to call home. Many of you will fondly remember our many years at the grand old Delaware Academy of Medicine building on Lovering Avenue in Wilmington. The black wrought
iron fence, the stately brick building, some boisterous House of Delegates committee meetings in the basement conference rooms....ah, the good old days. We shared that site with the Delaware Academy of Medicine from approximately 1959 to 2001. Prior to
Our next “Home” for nine years was on Continental Drive in Newark in more modern space – more corporate style accommodations for our busy Society. In mid-2000, we began the search for our permanent place to call home. Other properties were considered, and we Newark. Architects were hired, plans were made, and the construction began
and culminated in the dedication of our modern headquarters on October 16, 2010.
We recently held another dedication at MSD. The “William H. Duncan, MD Center for Delaware Medical History” was dedicated in an evening ceremony on February 20, 2016. When the Medical Society was seeking its new location, a small group of visionary leaders had the forethought to realize that the history
of medicine that took place right here
in Delaware needed to be preserved. Integral to this was the contributions
by Delaware’s early physicians. The Medical Society had a responsibility
to make that happen. With that, the
search for our permanent home was to include opportunity for the creation of
a repository for medical history here in Delaware. There are other sources for historical data on the practice of medicine scattered throughout Delaware in our state historical societies, the Delaware Historical Society, the Delaware Academy of Medicine, and other archives. However, the Society’s goal was to bring as much information as possible in one central location – here at MSD. Now, housed in the William H. Duncan, MD Center for Delaware Medical History is Dr. Duncan’s vast collection of Delaware Military Medical History and his research for
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