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Leadership Spotlight
J. Mark Michael, MD, Former Chief of Staff of the St. Vincent Department of Ophthalmology and a founding partner of 20/20 Eye Physicians of Indiana, was the 129th President of the Indianapolis Medical Society, serving the Society during 2003-2004.
Dr. Michael received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973. He completed a laboratory medicine residency, an internal medicine internship, and a second residency in ophthalmology, after which he served as a clinical instructor of ophthalmology at Washington University. In 1984, his wife, Dr. Helen B. Michael, obtained an appointment as a surgical pathologist at Indiana University Hospital, which prompted their move to Indianapolis. Soon after arriving, Dr. Michael joined the Indianapolis Medical Society and opened a solo ophthalmology practice. In 1990 he co-founded the ophthalmology group practice, 20/20 Eye Physicians of Indiana.
Dr. Michael received his board certification from the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1984. He has served on the IMS Board of of Directors since 1995 and was an ISMA Delegate from 1999 to 2008. He is on staff at St. Vincent and Clarian North Hospitals and at the Naab Road and Eagle Highlands Surgery Centers. He's a member of the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Medical Association. Drs. Mark and Helen live in Indianapolis and have two sons, Justin and Kevin.
Project Health
How Can I Help?
Despite the incredible success stories, meeting our goals and the incredible in-kind donations of care by the doctors and hospitals - ALL IS NOT ROSY. Project Health charges no fees of any kind and therefore has no income other than local grant funding to survive. Local foundations limit the number of years any organization can be funded, and Project Health has exhausted most of those resources. We need help to stay alive.
The Indianapolis Medical Society Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Any gift to the IMSF-Project Health is tax deductable. Please phone Carrie Jackson-Logsdon at (317) 262-5625 or email carrie@imsonline.org for more information on how you can help.
$500 provides durable medical equipment such as orthotics, boots, and 2 month's ostomy and urostomy supplies for those who have had surgery for colon cancer and bladder/prostate cancer.
$1,000 provides a hearing aid or diabetes testing supplies, equipment, and insulin per person for two months.
$2,000 provides two hearing aids or a CPAP breathing machine and supplies.
$5,000 provides taxi vouchers for 1 year for those patients who do not have cars and are so seriously ill that they cannot walk to a bus stop. These are our patients with multiple sclerosis, cancer, or who have just had surgery and are not allowed to drive for a month.
$10,000 provides diabetes education videos/DVD's and printed materials, plus the cost of shipping for 400 diabetic patients.
$20,000 provides medically certified interpreters to accompany non-English speaking patients to every doctor's visit, lab tests, other diagnostic testing, all the way through surgery and post-operative recovery.