Indianapolis Medical Society

Paula A. Hall, MD, a Family Practice physician, was the 127th President of the Indianapolis Medical Society, serving in that capacity in 2000. Dr. Hall is engaged in the full-time practice of medicine and divides her time between offices in Franklin and Greenfield. She has limited her practice to proctology and lower endoscopy. Remembering the tenant of teaching your fellow physicians, she has preceptored three other family physicians and they now have privileges and are performing colonoscopies at their own hospitals.

She has been very active throughout her career by holding offices in, not only the IMS, the IMS Foundation but also the Indiana State Medical Association. In the past, she also served an Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association.

She received her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1984 and completed her Residency at Methodist Hospital in 1987. Dr. Hall resides in Indianapolis with her husband, Michael Raymond, and their two children, Mike and Jennifer.

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Project Health

Success Stories

There are some amazing success stories of people who just needed help to get healthy. Many have found better jobs WITH health insurance benefits. Project Health volunteer physicians have saved the lives of several people who were just days or weeks away from dying without surgery.

James McConkey

James McConkey went from being a complete stranger, to getting an MRI, followed by brain surgery in one day. Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD, from the Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group found not one, but two egg-sized tumors in the frontal lobe of James' brain which would have been fatal had there been a delay in treatment. "Everyone treated me like I was the most important person on earth", says James. "I can't tell you what it means to a person when you are uninsured, have a life-threatening emergency and don't know where to turn. A millionaire wouldn't have been treated any better or faster."

Rosa Cozzarelli

Rosa Cozzarelli was going blind because of a corneal defect called Fuch's Dystrophy. Michael Behforouz, MD, volunteered to do a corneal transplant, St. Vincent Hospital donated all of their services; Northside Anesthesiology donated their services. The Lion's Eye Bank and Prevent Blindness Indiana secured the cornea, and the country's first totally-donated corneal transplant was performed here in Indianapolis. The story made CNN Headline News that evening. Rosa now lives independently.

Hallie Day

Hallie Day's ophthalmologist suspected she had multiple sclerosis because of the breakdown of protein sheaths that protect the nerves in her eyes. JWM Neurology confirmed this. The drugs she needed to slow down the progression of MS cost $24,000/year. Project Health helped Hallie apply to Rx for Indiana and now she receives her needed medications FREE. "I had lost my job because I missed work so often. So I had no job, no money, no health insurance and no hope until Project Health came to the rescue," says Hallie. "Hallie is one of our favorite patients," says John Miller, MD, her family doctor, "because despite all of her problems - she has the best attitude of anybody I've ever seen."

Blanca Garcia

Blanca Garcia, a divorced mother of 2 had a congenital hole in her heart which just kept getting worse and worse, threatening her life. She had no pulses from her groin down to her toes. Project Health phoned CorVasc and David Heimansohn, MD scheduled her for an appointment in his office at 7 a.m. the next day - before office hours. She had open heart surgery to repair the hole in her heart. Now Blanca says for the first time in her life she can take a deep breath, her hands and feet are no longer cold and blue, and she has plenty of energy to get through her workday and take care of her two boys.