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Leadership Spotlight
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 IU Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis) in 1987. Dr. Hall resides in Indianapolis with her husband, Michael Raymond, and their two children, Mike and Jennifer.
Members Spotlight
Marc E. Duerden, MD
Marc E. Duerden, MD, was the 130th President of the Indianapolis Medical Society. Marc E. Duerden, MD, a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; directing much of his attention to Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, has been with Rehabilitation Associates of Indiana since 1993. He is also a clinical associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Duerden received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1989 and served his internship at St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center in Indianapolis, and residency at Northwestern University School of Medicine Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Dr. Duerden is board certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a subspecialty board certification in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine and certified with the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. He is on the hospital staff of Community Hospital and Indiana University Medical Center, and on the consulting hospital staff of many of the other hospitals in the area. His professional activities include being a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Exam Question Writer and guest oral examiner for the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a manuscript reviewer for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a current and former member of numerous committees. Dr. Duerden is active in community service with the Boy Scouts of America and Badges without Borders. He is a prolific author with many articles, presentations and honors to his credit.