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On July 11, 2005, a new branch of the CMSA formed in Texas:

Greetings from Galveston Island, Texas! We are home to the newest chapter of the Catholic Medical Students' Association at the University of Texas Medical Branch. As the state's first medical school, it is fitting that we also are the first CMSA organization in Texas. Formed as an outreach of our local Newman Center, CMSA at UTMB seeks to foster education and fellowship among students studying medicine by hosting lunchtime lectures and evening programs. We are also co-sponsoring our local White Mass and various liturgical programs at churches in our community, as well as at the Galveston Newman Center. We have had extraordinary success in our recruitment efforts and are growing by leaps and bounds. We truly have been blessed.

     - Matthew Ramirez, MSII

Link: CMSA in Galveston, Texas





On March 30, 2004, the Catholic Medical Students' Association, James Patrick McFadden writing, submitted a brief, amicus curiae, on behalf of Mr. Ernest Workman Jr. in his petition before the Benefits Review Board of the United States Department of Labor. The Catholic Medical Students' Association submitted its brief in response to the Benefits Review Board's order setting oral argument to consider whether the rulemaking record contains substantial evidence that pneumoconiosis is a progressive and latent disease.

The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, and the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago are all affiliated with the Black Lung Clinics Program at Cook County Hospital, an internationally acclaimed public teaching hospital where many miners are treated for pulmonary impairments that were caused or aggravated by their work-related exposure to respirable coal dust. The Catholic Medical Students believe in social justice, compassion, and ethics in the practice of medicine. For many working men and women, access to health care is a function of access to legal entitlements enabling them to purchase such care.

The Catholic Medical Students believe that the economy exists to promote the health and welfare of the individual, and thus wish to ensure that the nation's federal program for compensating coal miners suffering from work-related pulmonary disability is administered on the basis of sound medical data and evidence.



Catholic Medical Students Association
P.O. Box 214
Oak Park, Illinois 60603

Tel: (312) 948 - 2506
FAX: (312) 948-2509
E-Mail: info@cathmsa.org


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