Maricopa County Medical Society (MCMS), established in 1892 and incorporated in 1935, is a not-for-p
Maricopa County Medical Society, established in 1892 and incorporated in 1935, is a not-for-profit voluntary association of physicians which encompasses Maricopa County, the largest and most populated county in Arizona. Currently, MCMS represents over 2,600 physician voices, MDs and DOs, to ensure the quality and preservation of medicine in the county and state of Arizona for both the physicians and patients.
04/20/2026
🌟 Shaping the Future of Healthcare in the West Valley! 🌟
Maricopa County Medical Society, the City of Avondale, AZ, and PNC Bank invite you to a powerful evening of insight, collaboration, and innovation at “Healthcare Innovation & Investing in West Valley Growth.”
🗓 April 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
📍 Visitor & Conference Center
This event brings together healthcare leaders, innovators, and community partners to explore the rapid growth of the West Valley and the opportunities ahead.
🎙️ Special Remarks From:
-Mayor Mike Pineda, City of Avondale
-Desire’e Hardge, MBA, PNC Bank
-Nacchal Nachiappan, MD, MCMS President
-Cheryl Covert, MBA, City of Avondale
-Jacki Granger, MCMS CEO
💬 Featured Panel Discussion: Healthcare Innovation & Investment in the West Valley
Hear from leaders shaping the region’s healthcare future:
-Balaji Natarajan, MD
-Elaine Szeto, MBA
-Cheryl Covert, MBA
-Bianca Fabbo, MSN‑ED
🤝 Why You Should Attend:
-Connect with healthcare professionals, civic leaders, and business partners
-Learn about investment and innovation opportunities in the West Valley
-Engage in meaningful conversations about community health and growth
-Build partnerships that drive real impact
Join us as we work together to elevate healthcare in the West Valley!
04/17/2026
💫🌟MCMS Member Highlight🌟💫
Please join us in celebrating MCMS member Dr. B.J. Ho.
B.J. Ho, DO, was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His family reached the Valley of the Sun when he was only 10 years old. After attending College Preparatory (1998) and then the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix (2001), he was fortunate enough to obtain his DO degree at AZCOM at Midwestern University (2006). He then entered the OB/GYN program at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center (now Banner University - Phoenix, 2010). Staying local was important to him as he wanted to stay close to his parents and younger sister nearby.
Please join us in celebrating MCMS member Misra, DO.
Dr. Misra is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Misra has deep rooted ties to the Phoenix Community.
She attended Tempe High School and earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Arizona State University. She then proceeded to receive her osteopathic medical degree from Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. She then completed her residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson Medical Center. She would go on to complete a fellowship in acute pain and regional from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
Glenn Brown, MD, earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in New York City. He completed postgraduate training which consisted of an Internship in Internal Medicine at the Wadsworth V.A. Hospital in Los Angeles followed by a year of General Surgery residency at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, also in L.A. After working in the emergency room at a Kaiser Foundation Hospital in L.A. for 3 years, he then completed his 3 year Dermatology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, where he served as chief resident during his 3rd year.
MCMS is proud to recognize the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) for the vital role it plays in supporting the health of Arizona families and communities.
helps millions of Arizonans access preventive care, behavioral health services, and essential treatment. Their work strengthens our healthcare system, supports physicians, and ensures that care is accessible to those who need it most.
We’re grateful for AHCCCS’s dedication to improving health outcomes and advancing equity statewide.
Thank you for all you do for our Arizona community.
04/10/2026
🌟Happy Public Health Week!🌟
Maricopa County Medical Society is proud to celebrate the incredible work of the Arizona Department of Health Services . leads essential efforts that keep our communities safe — from preventing disease and supporting families to improving behavioral health and responding to statewide emergencies.
We’re grateful for the dedicated public health professionals who work every day to protect and uplift Arizonans. Your partnership strengthens our healthcare system and our communities.
Thank you, ADHS, for all you do.
04/08/2026
🕊️Happy Public Health Week!🕊️
MCMS is proud to celebrate the incredible work of the Arizona Public Health Association AZPHA . From championing health equity to supporting public health professionals and strengthening statewide policy, plays a critical role in protecting and improving the health of all Arizonans.
We’re grateful for their leadership, collaboration, and commitment to building healthier communities across our state.
Thank you, AzPHA, for everything you do.
04/08/2026
Please join us in celebrating MCMS member Dr. Anita Kohli.
Anita Kohli, MD, is a board-certified infectious disease specialist, visionary leader, and the CEO and Chief Research Officer of Arizona Clinical Trials and Arizona Liver Health. With more than 20 years of experience, she is nationally and internationally recognized for advancing clinical research and expanding access to innovative therapies across liver disease, hepatitis C treatment and cure, vaccines, obesity and metabolic disease, and beyond.
Maricopa County Medical Society is proud to celebrate the incredible work of Maricopa County Public Health. From preventing the spread of disease to supporting families, improving community wellness, and responding to emergencies, their impact reaches all of us.
We are grateful for their partnership and for the dedicated professionals who show up every day to keep healthy and strong.
Thank you for everything you do for our community.
04/05/2026
Happy Easter to our Maricopa County Medical Society physicians and families!
Today we celebrate renewal, hope, and time spent with the people who matter most.
To all the physicians who care for our community with dedication and heart — thank you.
We hope this day brings you rest, joy, and meaningful moments with loved ones.
Warm Easter wishes from all of us at the MCMS.
03/30/2026
❤️ Happy National Doctors Day!❤️
Maricopa County Medical Society is proud to celebrate the incredible physicians who care for our community every day. Your dedication, compassion, and leadership make Maricopa County healthier and stronger.
Thank you for the countless ways you serve, heal, and advocate for your patients. Today, we honor you!
03/13/2026
🚨🚨 MCMS Partnership Alert🚨🚨
Maricopa County Medical Society is excited to welcome EVEXIAS Health Solutions as our newest Premier Partner!
EVEXIAS Health Solutions is known for its integrative approach to wellness, offering advanced hormone optimization and preventive therapies that help patients live healthier, more balanced lives. Their commitment to supporting clinicians aligns with our mission to strengthen the physician community and improve care throughout Maricopa County.
We’re grateful for this partnership and look forward to the resources, education, and support it will bring to our member physicians.
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The Maricopa County Medical Society (MCMS) was founded in February of 1892. The lack of any clear medical standards for practice, the lack of licensing criteria, and the need to share medical solutions to the pressing problems of frontier healthcare, were the motivating factors for the birth of this physician organization. As the State of Arizona continued its deliberate pace during World Wars I and II, but following the end World War II, the population in the state, and in Phoenix particularly, started to grow at an astounding rate. Among the thousands who flocked to this state after World War II for the weather and the wide-open spaces were hundreds of physicians seeking to establish a practice. The need to organize the physicians into an effective group became a primary goal of physician members in the Society. In 1950 they started a search for their first full time paid staff member, which resulted in the hiring of the first Executive Secretary of the Maricopa County Medical Society.
In those days, MCMS was housed in what was then referred to as the Professional Building, a twelve-story office building on the corner of Central and Monroe. The first three floors housed the Valley National Bank and the next eight floors housed the most prominent physicians and dentists in the city with the twelfth floor being shared by the MCMS and the heating and cooling equipment for the building.
In addition to establishing the Society as a political and medical power, the board and executive leadership realized the need to establish businesses to serve the physician members of the association. Beginning in 1951, the following events concerning the Society took place:
The Bureau of Medical Economics, a licensed collection agency was established in 1951. BME was created to provide a legitimate, effective and ethical agency for physicians to use in the collection of delinquent medical accounts. This organization continues today and processes millions of dollars in delinquent accounts annually.
In 1952 the Society, Medical Library & Bureau moved from offices in the Professional Building to 2025 North Central Avenue. The organization remained at that location until 1986 when the current building at 326 East Coronado was built. The Library closed in the early 2000's.
In 1953 the Society established the first physician Telephone Answering Service, which at its peak served over 1100 physicians in the area. The MCMS was also one of the first Societies in the country to receive a license to use a special emergency radio frequency to operate its paging system. Both the answering service and the paging system were sold in the early 80's as technology made them increasingly less viable to operate.
In 1955, the Society started Round-up Magazine as a way to keep connected with its membership base. Fast forward 59 years, and Round-up has become the premier magazine for healthcare news and information not only for physician members, but to the greater medical community. Published monthly, Round-up is distributed to over 2,500 physicians, allied health professionals, health agency executives, public health officials and hospital administrators.
In 1961 the Doctors Office Placement Service was established to supply physician’s offices with qualified personnel. Since known as the Medical Society Placement Service, this organization, after 49 years of operation, closed on December 31, 2009. At its peak, it was one of the largest licensed placement agencies dealing solely with medical placement in Maricopa County.
In 1962 the Southwestern Preparatory School was founded to train staff for physician offices, hospitals and other medical facilities. This school for medical assistants graduated thousands of students over the years and was sold in 1987, allowing the Society to concentrate on other functions of more direct interest to physicians.
In 1969 the Maricopa County Medical Society incorporated the Maricopa Foundation For Medical Care to offer a fee-for-service, competitive healthcare delivery system to employees in Maricopa County. This organization has grown as a separate corporation with its own physician Board of Trustees from 800 physician members in 1970, to over 6000 physicians in 2000, and over 14,000 in 2012. As a managed care system the Foundation endorses plans which cover over a quarter of million Arizonans throughout the state. In December 1994 the Foundation purchased a building on Third Street to house its ever-growing divisions. In 1998 the Foundation’s name was changed to Arizona Foundation for Medical Care reflecting the fact that coverage and membership now spanned the entire state of Arizona.
In 1987 the Society established the Greater Arizona Centralized Credentialing Program (GACCP) to offer a systemized approach to physician credential verification. This program was designed to serve all the hospitals and healthcare facilities in the state, as well as the managed care programs who wish to credential their physicians throughout the area. Currently GACCP has service contracts with over a hundred hospitals, managed care organizations and other facilities.
In addition to the above businesses, MCMS has been active in such worthwhile medical pursuits as coordinating the first mass polio immunization project in the United States in 1962 called Sabin Oral Sundays. In conjunction with the state medical association, ArMA, MCMS sponsored the Medical Liability Insurance Crisis Rally on October 21, 2004.
The Society has also been instrumental in assisting with the development of free clinics for the medically indigent and has staffed Head Start Health Fairs where over 300 physicians volunteer their time to perform physicals on more than 20,000 children. MCMS has also been influential in legislative issues on behalf of physicians. The Society, in conjunction with ArMA, helped pass House Bill 2600 and lobbied for physicians with a limited license to be able to practice medicine in Arizona.
To aid the community and help attract patients to our physician members, the Society offers a free telephone and web-based physician referral service to connect the patient with a physician that best meets their medical needs.
